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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The law is not as strict as Americans tend to think, but then, what matters is what they think so it might be a factor. It is allowed to use it in art, and a movie is considered art as long as it isn't propaganda. And Captain America is hardly pro-Nazi propaganda.
edited 28th Feb '18 3:45:49 PM by Swanpride
This. That No-Swastika rule only applies to games, because they aren’t considers art. The German versions of the Indian Jones movies or Inglorious Bastarads have everything: Nazis, swastikas, Hitler… Yes even “Captain Eagleman vs The Nazi Brain Eaters from Outer Space” can show swastikas and Alien Hitler. Afterall, art is in the eye of the beholder.
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edited 28th Feb '18 6:34:57 PM by TheAirman
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyOkay maybe I'm reading too much into things but I have an issue with saying Cap not explicitly fighting Nazis is problematic. Yes the Nazis are evil and did bad shit but it's not like they're the only antagonistic force among the Axis. If he had been fighting Japan or something it wouldn't necessarily imply they're the true enemy and the Nazis are just a side villain. It just means he focused on a specific group and targeted them.
Your comparison isn't entirely accurate. If he was in the Pacific Theater not fighting the Japanese, it would be just as problematic as him being in the European Theater not fighting Nazis.
Which part of WWII he's at matters.
edited 28th Feb '18 7:30:56 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.How so? Transporting him from one theater to another shouldn't be too huge of an ordeal. Even if you count the commandos that's only a handful of people you'd need to move. I don't see why him fighting a specific group means that group is the biggest threat. Logically he'd fight where he's needed most.
Yeah it's by Shaun, he's a big leftist You Tuber who debunks a lot of alt right bullshit. He's good.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?One of T'Challa's last lines in the film is "Great men build bridges and foolish ones build borders."
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Sort of. Spoilers for the film: T'Challa starts out the film as essentially wanting to preserve the status quo, mostly because he's still unsure of himself and what kind of king he wants to be. However by the end of the movie he realizes that the isolationism of Wakanda is wrong and opens the country up to the rest of the world.
I think he's on the fence - Nakia wants to help the rest of the world, W'Kabi doesn't (though wouldn't mind going out and forcibly "cleaning things up"), and T'Challa seems kind of split, preferring to just stay isolated. The events of the movie push him over to Nakia's view of things, but it's perfectly possible that he might have come around to that point of view anyway.
edited 28th Feb '18 9:22:23 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!And economic. A part of the reason for why there's so much Mexican immigration to the US is NAFTA and US corn subsidies making it much harder for Mexican farmers to earn a living. (Short version: US gives massive subsidies to corn farmers, making their corn very cheap, allowing them to dump it on other countries, and making small farmers in other countries unable to earn enough to support their families because they're being undersold by the US.)
Hydra is a Nazi organization or at the very least they started that way until after World War II and they work for the Nazis.
Fighting Hydra during WW II is the same as fighting Nazis because they are Nazis working for Hitler.
I mean it's not like everyone in the German army held the same beliefs as Hitler but they fought for him too. It wouldn't be controversial to call the German army a Nazi army.
HYDRA didn't fight for the Nazis, the movie itself points that out. Red Skull uses them for his own ends, and then discards them. By about a third of the way through the film, they are no longer affiliated with Germany or the Nazi Party.
"My apologies Doctor, but we both knew that HYDRA could grow no further in Hitler's shadow."
Boom, connections to Nazis DONE right then and there. And if Indiana Jones, and the X-Men movies, and even the freaking Justice League Cartoon from the early 2000's could show actual Nazis, then I find the argument that "well it was totally ok to cut the Nazis out of WWII in the film," entirely unconvincing.
As for Wakanda, another scene that shows that the isolationism is portrayed as wrong is T'Challa's second scene with his father and the previous Black Panther's. He practically screams at his father (about what he did with Killmonger) "You were wrong," and then he turns to the others and goes "You were ALL wrong" (about shutting Wakanda off from the outside world.

We knew violence against Jews was ramping up starting in the late 1930s. We turned away a ship full of Jewish kids at the US border/harbor.
I think it would be a powerful acknowledgment that they share a time period, but had vastly different experiences. And that America doesn’t always get it right/get it right very fast.