Nazis, Soviets and Terrorists Are Old News – Hollywood Sees Chinese As New Big Bad
On my favorite blog on all things geek, I recently read that one of the worst movies of all time, Red Dawn, is being remade. Horrors.
As the blog noted, “I honestly don’t know why they are remaking the movie, the original is a classic and it wasn’t because it was good.” Hah.
Anyway, apparently Hollywood has moved on from demonizing the latest “bad” group, swarthy Middle Eastern types, to Chinese.
The movie envisions a future U.S. that is being occupied by a hostile foreign nation. Apparently in the remake, that nation will be China. Makes sense, if China seems like an alien, scary place.
Here is some artwork that is either in the movie itself or was prepared for PR purposes.
I guess this is an example of what our Chinese occupiers will use to indoctrinate us.
For non-U.S. or younger readers who have not had the “pleasure” of seeing the original Red Dawn, note that while I am disappointed in the China bashing here, I am absolutely outraged that they are remaking this piece of crap.
I think this makes sense — it follows the vein of the late 80s early 90s movies about the Japanese. Who, through their superior technology and work ethic have gotten “ahead” of America in theory. But of course good old fashioned American “gumption” will ultimately lead to the new-american-underdog to triumph. See for example: Rising Sun, Robocop 3. Or for a Soviet version of that see Rocky 4, where Rocky trains in Siberia using low technology and motivation while the evil Soviet uber-mench trains using the highest technology and drugs.
The point in all these movies is of course “sure they might be ahead of us materially but our souls are pure and we will win the end.” This was a very popular trope in mid to late 19th century Russia too. Sure the west was better at almost everything — but we are better in the one thing that counts (soul power.)
Nazis and Terrorists and the incompetent Soviets just dont fit into this because we *know* we would beat those shadow boogymen. But with the Chinese…on paper…how do we beat them? There is more of them, their economy seems to be doing better, they’ve hollowed out American industries and the one thing we were suppose to be good at, services, just crashed and burned the rest of the economy.
I find it pretty offensive that you are bashing one of the greatest movies. Seriously, what’s next? Bashing the great American actor, Patrick Swayze?
Not nice to speak ill of the dead . . .