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erpowers

(9,350 posts)
12. No
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 06:26 PM
Mar 2013

There have been many movies in which the United States of America has been attacked under white Presidents. In the movie Air Force One Harrison Ford played the role of the President as Air Force One was attacked by terrorists. In the movie Independence Day another white actor played the role of President as aliens attacked the United States of America and the world. In the G.I. Joe movie the President is white.

It seems movies in which the United States of America is attacked are popular. At least screenwriters love to write those types of scripts. In the case of Olympus Has Fallen the writers probably went with an acting black President because the current U.S. President is black and they did not want people to ask or complain about the fact that the President in the movie was white while the actual President is black.

This comes on the heels of the History Channel kerfuffle... MinM Mar 2013 #1
I had reservations JustAnotherGen Mar 2013 #2
Dennis Haysbert was the President in "24" on FOX ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2013 #6
Well of course JustAnotherGen Mar 2013 #7
Just the usual lack of imaginagion in Hollywood, I would think. bemildred Mar 2013 #3
sometimes a movie is just a movie..... bowens43 Mar 2013 #4
There's a reason the CIA, DoD, Secret Service... MinM Mar 2013 #9
Alex Cox on John Ford's 'The Searchers' MinM Mar 2013 #10
Wait....Jamie Foxx is the president??? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2013 #5
Oh wow! JustAnotherGen Mar 2013 #8
There's a perverse pleasure cbrer Mar 2013 #11
No erpowers Mar 2013 #12
Why is the White House under siege in so many movies? MinM Apr 2013 #13
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