DAVID L. ROBB

Esta obra inédita nos desvela el secreto mejor guardado de Hollywood, una colaboración encubierta, de más de cincuenta años, entre la meca del cinbe y el ejército. Basándose en documentos del Pentágono y en entrevistas con numerosos directores de cine y oficiales del ejercito, su autor, David L. Robb, revela como numerosas peliculas y series televisivas de exito internacional (Top Gun, Lassie, Elegidos para la gloria... la lista es extensa) han sido modeladas, expurgadas y censuradas oir el Pentagono.

La precuela oficial de la teleserie de Netflix, escrita por el showrunner Kevin Smith y con dibujo de Mindy Lee (Crimson Lotus). Tras un ataque de Orlax contra su padre, el Rey Randor, He-Man descubre que la criatura esta ligada con el origen de la Espada de Poder. Para salvar Randor, He-Man debe emprender un viaje que le llevara a chocar contra Skeletor y Evil-Lyn, mientras contempla a Teela asumir un poderoso legado. Con portadas de Stjepan Sejic e ilustraciones de Mike Mignola, Walt Simonson, Bill Sienkiewicz y muchos mas.

The only thing Hollywood likes more than a good movie is a good deal. For more than fifty years producers and directors of war and action movies have been getting a great deal from Americas armed forces by receiving access to billions of dollars worth of military equipment and personnel for little or no cost. Although this arrangement considerably lowers a films budget, the cost in terms of intellectual freedom can be quite steep. In exchange for access to sophisticated military hardware and expertise, filmmakers must agree to censorship from the Pentagon.As veteran Hollywood journalist David L. Robb shows in this revealing insiders look into Hollywoods "dirtiest little secret," the final product that moviegoers see at the theater is often not just what the director intends but also what the powers-that-be in the military want to project about Americas armed forces. Sometimes the censor demands removal of just a few words; other times whole scenes must be scrapped or completely revised. What happens if a director refuses the requested changes? Robb quotes a Pentagon spokesman: "Well Im taking my toys and Im going home. Im taking my tanks and my troops and my location, and Im going home." That can be quite a persuasive threat to a filmmaker trying to keep his movie within budget.Robb takes us behind the scenes during the making of many well-known movies. From The Right Stuff to Top Gun and even Lassie, the list of movies in which the Pentagon got its way is very long. Only when a director is determined to spend more money than necessary to make his own movie without interference, as in the case of Oliver Stone in the creation of Platoon or Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now, is a film released that presents the directors unalloyed vision.For anyone who loves movies and cares about freedom of expression, Operation Hollywood is an engrossing, shocking, and very entertaining book.