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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3793165" data-attributes="member: 4937">America - always the rebels to begin with - has become a highly chaotic culture.It's natural that its protagonists should all tend to be chaotic, and its villains all tend to be lawful.In America, you'd never make a movie about a heroic empire trying to preserve the peace in the face of a rag-tag rabble of revolutionary terrorists bent on destroying society.  Our sympathies by training would naturally be with the rebellion and with the underdogs.  It's very hard to shake out of that mind set, especially if your political and moral empathies lean strongly to the chaotic side of the spectrum, as it probably does in the case of most artists and certainly most current American screen writers.</blockquote>