North Korea’s rise as an international supervillain in Hollywood movies, conquering America in the Red Dawn remake and assailing the White House in Olympus Has Fallen was due to political correctness and greed.
China’s rise as both a major market for films under tight government control and as an owner of a major theater chain in the United States completed the process that began with Scorsese’s Kundun of making movies that offend China off limits.
Political correctness ruled out depicting Muslim terrorists as anything but victims. A handful of movies broke the rules, but most of them did so before 9/11. Post 9/11 Muslims are not allowed to be movie villains, with a few rare exceptions, as I discussed in Hollywood’s Muslim Lies.
North Korea was an easy target because it’s not a movie market. Possession of Hollywood movies in Norkville can get you shot. And it’s only half of Korea so it couldn’t be considered a distinct minority.
So Hollywood went nuts. Now that era is over. Hollywood marches in lockstep. The Chinese hackers did their work well and few studios will want to risk a repeat.
That leaves Hollywood with no villains.
Russia will occasionally show up, but it’s also a major movie market and occasionally dips its toes into investing as well. And Russian hackers are better positioned to repeat the same stunt.
So what does that leave? Expect lots more evil American villains, government operatives, corporate goons and domestic militia terrorists. Americans are the only safe politically correct villains for an un-American industry that pretends to be courageous when it smears its own customers while cowering in front of North Korea.





















