Film Actors Guild in Team America

Note: Sorry that this is really late Ed, I was out of town until yesterday and wasn't able to get access to computer.

What I found most interesting about the satirical aspect of Team America was Parker and Stone's apparent agenda against actors. They seem to be really irritated with the way that actors approach the war, and more so how vocal they choose to be on the issues. Their are several cliches present in the way that they present the actors: Matt Damon appears to represent the stereotype that all actors are dumb and have nothing valuable to add to intellectual discussion. Sean Penn makes outrageous anti-Team America statements that are completely false (saying that Iraq had rivers of chocolate and sunny meadows before Team America showed up), satirizing the fact that actors often try to take a strong stance on issues that they may not fully understand.

They point they were probably trying to make through this is the political spectrum is not where actors should be. The people in Washington should be making decisions on these issues, and the army should be executing them. Actors, according to Parker and Stone, are held in much too high esteem in this country through no achievement of their own. Team America goes to great lengths to show that , while they may serve as good entertainment, their is no reason why the American people should give any validity to their stances on issues concerning politics.