There is a rumor among my friends that a coup has taken place in North Korea. Interesting,
If you have seen the movie Team America you’ll know how it is related to the Kim Jung Il rumor and you will also know that the movie answers a question I asked in an earlier blog: “What happens to celebrities who antagonize a large number of their fans, as the anti-war Hollywood gang did?”
We know that, like sports stars, most fans will continue to follow their sports activity. That doesn’t answer the question. Michael Jackson is selling fewer records these days, but he sold a hell of a lot long after his celebrity troubles began.
The movie Team America shows the answer: The antagonizing celebrity gets immortalized in a celebrity punishment, forever recorded on a DVD as a fallen hero? Forever locked in the hell of ridicule.
That is what happens in Team America. A masterpiece of attack ridicule. Such celebrity punishment is best done by fellow celebrities in the chosen field. In this case first rate Hollywood film makers put together one and a half hours of marionettes carrying out the farcical logic of the celebrities being ridiculed. The anti-Iraq war celebrity gang are shown supporting another tyrant, Kim Jung Il, with the appropriate moral consequences.
Team America is the punishment meted out to the many Hollywood celebrities who used their fan based celebrity status to pressure the American government on the proper movie star way to deal with Saddam Hussein.