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I don't think those are in the same vein as Smokey & The Bandit or Waylon Jennings, no. But you make good points that it's never really been an either-or proposition in media.
Probably right. That may be more a reflection on what Hollywood thinks of Middle America more than anything else.
I personally think the rise of “hero cops” only shows have coincided more with the rise of “true crime” stuff all over the place.
But what do I know? OP is probably completely correct for all I know.
I don't think those are in the same vein as Smokey & The Bandit or Waylon Jennings, no. But you make good points that it's never really been an either-or proposition in media.
Fair enough
However, I ended up googling “current cop shows”....and there is definitely waaaay more depicting “serious” police work. So I don’t know, maybe I’m completely wrong. A big part of me likes to think that people are smart enough to distinguish entertainment with reality....then I remember what country I’m in.
Part of the reason I'm asking is I didn't live through the 70's and I was 2 years old when First Blood came out. So I don't know the national tenor or at ude towards cops except what I see in entertainment. And that's not to say I assume First Blood represents how all Americans felt about cops, I'm just saying I'd be surprised to see that kind of portrayal in that kind of film today.
But also, if a movie like First Blood came out today I probably wouldn't see it anyway.
Funny I barely recall Stallone gaining fat weight for his role as small town sheriff in "Copland"
Yeah I agree
I don't know anyone who fetishizes the police. There are plenty of evil cop movies around. Of course there are few here who seem to have lost their minds when the two cops died at the Capitol Riot so maybe that's what you're talkin about.
Hur dur I've never heard of whitey screaming what about blue lives hur dur
I've also noticed that when police officers face charges for their misbehavior in court, the legal system treats them just like any other defendant. A policeman's word doesn't count for more than anyone else's in a court of law.
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I don't have an anecdote so Imma try to change the subject to other posters here.
Who owns and operates the movie studios, Sadbert?
the unions / Blue Wall keep cops as defendants mostly out of court. As witnesses, I expect they lie more often than civilians, with a benefit of the judge and union/legal backup, with other cops testifying/lying on behalf of a cop defendant.
White (supremacist) people, expect the police to 'take care' of the non-whites.
Oppression of non-whites is so deeply ingrained in American civilization, that it's not even recognized by many whites.
"Fetishized" law enforcement culture attracts murderers, sadists, racists, brutes, who all know how LE operates against non-whites with nearly perfect impunity.
The War on Drugs was conceived by racist Nixon as the White War on Black Drugs. Whites won and are winning.
So marijuana remains in the LE arsenal as Schedule I and Incarceration Nation is non-white nation.
That is a lucid and well thought out retort.
It's a summary of yours
Everyone hates cops when they are rebelling against mommy & daddy. Some people never mature and remain resentful towards authority, those in power and the wealthy.
Everyone should hate cops for implementing the death penalty on blacks for being blacks.
But you don't and you probably never will.
Ah yes, the truest sign of maturity: Unquestioning submission to authority.
I should have known. Of course.
I will give you the benefit and assume you aren't serious with this black worshiping
No doubt you are serious with white worship. I bet if they had kkk Poland you'd be knocking on their door hood in hand
I will give you the benefit and assume you aren't serious with this black worshiping
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