In light of Paramount's considering of changing the upcoming G.I. Joe movie from focusing on American service members fighting terrorists to focusing on mythical "international operations team" members fighting Scottish double-crossing arms dealers (no, I'm not making that up), Vin Suprynnowicz movingly tells the history of the inspiration behind G.I. Joe's origin.
This will be today's only article so as to reflect on what Platoon Sergent Mitchell Paige did on that hill in Guadalcanal 65 years ago this past Thursday.
G.I. Joe was just a toy, wasn't he?
Las Vegas Review-JournalHollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe's --- well, "G.I." --- identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels." the IGN Entertainment news site reports Paramount is considering replacing our "real American hero" with "Action Man," member of an "international operations team".
Paramount will simply turn Joe's name into an acronym.
The show biz newspaper Variety reports: "G.I. Joe is now a Brussels based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer."
Well, thank goodness the villain -- no need to offend anyone by making our villains Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days, though, apparently Presbyterians who talk like Scottie on "Star Trek" are still OK -- is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believes arms dealing itself is evil.
(Just for the record, what did the quintessential American hero, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine in "Casablanca," do before he opened his eponymous cafe? Yep: gun-runner.)
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