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Eye in the Sky Trailer Breakdown: Drone Warfare as Hollywood Propaganda
from The Pilot! · #15
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4 minTim and Ray dissect the trailer for the film Eye in the Sky, mocking its premise that the military agonizes over collateral damage from drone strikes, and riff on how casually real-world drone strikes actually happen versus how the public perceives drones as toys.
- 28:01Tim says movie trailers reveal what Hollywood thinks Americans will accept as meaningful plots.
- 28:23Eye in the Sky is a drone-strike thriller where the moral crux is whether to kill innocent civilians and a goat to hit a terrorist target.
- 30:26The entire film depends on viewers believing there's genuine national security debate about killing a couple of kids playing soccer—something the U.S. does routinely anyway.
- 30:42Tim imagines what the real movie would sound like: military operators casually deciding to drop the drone and clean up a mistake later.
- 31:07Tim watches the theater audience buying the premise as real ethical dilemma and notes how people only recently became aware of drones.
- 31:24Most people think military drones are toy-sized devices like the ones people fly in parks, because consumer drones are small and fun.
- 31:49Nobody understands that actual military drones carry full missiles and can decimate entire ecosystems, while consumer drones have made the technology seem playful and harmless.
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