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** There are agencies who do get it. They show it for exactly the right reasons. Whether or not the employees figure it out/take home the post-film speech in place of the movie's own, however...

* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'''s position on technology. It seems to be advocating responsible, low-impact technology use. Given its [[Anvilicious|general lack of subtlety]], a subset of viewers interpreted it as [[Science Is Bad|anti-technology]], instead of pointing out that it's the uses that matters while being more broadly anti-imperialist. Many pointed out the apparent [[Broken Aesop]] of a film that required oodles of technology to be anti-tech. In addition, there are the people who liked the marines despite their attempts at genocide, similar to the above examples for ''Jarhead'' and ''Apocalypse Now''.

** Travolta's character recognizes this and in disgust gives the trophy to the runner-up couple. It shatters his vision of himself and makes him want to move beyond the shallow lifestyle he built around disco. The movie is remembered for how glamorous it made disco look.

** There's an actual school of thought behind this, do not recall the name for it but some 'moderate nazis/racists' advocate recruiting self-haters to fight in the streets while at the same time aiding those proud of their heritage to make enough to move home, and 'out of their country.' The most famous proponent of this school of thought is of course David Duke, followed by .

* [[YouTube]] comments on ''[[Red Dawn]]'' indicate that there is a small fandom who do not see it as the pro-American film that was intended. This fandom sees the Wolverines as Iraqis, Afghans, Vietnamese, Palestinians, or guerilla fighters from any other nation occupied by America or an ally of America. The Russians in the film are seen as Americans.