Red Dawn 2: don’t piss off your creditors
In the remake of Red Dawn, which the thought of probably gives your average internet gun nut a turgid little nubbin, is changing the enemy from Chinese to North Korean. Seems the Chinese might actually watch our movies. And we can’t offend people. This is why most successful movies of late have bad guys that aren’t, generally, of a nationality. And are easy for everyone to rail against. Like zombies, aliens, or ourselves.
I think Nazis are still OK.
September 13th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Red Dawn’s gone politically correct. Our society is done.
September 13th, 2011 at 9:13 am
Yes, Nazis have always been OK since they murdered 6 million, but not Communists who murdered at elast 20 million and Russia. And incredibly, the Chinese are off limits even though their current regime is the continuation of one which murdered 50 million of their own people to consolidate power.
The bad guys today in movies and TV dramas are usually Constitutionalists, those who oppose subverting our republic into global government, gunowners, those who oppose allowing the invasion of our nation, homecschoolers, people who practice alternative medicine and health and other dangerous and evil bad stuff.
September 13th, 2011 at 9:19 am
Ive been following this movie from the getgo. I Think its dead. You’ll notice this article is from march… Thats the last Ive heard of it as well. Its to bad, before it was retooled it looked like an excellent remake.
Its ironic that the re tooling goes against the ideals of the majority of the storys fans. Funny.
September 13th, 2011 at 9:38 am
When I first heard of it, I figured the enemy would be conservatives. The Norks are a refreshing surprise.
September 13th, 2011 at 10:02 am
In Red Dawn, the Chinese weren’t the enemy. In a scene with the American Pilot that the kids rescued, if I remember right, the pilot tells the kids that America’s only real ally was the Chinese bit it wasn’t enough help.
The enemies were Russian and Cuban.
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September 13th, 2011 at 11:13 am
There’s a game that came out no too long ago called “Homefront”, in which you play a freedom-fighter in the U.S., fighting off the
overwhelming invading army of Chinabarely credible invading army of North Korea. It seems to suffer from the same syndrome as the remake of Red Dawn. “The United States is invaded by China… What do you mean we can’t use China in the story? Ah, okay, how about North Korea? We don’t owe them money, do we?”About the only fictitious artifact of mass media (as far as I know) that got away with naming China as our future aggressor and got away with it is Fallout 3.
September 13th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Having just watched the movie, I can confirm Stuart’s recollection that the invaders from the original movie was the Russians with the help of the Cubans.
Jed Eckert: …Well, who *is* on our side?
Col. Andy Tanner: Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.
Darryl Bates: Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.
Col. Andy Tanner: There *were*.
[he throws whiskey on the fire; it ignites violently, suggesting a nuclear explosion] [via IMDB]
September 13th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
I am saddened that any of you had to go back and watch the original to determine who the invaders with. It should be etched in your mindseye for all times.
Also, @Ron, they know there is no danger in attacking Constitutionalists/conservatives. We do not typically riot, protest, or participate in assassination.
September 13th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
@ HL:
…yet.
September 13th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
We all know the it was the Russians and the Cubans in the original and I’m not sure why we’re discussing that. The new Red Dawn was supposed to feature the Chinese as the adversary and it has been changed, that is what Uncle is talking about…not that the original involved a Chinese invasion. Not sure how they’re going to sell and invasion by a country which could only be a credible threat if the ENTIRE population invaded us and which doesn’t have even a miniscule fraction of the resources or manufacturing base to produced the items needed.
The plot of “The Mouse That Roared” was more plausible…
September 13th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
On the one hand, there’s the argument that the Chicoms have already defeated us, since they have effectively censored themselves out of the film.
On the other hand, maybe we changed the film voluntarily so as not to offend a country with which we have a good relationship.
I wonder how they’re going to make a North Korean invasion plausible. War is an economic activity, and North Korea is small and impoverished.
China would be fun to play war with in fiction. There would be a rich complexity of possibilities, but the Norks? Not credible = fail. Might as well posit an invasion by the Smurfs. Sheesh!
September 13th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Red Dawn is a movie that didn’t require a re-make. It was/is fine in its original form.