We're always meant to identify with Cruise's characters to some
extent, even when he plays a bad guy, as in Collateral (wasn't he
ever so cool there as a hitman?).
My original query was to insinuate that part of America today
(unconsciously) identifies with the Nazis.
H
> 'Nevertheless being WWII Germans/Nazis the Stauffenberg group deserves
> a more complex view than the one I get from the idea of being embodied
> by a Hollywood and Cruise movie ...'
>
> has anyone actually seen a script? do we even know if cruise's
> character is going to be someone who we're meant to 'identify' with?
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