‘Red Dawn’ Remake: Have We Seen This Movie Before?
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
A remake of the 1984 movie “Red Dawn” is scheduled to hit theaters in November.
The plot of the remake revolves around a Chi-Com invasion of the United States, and much of it is being shot here in Michigan.
In the film, invaders put up propaganda posters to tell Americans that hey, we’re on your side.
Here are some pictures of those posters taken on the set of the movie:
Nice to see Shepard Fairey was able to find more work.
More from a video of a walk around the movie set:
And look, the invading Chi-Coms even have food police, just like… oh, nevermind:
That one made Michael Bloomberg’s trousers flutter.
Something tells me that I’ve seen this movie before, but I just can’t put my finger on it.
China is reported to be unhappy with the plot of the movie — as are some Americans for that matter — because of the way the script portrays the Chinese people and alleged American paranoia toward same.
Maybe we can alleviate these fears by pointing out that there’s a good possiblity that this movie — though the Chinese are the convenient metaphorical “villians” that appear on the screen — doesn’t really have anything to do with China. I’ve even read that in the movie a willing accomplice of the invaders is a member or members of the U.S. media. Yeah, I know.
Update: For those of you saying “Wolverines!” in comments, I’m a Michigan State fan, so I’m afraid I’d be stripped of my tickets if I joined in.
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I guess Michigan makes sense because…
WOLVERINES!!!!
Wolverines!
Oh, they won’t allow our Secretary of Defense into their country but they are unhappy with a movie producer. Cry me a river.
Chap is quick today.
Those are just scenes from a movie?
I thought they were advertising Obummers latest plans to “save” America.
This is a movie plot?
I think it’s likely the Progressive Game Plan.
Really.
Who cares as long as they have Michael Bay blow sh!t up!
btw Chap… on your SD trip, if you haven’t been to the SD Zoo… you should try to fit it in. Not everyone is into the zoo, but this isn’t your typical zoo.
If Obowmao’s pic is on those coins, he’s got a hole in his head.
The best scene in the original, and Rogue may already know this, is when Swayze blows a snot bubble out of his nose.
I have been and loved it. Will probably go again because my sister in law hasn’t seen it yet.
Hmmm. This all sounds oddly familiar. I think it had something to do with Changing Hope or something, maybe someone having the audacity to change hope
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Oh, I know, the movie set must be in DC. I saw some video of Obama taking over industries, demonizing the Banks and wall street. Boy, wouldn’t that be a shocker. Communism right in the White House. It would make a great movie, but I wouldn’t want to live through it! /s
Is Hollywood on a 80′s movie remake lately? They have a new “The Karate Kid” out now. “Red Dawn” for November. What’s next? A new “Dirty Dancing” staring Al and Tipper?
I thought it was when Jennifer Grey blows a gore bubble with a grenade.
Maryland Demonrat Representative skips Town Hall for invite only soiree.
Had a rough time of it last year, apparently, with those pesky tax payers.
“Representative” is the wrong word.
The Senators were supposed to be somewhat isolated from the pressures of pure democracy by six year terms and originally being appointed by the state legislatures, but the Reps face the voters every two years, and were supposed to represent the will of the people.
Overlord, maybe the better title. Plantaton overseer.
Actually, there is a bit of a mini controversy here over the next Transformer movies. Apparently there were big plans to film a bunch of it in DC, and especially on some federal property (like the National Mall). Businesses were pretty excited because it would be like 2 full weeks of hundreds of movie crews coming in, pluss a lot of pre and post shoot work. Anyway, the Park Service said ixnay on the “acing cars through the Reflecting Pool-ray” and now the shoot has been drastically reduced.
Are you sure this is from the set?
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China doesn’t need to invade. Their fifth column in the Democrat Party is doing it’s job very well.
WOLVERINES!!!!
Sounds more like the series “V”, only the Democrats couldn’t build the space ships, Blue Energy and advanced medical treatments.
So it’s not just the six-pack abs and cool dance moves that turned the girls on?!
Ya know, back in the ’80′s when the original Red Dawn was released, one could almost imagine the Soviets coordinating such a thing with its allies. And besides the Wolverines, they were fighting our armed forces.
On the other hand, today, the Chinese could just take over without a shot. Just overwhelm us while posing as tourists. There are probably hundereds of thousands of ‘em already roving around our big city touristy areas.
They’d probably get localized resistance, but I don’t think they really would want to do a whole lot of physical damage to their investments here.:)
There HAS TO BE a cameo appearance by Powers Booth….
Can someone identify the Chinese character within the red star?
isn’t it Mao?
I don’t want to be a plot spoiler, but does anyone know how this version ends?
I’m guessing that our Intellectual President fires up his tele-prompter and crushes the Red Invasion with a devastatingly boring speech, replete with bowing and apologies.
Because there ain’t no way that the Chinese are going to get any resistance in NYC, Boston, San Fran, etc.
Speaking of the Wolverines, I think Texas, a&m and Oklahoma should join the SEC, the SEC should boot Vandy, and Alabama and Aubunr would move to the SEC East.
When the Big 10 raids Nebraska and Missouri. Actually, Utah and Brigham Young could probably be invited in as replacements, and then the Utes couldn’t whine about automatic BCS conferences.
Boise State, I know they have BCS caliber football, but they are Boise State. Not exactly Cal-Berkely or Texas, if you know what I’m saying, which is probably why they wouldn’t be invited to the PAC 10.
The Big 12 South joining the Pac 10 idea isn’t awful, although the Texas lege is high if they think Baylor is a better school for a powerhouse conference than Colorado. BU only made the Big XII because Ann Richards was governor when the conference formed, and she was an alum.
A Pac 10 East where Arizona and Arizona State play all Texas and Oklahoma schools schools, nobody has the September heat home field advantage anymore.
If the formerly Catholic college Notre Dame would do the right thing, so the Big 10.5 could have a playoff, we’d have no problems, but the prima donna school with its own low rating NBC taking a bath contract deal, that gives Abortionist in Chief Obama an honorary doctorate, they just suck.
I know BC, as a Jesuit school, isn’t particularly Catholic either, but until Ave Maria or St Thomas here in Houston or Holy Cross or Assumption College step up to the big time in football, I will root for BC to humiliate the Irish every time they play.
But, of course, whatever conference Texas winds up in, will be the powerhouse conference. When USC and Florida win titles, do you see people nationwide wearing crimson and gold or blue and green or whatever. But that miracle in January 2006 at the Rose Bowl, the whole nation celebrated.
Only slightly off topic.
It’s just a couple of bureaucrats in the Ministry of Truth, but don’t worry, they’ll edit the whole thing out of the next version of the American History textbooks.
That Chinese glyph is the letter “O” in the Mandarin language.
(Maybe).
Today’s “V” is an excellent metaphor for Obama. The 1980′s “V”, before it became about aliens, was originally to be about a Chinese takeover of the US.
Did you see ‘Revenge of the Fallen’ chap? (I’m sure it’s not your style)
But part of it is supposed to be in the National Air & Space museum, and they break up stuff & run out ‘the back’ of the building & suddenly they’re in a meadow in an obviously California setting. It was hilarious.
Well, then. Sparty on, dude!
This is something to be welcomed, not feared….note, the ones in pink could flatten Code Pinkos without scuffing their go-go boots…
Far from it, Mayors Newsom, Bloomberg, et al, will be doing meets and greets with their new masters to whom they will cheerfully hand out the keys to their respective cities.
Actually, “V” was originally supposed to be about fascism descending on the U.S. from within.
From Wikipedia:
“Inspired by the Sinclair Lewis novel about fascism in the United States, It Can’t Happen Here (1935), director–producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation titled Storm Warnings, in 1982. The script was presented to NBC for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too ‘cerebral’ for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as man-eating extraterrestrials, taking the story into the realm of science fiction to capitalize on the popularity of science-fiction franchises such as Star Wars. The new, re-cast story was the mini-series V, which premiered on May 1, 1983.”
I meant the star with the Chinese “letter.”
More accurate
I loved one of the first scenes in the original Red Dawn where Patrick Swayze and his brothers and friends were counting how many guns and how much ammo they could get their hands on. The whining liberals had to rely on the NRA-types to defend their sorry butts in the original movie.
Didn’t the original “Red Dawn” take place in the great planes, like in the Dakotas, or in Iowa/Kansas etc?
Colorado, I believe.
I can’t wait.
I’ll bet this is a bigger hit than any of those stupid anti-American movies that have come out lately.
Too bad Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhall. (sp?)
People vote for the opposing party, get cocky when they win and end up defending the same policies they previously condemned ?
Snake!
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that the Russian Communist heavy in the 1954 film Invasion USA could be spouting the Obama agenda when he addresses the newly conquered USA.
I also noted the first thing the Commies did when they took over was shoot a talk-radio host.
Now why in the world would those Capitalist Roader ChiComs invade the US except to collect their debts? If they tried to shut down the donuts shops our cops and truck drivers would go berserk. Even Little Bloomie won’t be able to pull off that attack.
No my friends sleep well- if all else fails Duncan Donuts will keep us safe.
I’m with the likes of tre & NJ-Aviator on thisun:
I thought Doug was writing a spoof on the 2008 election and afterward.
Well obviously the following dialogue will have to be rewritten.
One of my favorite movies, I hope they do not screw it up. I liked it so much, I bought the Laser disc(yeah one that looks like a 33 record) when it was released.
It would be great if they did a cameo showing Col Any Tanner or at least in the extras/bonus disc.
I have never heard one complaint when showing this to guests that I have over. Everyone seems to like the patriotic sentiments in the original.
My favorite scene is when they take out the tank guys trying to chase/rape Lea Thompson at the gas station.
It will be interesting if they knit the gun ownership registration issues into this remake.
This will get you into the mood, made by a fan:
EAS EAN: Red Dawn 2010
Well at the rate we are going.. China won’t have to invade, and take over part of America.. we will have to give them part of our land to pay back all of our Debt.
“Because there ain’t no way that the Chinese are going to get any resistance in NYC, Boston, San Fran, etc.”
I live just outside of Boston and possess a Class A (large capacity) LTC and would put up quite a bit of resistance
KGB Major: Do you want to see me?
Colonel Ernesto Bella: Yes… yes. Go to the sporting goods store. From the files obtain forms 4473. These will contain descriptions of weapons, and lists of private ownership.
How our bureaucrats aid the enemy!
The Chinese shouldn’t SOONERS worry. Don’t they know that all humans SOONERS are evil. They’re lucky SOONERS that James Cameron didn’t direct SOONERS the Red Dawn re-hash.
Hmmmmm. …that wasn’t as subliminal as I had hoped.
Exactly, the gun registration lists!
Cheddar you must have the collectors edition or the script?
Actually, like a good Hollywood liberal, Kenneth Johnson believes that fascism will come from the right.
Updated for you Rougue.
It may be looked back upon as “cheezy” or such, but for myself I’ve always thought Red Dawn was a great movie. Realistic? I needed some help, but not nearly as much as other more recent movies.
Remaking it using the same story would be nice (though Hollywood can **** anything up), but this so-called “remake” is just sick.
Like all movies today, it will end up being just another 1.5hour promotion for the godhood of the Obamanation.
I’m waiting for the “A-Team” remake.
That should be an instant cinematic classic.
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You (and likely others) beat me to it.
The photos look like they came right out of the America-hating, domestic-enemy socialists-produced agony that we have had to endure for the past 1-2 years (if the latter part of the 2008 campaign is counted) and currently are still suffering through.
I pray to God that this nightmare will end sooner rather than later.
I fondly recall a Harrison Ford retrospective on cable citing that the underlying premise of “Bladerunner” was just this; that Asian countries simply called in their markers here and literally bought the country. No need to invade when you already own it. The L.A. in that movie hauntingly reminds of Main Street in Flushing (ex-WASP Worlds’ Fair community) Queens, which is just like Seoul or Peking, I swear! (Oddly enough, no hide nor hair of Japan there!)
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Word on the street is that Rahm is really pissed about those posters. Apparently somebody took them straight out of his 2012 campaign book.
You mention Fairey.
But all the ads and slogans are more like
a sitcom version of
The Obama Campaign – endless loop version.
You beat me to it md1964. It’s the truth.
I would add, however, that we’re already being invaded. It’s not from the Chinese, however, they’re coming in over our southern border!
Of late, Hollyweird hasn’t had a very good track record in doing remakes. A prime example: The Longest Yard. The remake was atrocious. Adam Sandler as an ex-QB? Suspension of disbelief goes only so far and that casting decision went too far. Burt Reynolds was much more believable in the part of a QB especially since he was an athlete in high school and college before an injury put his college career at Florida State to a halt. Admittedly there are exceptions to my premise but if one puts a list of remakes made in the last 15 years and compares hits to bombs, the bombs will overwhelm the hits in sheer volume.
Yeah, Kingsman (Brooklyn College) is a poor substitute for Wolverine.
Movies aren’t the only things being remade. You may be aware that an attempt is being made to remake the Rockford Files, and even Hawaii 5-0 on television itself! But there’s little chance any of the TV reworkings will fare any better.
While we’re on the subject of entertainment, I must try in the future to send Doug some items he might be interested in on the subject of mainstream comic books. As someone who’s been familiar for many years with what’s happened to DC and Marvel, there’s plenty of things I could provide that trust me, could come in useful for discussion, Doug.
You mean like their sharp left turn?
The chinese character symbol inside the star is an 8 over a 1 and stands for August 1st the anniversary of the Communist Chinese Army Day.
http://www.mandarintools.com/numbers.html
http://www.nciku.com/qna/entrynote?entryId=2589818&dictype=en
The links partially illustrate these points other nuances have not been accounted for.
I’m always wondering how many Chinese are in some of those COSCO containers one sees. Tens of thousands of Chinese “tourists”, among other “tourists”, “students”, temporary H1-B visa “wokers, visit the USA regularly via our aiports, too many of whom overstay, and while the southern border gets most of the attention, the northern border brings many invaders as well.
So many ways invaders pour in and don’t leave that an actual armed military invasion is unneccesary. The invaders are already here….waiting for just the right time.
Like the one Bugs Bunny missed repeatedly?
What would they do here – all of our industy is in China….
I cried when Andy died.
“Shoot straight…you Army pukes.”
To get a first hand look at what they own.
The sad/scary part is that the Art Department didn’t have to look any farther than an anti-Bush/pro-Obama rally to get their slogans.
It truly is scary to see just how parallel the posters for this movie and the Liberal/Progressive/Democrat slogans and posters run. One can only assume that those protesting and complaining are doing so because they are afraid it will finally awaken the sleeping people who will finally realize what we have been telling them for years; If it claims to be “Progressive”, “Liberal”, “Tolerant”, “Non-Racist”, or anything else they claim, you can rest assured that it is the exact opposite.
I thought the plot of the remake was going to be the Che Guevara Middle Alternative School taking on some local developers that want to build on the only known habitat of the Woody Spotted Grub. With eco-warrior ninjas and carbon neutral battle scenes.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the filmmakers were borrowing a bit from Robert Heinlein’s Sixth Column…and perhaps from the recent ABC V remake as well.
Another film that doesn’t need a remake.
I also note from the pictures some propaganda style similarity with Amerika, but I guess propaganda posters tend to all look alike after a while. (Reminded of something in that old miniseries: how the Soviets allowed the locals to have their annual “Lincoln Day” celebration, but the approved banners juxtaposed images of Lincoln and Lenin….)
Take back States Rights, repeal the 17th Amendment.
War with China is a possibility; however the Chinese governmnet fears its own people more than it does the United States. The U.S. would have more to worry about if there were a Chinese revolution, who or what would replace the current government.
China is already invading us… One Dollar Store at a time
I was hoping to see a comparison between posters in the movie and posters from O-bow-mao’s propaganda machine.
IMPEACH OBAMA
RUN, don’t walk, to the video store and rent “They Live” a 1980′s laugher (with pro wrestler Roudy Roddy Piper and Meg Foster) about an alien invasion and their virtual propaganda machine.
OBEY
That and the Great Walmart of China.
Avenge me! Avenge me!
“They Live” is a classic!
I saw “They Live” on late night cable and I agree with you that it is highly educational on the communist take over of the USA.
Just Substitute the Rockefeller CFR and NWO for the Aliens.
The symbol is the Chinese mark of the Characters 8-1, for August the First, on said date 1927 was the Nanchang Uprising. The day the Communist Revolution started and the Founding of the Peoples Liberation Army.
I for one welcome our Chinese overlords and will shoot any Redheads carrying picknik baskers into the recruitment centers of the Glorious revolutionary Army. >> lulz.
FERRETS!!!!!!!!!!! “Devilish red-eyed creatures that would gnaw your eyes out of their sockets and eat your tool for desert.” comment from a ferret legger.