Posted on 09/15/2009 8:32:05 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
Has any mainstream media outlet mentioned the Patrick Swayze movie that made moonbats nuts during the Reagan era?
A Politically Incorrect Vision of Guerilla War by John Milius When Hollywood decides to make a “controversial” film, it is usually about a subject or theme that the Hollywood community, which tends to be to the left of the political spectrum, agrees on and the movie watching audience does not. In 1984, director John Milius, fresh from successful films like The Wind and the Lion and Conan the Barbarian, decided to create controversy in a different way. He made Red Dawn, a film depicting the Soviet invasion of the United States and the efforts of partisans, mainly high school kids, to fight them off. Hollywood has never forgiven Milius for doing this.
Red Dawn starts in the “near future” (from circa 1984), when NATO has collapsed, Mexico has fallen to Marxist revolution, and America, in essence, “stands alone.” A High School history class in a small town in Colorado is being treated to a lecture about Geingas Khan. Quietly, almost unobtrusively, a Soviet parachute unit is dropping down in the footfall field outside. The teacher is killed, students are killed, and pandemonium breaks out.
A group of students, along with an older youth played by Patrick Swayze, flee into the wilderness, armed with hunting rifles and supplies taken from a gas station/convenience store owned by one of their fathers. At first they survive by hunting and fishing, but soon find that their town is occupied by a Soviet Army that is also comprised of Cubans and Nicaraguans. An incident with some Russians soldiers occurs with the Russians winding up dead, weapons are captured, and the guerilla war is on.
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WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wolverines!!!
I’ve never seen this, but it seems like the kind of movie my little boy and I might like. Is it good?
In my 1985 memory book from high school this is listed as my favorite movie! Didn’t Al Haig help with the script?
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It is a great movie
It is a most excellent movie, you need to see it. Very well done for the time.
They should make a movie of Vince Flynn’s “Term Limits”. That would really put the left into a tail-spin.
Here’s the link:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/24110/red_dawn_a_politcially_incorrect_vision.html?cat=40
I previously posted it incorrectly.
I saw “Red Dawn” in a movie theatre in Santa Barbara in 1982. I’ve seen it many times since then, on HBO and video....I even have the soundtrack on vinyl and compact disc. Love the movie, love Patrick Swayze.
“Red Dawn” was a big “f” you to American liberals, the Soviet Union, the Cubans and the Nicaraguans at a point in time when all these groups richly deserved it. (Then again, they still do).
Kinda funny that Red Dawn is a favorite of characters of the sit com “Scrubs”.
It’s entertaining.
“WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
If the Kenyan has his way, American guerilla movements will spring up in the mountains.
As for me, me and my cell are going to burrow in and conduct IED attacks in the city on the invading Chinese. It’s warmer.
On an historical note, I saw Red Dawn in Edgardtown on Martha’s Vinyard. As I clapped and cheered, the handful of liberals sat in stunned silence.
What a great movie!
Whenever it’s on TV I end up stopping what I’m doing and watching it. GREAT movie!
VirginiaMom
Jed: “Russians!”
Matt: “Bush!”
I did notice that “Red Dawn” is rarely mentioned in the recent Patrick Swayze coverage.
Also not mentioned is that Swayze was the sixth cousin once removed of commentator John Cameron Swayze ( Timex, “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking” )
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