The American Film Industry is one of the biggest in the world and so are the American war expenses.
Since the Second World War, the United states has been the biggest spender of public and private money on war and military related expenses. The expanse of NATO forces, contribution in the UNPKF, joint drills with forces all over the world and the immense technological leaps taken in the field of defense are all expensive and expansive activities.
Post the World War II, USA has been directly or indirectly involved in every major global conflict ranging from the Korean war, Vietnam war, Guerrilla actions in South America, Afghanistan,Iraq, Libya, Indo-Pak wars and many more. Besides these, the arms race and opposition of Communism during the 30-40 year long Cold War proved to the world, how immensely the American economy was involved in war expenses. Even the space explorations had a defense angle in their spending.
But the Capitalist USA made a lot of money with war too. Directly, by selling and outsourcing military equipment and services, indirectly by creating award winning content for Hollywood. There are innumerable films, TV series and documentaries that came out of USA with a clear back-drop of USA's military and secret service engagements world-wide. Some were realistic and celebrated American heroes, some partly fictional and some completely fictional and yet with a back-drop of some or the other military engagement USA has had. The communist USSR could not 'Capitalize' on the same means of recovering war debts!!!!
Some of the highest grossing war movies from USA are: (Box office collections in USA Only)
- American Sniper - $547 million
- Saving Private Ryan - $481 million
- 300 - $456 million
- Pearl Harbor - $449 million
- Schindler's List - $321 million
- Inglorious Basterds - $321 million
- Rambo first blood part II - $300 million
- Platoon - $138 million
- Lone Survivor - $125 million
These are conservative domestic USA figures. International releases, VHS, DVD sales, Television rights and associated incomes are not even accounted in these figures.
And these were serious war movies. There were spoofs, comedies, animations and what not that made huge profits. The idea of war and the enormous content USA has been generating for the last 75 years has benefited a lot of creative people. In my own lifetime I would have seen 7-10 movies just based on the Vietnam war. Even one of my favorites - 'We were soldiers', is based on the same war.
Television is another big thing that has taken clue from the military involvements of the country. A size-able number of TV series and documentaries have been released based on America's military engagements.
I am no one to clarify whether USA's involvement in a certain war or conflict was justified or not. But one thing I can certainly say that they have not been at loss at all. Many veteran soldiers wrote books or articles based on which films or documentaries were made. They too were able to earn royalties and on the cinematic adaptation.
Somehow, this idea sounded interesting to me that going into wars did create a lot of employment and generated a lot of wealth within USA even outside the defense sector. Rather, apart from weapon and gear manufacturers, probably movie makers made the most money. Economically it wasn't a bad deal.
Still thinking?????????
Since the Second World War, the United states has been the biggest spender of public and private money on war and military related expenses. The expanse of NATO forces, contribution in the UNPKF, joint drills with forces all over the world and the immense technological leaps taken in the field of defense are all expensive and expansive activities.
Post the World War II, USA has been directly or indirectly involved in every major global conflict ranging from the Korean war, Vietnam war, Guerrilla actions in South America, Afghanistan,Iraq, Libya, Indo-Pak wars and many more. Besides these, the arms race and opposition of Communism during the 30-40 year long Cold War proved to the world, how immensely the American economy was involved in war expenses. Even the space explorations had a defense angle in their spending.
But the Capitalist USA made a lot of money with war too. Directly, by selling and outsourcing military equipment and services, indirectly by creating award winning content for Hollywood. There are innumerable films, TV series and documentaries that came out of USA with a clear back-drop of USA's military and secret service engagements world-wide. Some were realistic and celebrated American heroes, some partly fictional and some completely fictional and yet with a back-drop of some or the other military engagement USA has had. The communist USSR could not 'Capitalize' on the same means of recovering war debts!!!!
Some of the highest grossing war movies from USA are: (Box office collections in USA Only)
- American Sniper - $547 million
- Saving Private Ryan - $481 million
- 300 - $456 million
- Pearl Harbor - $449 million
- Schindler's List - $321 million
- Inglorious Basterds - $321 million
- Rambo first blood part II - $300 million
- Platoon - $138 million
- Lone Survivor - $125 million
These are conservative domestic USA figures. International releases, VHS, DVD sales, Television rights and associated incomes are not even accounted in these figures.
And these were serious war movies. There were spoofs, comedies, animations and what not that made huge profits. The idea of war and the enormous content USA has been generating for the last 75 years has benefited a lot of creative people. In my own lifetime I would have seen 7-10 movies just based on the Vietnam war. Even one of my favorites - 'We were soldiers', is based on the same war.
Television is another big thing that has taken clue from the military involvements of the country. A size-able number of TV series and documentaries have been released based on America's military engagements.
I am no one to clarify whether USA's involvement in a certain war or conflict was justified or not. But one thing I can certainly say that they have not been at loss at all. Many veteran soldiers wrote books or articles based on which films or documentaries were made. They too were able to earn royalties and on the cinematic adaptation.
Somehow, this idea sounded interesting to me that going into wars did create a lot of employment and generated a lot of wealth within USA even outside the defense sector. Rather, apart from weapon and gear manufacturers, probably movie makers made the most money. Economically it wasn't a bad deal.
Still thinking?????????
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