Topic > How Globalization Has Influenced Hollywood - 904

Globalization is a hotly debated issue in today's world. Rarely does a conversation about the world continue without including globalization. The attraction of globalization has not gone beyond the tentacles of Hollywood, which has taken advantage of all the burning issues that have emerged from globalization to maximize its profits. Topics such as blood diamonds, global warming, and other cultures' ethnocentrism toward the United States have become popular subjects for multimillion-dollar films produced by Hollywood. Hollywood. Movies like Rocky IV which depicts the Cold War in relation to a boxing match, this is just a movie that was used as a world political issue for financial gain. This article will highlight how Hollywood uses political issues in their films to increase their profits. Hollywood has also used "terrorist actions, both state and non-state, which have spread with frequency and destructive power since the 1960s, the subject has become an enduring source of narratives, fantasies and myths that have contributed to the cinema of Hollywood with its familiar emphasis on international intrigue, exotic settings, graphic violence and demonization of foreign threats is the United States, where gun culture, civic violence, crime and a thriving war economy permeate the landscape." (Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard) Hollywood's use of globalization issues to increase sales has been a trend since the dawn of cinema. Even after the September 11 attacks on the United States, Hollywood did not stop pursuing capital gain by exploiting the vulnerability of the United States to make films. “Al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon…half of paper…one.” (Guggenheim Productions) Although given a Hollywood touch with actors like Leonardo Dicaprio, this film is not very fantasy as it brings to light the importance of government in Africa and the need for help for its citizens. Films like the ones mentioned above were used to create revenue for mighty Hollywood, but along the way they brought awareness to the issue. From terrorism to global warming, issues like these are volatile in today's world and Hollywood knows this and is producing such films with capital as the real intention, but at the same time imposing the issue on the people of today's world. Terrorism Show by Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard(http://www.ocnus.net/cgi-bin/exec/view.cgi?archive=103&num=26261)WWW.IMDB.COM/blooddiamondWWW.IMDB.COM/inconvinienttruthWWW. IDDB.COM