More from the cultural sewer we call Hollywood. They are so last year decade over.
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: G.I. Joe was just a toy, wasn't he? hat tip etertz
Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe's -- well, "G.I." -- identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels." The IGN Entertainment news site reports Paramount is considering replacing our "real American hero" with "Action Man," member of an
"international operations team."
Paramount will simply turn Joe's name into an acronym.
The show biz newspaper Variety reports: "G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer."
Well, thank goodness the villain -- no need to offend anyone by making our villains Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days, though apparently Presbyterians who talk like Scottie on "Star Trek" are still OK -- is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believe arms dealing itself is evil.
(Just for the record, what did the quintessential American hero, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine in "Casablanca," do before he opened his eponymous cafe? Yep: gun-runner.)
Yeah, nothing like watching those fierce Belgian soldiers kick ass and take names. Hmm.
Well, at least they serve an excellent breakfast buffet.
Posted by: clyde | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 06:52 PM
GI once meant, "Government Issue". It does mean "gastrointestinal" in medical circles.
"Global Integrated"??? Geez, that means he/she/it is controlled by the United Nations!!!
How do you utterly terrify a bunch of Third World people?? Easy. Tell 'em UN Peacekeepers are coming!! There's more truth than fiction to that one, folks.
Posted by: Thomas Carney | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 09:54 PM