- Philip Meredith Strub was born in 1947, ironically the same year the United States Department of Defense (formerly known as War) was set up, as the country moved deeper into tensions with Soviet Russia. Strub would become the main point man or liaison between Hollywood production companies and the Pentagon during two decades between 1989 and 2018. scripts were often submitted to him to make sure they portrayed the military in a way that the department would be willing to support with technical assistance, equipment, and actual enlisted men and women in lieu of Screen Actors Guild rate extras.such military cooperation helped the studios save huge amounts of money.In the late 1990s, Strub created a useful database of all film and TV productions that had come to the department for help, going back to the Silent era, Dara which is accessible through the Freedom of Information Act. Strub studied at American College in Paris, France; received a BA in political science from St Louis University in Missouri in 1968; was commissioned as a US Navy officer ; and received a master's in cinema Production in 1974 from the University of Southern California.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lawrence Chadbourne
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- [on the prevalent portrayal of military personnel in many Hollywood war movies]There are these enduring stereotypes - Jungian archetypes - and they often show up in uniform in movies and TV shows. One of the things that comes up all the time is [that]to be a hero you have to defy the rules of your organization because they're no good. And you also have to do it as a loner. Going on your own and recklessly prevailing seems to be a very popular way of portraying people, and of course antithetical to the military ethos.
- 'The Hurt Locker' was problematic for us because it departed from what we thought was the real military ethos. Of course we want to get the ribbon rack correct. Of course we want people saluting, looking properly. But the bottom line for us is how do people feel - how does a serviceman or servicewoman feel - about the portrayal? That portrayal is more important by far than whether the eagle is facing forward.
- We don't advertise it, we don't choose to be prominent, to try and draw attention to ourselves. The public affairs world wants to stay behind the camera, not in front of it, there's certainly nothing that we're hesitant about, we're not ashamed of the relationship, nor have we heard any complaints or any requests to modify it.
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