The Interview (film)
 The Interview (film)  (film, propaganda)   | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fiction |
| Author(s) | Unknown |
| Producer(s) | James Weaver, Columbia Pictures, LStar Capital, Sony Pictures |
| Subjects | North Korea |
| Local copy | Broken Link: [[{{{local}}}]] |
The Interview is a 2014 Hollywood film produced and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The screenplay was written by Dan Sterling, based on a story he co-wrote with Rogen and Goldberg. The film stars Rogen and James Franco as journalists who set up an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Randall Park), and are then recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. The film is inspired by a 2012 Vice documentary.
The movie was also used as the base for a [psy-op]] where North Korea was accused of hacking Sony Pictures to stop it from being distributed.
Written by CIA
Christine Hong, professor at University of California at Santa Cruz and an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, described how the US deep state actively took part in making the movie:
If you actually look at what the Sony executives did, they consulted very closely with the State Department, which actually gave the executives a green light with regard to the death scene. And they also consulted with a RAND North Korea watcher, a man named Bruce Bennett, who basically has espoused in thesis that the way to bring down the North Korean government is to assassinate the leadership. And he actually stated, in consulting with Sony about this film, that this film, in terms of the South Korean market, as well as its infiltration by defector balloon-dropping organizations into North Korea, could possibly get the wheels of a kind of regime change plot into motion. So, in this instance, fiction and reality have a sort of mirroring relationship to each other.[1]
Racist topes
In his review, Tim Shorrock pointed out how the movie "used every racist image and trope that Rogen could dream up, from the sing-songy caricatures of Asian speech that were a film staple in the 1940s and ’50s, to the concept that Koreans are either robotic slaves (like Kim’s security guards) or sex-starved submissives who crave American men (like Sook, the 'elite' aide to Kim who falls for the Rogen character)."[2]
