#red dawn film

[uniories]

Sunrise (Hong Kong, 2024)

[bluestation]

UTA !

[tizzypizza]

i let the words of a curse be my deliverance

[sunbloomdew]

so after literal years i'm back to watching one piece (don't ask me what possessed me, i wouldn't be able to tell you. actually i am able, it was shuggy content)

i'm at episode 4 and the fact that shanks left out the fucking devil fruit in an open chest, just right there on the counter, IN GRABBING DISTANCE OF A CHILD???? red haired shanks you're such a dumbass i love you. never babysit anyone ever

[gizamalblythe]

film red au: the rhp get to elegia and when looking at the music school it comes up that uta has the sing-sing fruit. this causes everyone in the vicinity to immediately go on high alert and immediately try and rush them off the island. shanks asks what going on and gordon explains that there is a demon sealed away on the island woth the power of a previous user of the sing-sing fruit and the demon is constantly influencing people to sing the song to release it but only the one with the power of the sing sing fruit can, uta asks with tears i her eyes if this means she cant go to the music school and before shanks can say anything gordon interjects again and says that they will just send a teacher to her, they were thinking of opening a second school anyways. all this is happening while they are being rushed back to the red force, and when asked where the teacher should meet them he says foosha village on dawn and thats how uasl gets another steady parental figure and how the elegia school of music opens a branch in goa kingdom

[steampunkforever]

Red Dawn has been long cited as an 80s must-see classic, but frankly I don't get it. This, of course, is not a meaningful approach to film criticism so buckle up for multiple paragraphs on the subject instead.

The thematic kernel at the center of Red Dawn's script is actually interesting, belying the meatheaded jingoism of the film itself: What if the Soviets staged an imperialist invasion of the United States? Which isn't to say that nobody had thought of this one before, this anxiety slotted pretty close under "Thermonuclear war" back in the 50s, but that Red Dawn's approach to portrayals of North American freedom fighters as close to that of fighters in Socialist Revolutions across the third world was in fact interesting.

Too bad the rest of the movie blows it.

Red Dawn is in its final form raw, uncut Conservative wish fulfillment. What was, looking at the script's bones with a coroner's eye, an antiwar film with an artistic bent is transformed into the perfect fantasy: men you're allowed to shoot are literally parachuting into your back yard. You will live in the woods (this is fun) and loot weapons off the Spetsnaz commandos you kill because the might of the Soviet empire is no match for the American Dream *red tailed hawk scream they want you to pretend is a bald eagle* Cue the national anthem and roll credits.

The fact that Ukrainians spent the past 3 years referencing the film through spray painted "WOLVERINES!" on cratered Russian armor is telling. This is a film that makes you feel good about your chances of defeating Combloc invaders. Even today you'll see memes about UN/Chinese paratroopers (it's always paratroopers!) facing the might of the American Redneck and you can draw the line right back to Swayze and Sheen blowing up the commies in Calumet.

Frankly I'd have been a bigger fan of the film if it had done a line of coke off the script for Rambo II and put out a meatheaded action romp, but the film tries to keep the somberness of the original script. It's a gonzo premise that could pull off the raw conservative wish fulfillment were the production not tripping it up. The execution propaganda scene where the prisoners sing the national anthem moments before being gunned down could be absolute camp! Yet the movie makes us take it too seriously while abandoning the antiwar themes the script initially required, much to the detriment of the entire production.

It's a shame really, because the character of a Cuban revolutionary turned invader is an interesting exploration of how liberators become oppressors in their own right (a mirror to the US itself, a country originally founded on the rejection of tyranny) and the film just doesn't allow itself to get deep enough for that, while simultaneously wearing the corpse of the serious art movie the original script was meant to be.

Red Dawn is a film caught in the limbo between gonzo action and serious artfilm, between thematic exploration and outright propaganda film. I just wish it would pick one and stay with it, but unfortunately that's one wish this film will not fulfill.

[dr-archeville]

This Friday (April 12th, 2024) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series double feature:

Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986)

John Milius’ Red Dawn (1984)

$12.00 [plus tax] to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC http://www.carolinatheatre.org/

[muldoonlives]

[pintsizeddeepthoughts]

25 of 250: Favorite Films - Red Dawn

Not long ago, work colleagues and I got into a discussion about what our favorite films were. Given my categorical nature I could not resist writing down a list and, as a writing challenge, have decided to write 250 word reviews of my favorite 25 films of all-time. Note: these are my favorite films, not what I think are the best films of all time.

Directed by: John Milius

Written by: Kevin Reynolds and John Milius

Starring: Patrick Swazye, Lea Thomson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, Powers Boothe

Year/Country: 1984, United States

The first film to be given a PG-13 rating, John Milius’s Red Dawn is at once a conservative fever dream and a sobering look at the cost of war. Set in 1984, a group of high school students escape the start of World War III after their Colorado town is taken over by Soviet paratroopers. Over the course of months, this group morphs into a guerilla group styling themselves as the “Wolverines” to take on their Russian and Cuban occupiers.

Yes, the movie is ridiculous. And yet Milius’s film is more than the sum of its parts. A large part of that is due to Milius’s eye for striking imagery (the opening with descending paratroopers is always startling) and that forces his characters to make awful choices. Case in point - at one point one of the Wolverines betrays the group and leads the Russians to their hideout. At this point, Swazye and company must make a choice: abandon their comrade or execute him for treason. The Wolverines choose the latter. It’s not unanimous. Swazye is asked by his distraught brother, “what’s the difference between them and us?” Swayze, his face contorted with rage and grief, growls, “we live here!”

No one will accuse Milius of being a romantic and he is to be applauded for not making a rah-rah film. It’s an absurd premise that was paranoid even in its day. Yet, because Milius takes this premise seriously we in turn take it seriously as well (to our own surprise).

[anupkc7]

Guess the country.

[worldmusicandcinema]

[chibitorra]

Another thing I’m noticing with Film RED is they use the word “dawn” a lot. 

At least in the english version. (yes I like the dub, sue me) 

They use it both in the sense of a sunrise and a verb (to dawn on something) 

One in particular really caught my eye, at the end when they’re waiting for everyone to return to their bodies, Shanks says “A new age is dawning soon”

They could have used any turn of phrase to say that but it felt like they used the word dawning very deliberately.

Several of Uta’s songs also mention the dawn.

At this point, if the D doesn’t stand for Dawn I’m gonna flip a table.

[schlock-luster-video]

Red Dawn is starting in half an hour on AMC (May 12, 2:15 AM EST) in case anybody's interested!

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Sometimes you will be assigned a movie for class and it will literally be one of the worst films you will ever watch.

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Tara Lynne Barr!

[jimsmovieworld]

RED DAWN- 1984 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

World War 3 starts.....

Russia and Cuba send paratroopers to invade Colorado. A group of teenage friends hide out in the mountains. After seeing there friends and family killed they decide to morph into gorillas and battle the invading forces....

Fun action movie. However, it felt half an hour too long, in the middle of the movie when in the mountains, some of the fights seemed too similar. Still enjoyed the movie though.

Excellent cast. Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze. Charlie Sheen, Michael C Hall and more appear.

Directed by John Milius.