Kolya on 20/8/2012 at 22:43

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I think North Korea was picked because their extreme state religion and isolationism make them a good target for xenophobia. I mean people who cry violently for days when their great leader dies, that's just so removed from anything we know that they might as well be aliens.
The question how North Korea might react to their film is probably the least concern of the makers.

demagogue on 21/8/2012 at 09:29

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I have a feeling if Americans have any feelings towards NKoreans it's pity or bewilderment. There are a lot of Koreans in the US so not sure xenophobia is too much of it. I think practically speaking they were thinking a lot more about alienating a potential audience. People of Chinese descent are a massive community in the US. Or maybe they didn't want to have a backfire with people condemning it for being inflationary and then people boycott it or whatever...

But I think the better answer is: who cares? It looks like it's going to suck anyway.

icemann on 22/8/2012 at 09:49

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Or Aliens from Dimension X.

SubJeff on 22/8/2012 at 12:53

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It would actually be interesting wouldn't it? Not withstanding faetal's ridiculous hyperbole.

Some of them would be former US citizens, some would have family here. Where does the Jewish/USA loyalty begin and end? Hmmm.

DDL on 22/8/2012 at 15:22

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Well, really it should've been "ALL OF THE EXPLOSIVES except the nukes, at least so far". ;)

The problem with the whole "hostile force invades" ideas are that it's been an aaaaage since america was in a state where it could plausibly claim to be 'not the aggressor' in any given conflict: they have all the guns and all the bombs and all the technology, so putting the player (as generic white american male, yo) in a position where he's fighting a guerilla war (a la homefront) requires some pretty heavy handwavy justification (a la homefront).

And of course, for much the same reasons as above, it's a bit tricky to sell guerilla warfare as something you would do as the protagonist, given that a lot of US soldiers are being killed/maimed by exactly that kind of warfare. It's...uncomfortable territory. Plus people might start thinking "hey, who are these fucks invading my god-given nation? Imma fight them with every tool at my disposal, hiding bombs all up in their faces and shit....hey, hang on a minute. Am I actually the bad guy here?"

Following on from faetal's idea, something I think would be fun would be a space-opera where a huge percentage of earth has been invaded by aliens with lots of nasty technology which they use liberally and disproportionately whenever earth tries to mount a defence....and as you progress you discover that actually, earth has powerful allies among other aliens, who persecute the invaders wherever they go.
Turns out the invading aliens are just being horrifically disproportionate in their responses because they feel permanently threatened.
And then you find that the invading aliens have powerful allies of their own, who supply them with their technology and so on and so forth.
If you did it right, you'd be left with something that manages to leave players incredibly confused about who the good guys are, yet is also not quite subtle enough that they miss the obvious analogy.


Er: also, feel free to replace "players" with "viewers". I seem to be automatically thinking in games, rather than movies. :/