Hollywood if not the biggest influences in the world is one of the most influential industries. Hollywood has made movies about everything, but what some of the movies Hollywood puts out may put a sour note on a place and its impact on tourism. After watching the movie Argo you experience this sour note and have a perception about the place it was in. Hollywood can impact tourism on a place in just a scene of a movie and could potential hurt or deplete tourism all together. Even though in class we found tourism in Iran that looked stunning, I would still not want to go there because we grew up in such a time where war and terror struck that area and we say many Americans and people around us loose family members because of the war. Now yes I realize that it was specific parts of those countries but the persona we put on that country affects our thoughts on such country. Hollywood also does not help by making movies about the middle east that portray war and tragedy. Personally I am not to found of traveling myself and truthfully the only way your going to make me go to the middle east is if you are going to pay me or I am drafted to go fight. I have many more places I would love to go right here in the U.S. like Maine, Hawaii, and the Carolina because I love fresh seafood and the cultures of each of these places. I also want to visit Japan because I enjoy their culture, food and car culture as well.
In Anthony Bourdain’s episode that lead him talking about the reality of living in the war zone was very interesting. We see him transition from going there to explore street food to describing and showing us the realism of an active war zone. It was crazy that he even got out of there unscathed and not trapped within it. Its people and videos like this that need to happen more because the portray the reality of living in such conditions and shows us how good we have it here. At some points in our lives we take this country for granted and people don’t realize what rights we have here as free people. I am very thankful for the life I live here and would not trade it for anything. Anthony Bourdain sets the stage for everyone in the world where there country lets them live freely and that you should not be greedy but should embrace the freedom we have. Movies, documentaries, and shows may portray what it is like there but you will never know until you go explore such area that had been portrayed poorly.
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