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Patrick Swayze's Forgotten Role
NewsRealBlog.com ^ | September 15, 2009 | Ben Johnson

Posted on 09/15/2009 9:33:52 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com

1984s politically incorrect Red Dawn
1984’s politically incorrect Red Dawn

The nation is mourning Patrick Swayze, who passed away yesterday at age 57 after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. Everyone remembers his performances in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, but few if any obituaries will commemorate his role in one of the most politically incorrect films of the last 25 years: Red Dawn.

Leftists have always despised, and still revile, the film. For a quarter-century, the far-Left has claimed Ronald Reagan brainwashed the nation’s youth with this movie. Less than a year ago, David Plotz was so troubled by it that he assailed it in a full article in Slate. “Red Dawn embodies conservative nutterdom in a way few films not made by Mel Gibson have ever managed,” he wrote. “If Ann Coulter made a movie, it would look like Red Dawn. ” (Jonah Goldberg responded on “The Corner.”)

It is fun to remember the libertine Left fretting about its violence. The Guinness Book of World Records, through some reckoning system invented by Enron, named it the most violent film in history. (It was the first film rated “PG-13.”) Its real crimes were two-fold: it showed the Soviets as aggressors promoting an insidious agenda, and it depicted the potentially Orwellian implications of gun control.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: patrickswayze; powsmias; reddawn; uncommonvalor; wolverines
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To: happyathome

The Soviet military details were perfect.

And you have to admit, it had one of the most scintillating history class lectures ever!


21 posted on 09/15/2009 9:56:08 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com ("WOLVERINES!!!")
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To: FrontPageMag.com

Best high school movie ever......period.


22 posted on 09/15/2009 9:56:34 PM PDT by runninglips (It was just time for this to come to a head.....)
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To: Ciexyz

He has been an NRA board member for at least a decade or more.


23 posted on 09/15/2009 9:57:10 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: runninglips

Rockin Roll High School is #2.

Mainly because The Ramones and the real brains of the band, Johnny Ramone (John Cummings guitarist) was a conservative and loved Reagan and Bush.


24 posted on 09/15/2009 9:58:32 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: Reagan Man

Good news - second chance to make it.... better

Red Dawn (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/


25 posted on 09/15/2009 9:59:56 PM PDT by Gun142 (Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
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To: Frantzie

He also wrote “Dirty Harry.” I guess he’s the one who wrote, “Seeing as this is a 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and could blow your head clean off, you have to ask yourself one question....”


26 posted on 09/15/2009 10:00:16 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com ("WOLVERINES!!!")
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To: lmr
but you have to admit it did give one hell of a creepy effect in the unlikely event of a Soviet-Bloc invasion in the American Southwest

The Soviet troops parachuting in during the middle of a high school lecture was (and still is) very creepy. An excellent way to establish the surreal in terms of our every day life.

27 posted on 09/15/2009 10:00:19 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: FrontPageMag.com

I remember that being one of my favorite movies when I was in elementary school. I remember being very disturbed by it the first time I watched it, and that was a good thing. I remember it was what made me realize the dangers of the world for the first time, and why it is important to have an armed citizenry.


28 posted on 09/15/2009 10:01:18 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Frantzie
Hope everyone has paid attention to the movie, because it seems that "Zero' will soon put us to the test over what we have learned.

WOLVERINES!!!!!
29 posted on 09/15/2009 10:01:31 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Ciexyz

“The media hated John Milius for the Conan films, too.”

The media hates John Milius period.

I’m more of a Dirty Harry fan, myself. ;)


30 posted on 09/15/2009 10:01:33 PM PDT by SandWMan ( A riot ist an ugly sing, und, I sink it's about time zat ve had vone!)
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To: Reagan Man

Western soldiers loved it. It personified the Reagan years and our efforts against the Soviet Union and was a huge snub to the media and the left in general, and an excellent action film.

It was also banned in many theaters of West Germany and we NATO guys loved it.


31 posted on 09/15/2009 10:01:41 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: FrontPageMag.com
I thought it would be his role in “North and South”.
32 posted on 09/15/2009 10:02:26 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: happyathome

Milius even got the teacher’s description of the Mongol great hunt to his history class at the beginning of the film right on the money!


33 posted on 09/15/2009 10:02:56 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Ciexyz

Oliver Stone wrote the script for “Conan the Barbarian”.


34 posted on 09/15/2009 10:03:39 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Frantzie

Fun, fun. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL4od3xzthM


35 posted on 09/15/2009 10:04:04 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com ("WOLVERINES!!!")
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To: FrontPageMag.com

I don’t think I saw that movie.

I’ll have to get it from Netflix.


36 posted on 09/15/2009 10:04:31 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: FrontPageMag.com

Really!? I never knew that. Harry Callahan would be on Prozac to work at the San Fran PD today. It is probably a lot more liberal today.

He also did that surfing movie. Big Wednesday???

I loathe Oliver Stone but one good thing he did was write Scarface. Not hard because it was a remake. I think it was Pacino’s over the top “Tony” that was so entertaining and not his script.


37 posted on 09/15/2009 10:05:31 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: Frantzie

Yeah, there was a great line in “Scarface”: “I kill Communists for fun....”


38 posted on 09/15/2009 10:06:49 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com ("WOLVERINES!!!")
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To: ansel12

The general consensus in the states in 1984 was, it was a lousy movie. Period. No one I knew associated it with Reagan in any way shape or form.


39 posted on 09/15/2009 10:10:42 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: FrontPageMag.com

I am still stunned Oliver Stone wrote the script because:

1. We are remindd again what an idiot Carter was with the invasion aka “boatlift.”
2. Tony at INS getting interviewed going on how bad Cuba sucks under Castro. “eating octopus until it comes out of his ears” “holes in his cheap Russian(Soviet) shoes” “police watching you on every corner.”


40 posted on 09/15/2009 10:11:28 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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