Hollywood Vs the Aliens

[treesparrow]

The full title is Hollywood Vs the Aliens;The Motion Picture Industry's Participation in UFO Disinformation (by Bruce Rux)

A possible lightweight summer read, a fun romp through popular movie culture and an attempt to convey some serious points about the manipulation of public perception of the UFO phenomena. Part of the blurb on the back reads "... Then he investigates the period between the 1930's and 1950's,focusing on the CIA Robertson Panel's recommendation that Hollywood be used as a deflectionary tool against popular interest in UFO's." Some of the sci-fi films from the 1950's contains UFO themes that were only to emerge in the literature decades later, such as, abductions, missing time, examination tables and hypnotism. The author states that only government sources could have had knowledge of these strange topics at that time.

Beware of the negative review on Amazon where the reviewer claims that he found 50 factual errors regarding the films but gives no examples and makes similar assertions concerning Rux's UFO research but again cites no examples. This review smells like a hit piece to me. I checked,for instance,the release dates for a number of the referenced films (A-C in the index) with another source and found mostly slight variations (some sources for instance may give production dates).

Much to ponder over and though I couldn't agree with everything in the book, it was still highly entertainting. The usual film and TV favourites are mentioned - Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Dr Who, Alien, Planet of the Apes, Blade Runner, Attack of the 50ft Woman, Mars Attack,Capricorn One, Men in Black, Independence Day, War of the World, X-Files and on and on in over 600 pages.

 

[paralleloscope]

Hi Treesparrow

Did a search for Bruce Rux and found _http://www.binnallofamericaaudio.com/stream/BOAA429.mp3
a radio interview with the author; many funny anecdotes and parallels from the filmindustry, scripts and directors between.
from _http://www.binnallofamerica.com/boaa7.8.9.html

He seems to theorize that the alien message outputs are governed by the ambience of presidencial office, which makes less sense if one is aware of it all is one though there could be an era based strategy involved, but nevertheless it is an interesting regathering on how the aliens are portrayed in movies through the times. Furthermore He has a lot of industry emphasis, maybe too much which in turn seems to bind him to a more materialistic alien scenario. There is alot of allusion to alien reality and esoteric spillings in the movies yet he does not mention them in the interview, maybe this is different in the book.

 

[anothermagyar]

I love for example one of the earliest episode of 'Twilight Zone'.
A book is find with "alien writing":
"How to serve Man".
And the end conclusion is they find a cook- book...

 

[Approaching Infinity]

I listened to the Rux interview when it was posted some months back. I've also read most of his book "Architects of the Underworld". Overall, he is good at collecting data, but his conclusions are way off. He's basically part of the Stargate conspiracy, i.e. Egypt is good, the "old gods" are coming back, aliens would never harm us, etc. Again, lots of good info, but mixed with the worst kinds of disinfo.