Gittell's Use Of Greed Revealed In Film

The three films Gittell analyses to make his argument clear about American’s New Favorite Villian Is a Rich Guy are Lone Ranger, White House Down, and Iron Man 3. For example, in the film White House Down, Gittell demonstrates how our “new enemy of the moment…doesn’t come from overseas” (478). Gittell indicates that our enemies do not necessary need to be from a foreign country, but that our enemies can be among us. In the film, White House Down, the White House is under attack by 2 domestic terrorist “one is a white supremacist, and another is a disgruntled ex soldier” (479). The whole purpose behind the attack on the White House is to show how greed can lead to a profitable war for the sole purpose to put money into the pockets of corrupt