Re: RED DAWN (2010) - Changed Enemy
Meh, if they wanted to be original, they would've made Great Britain the villain (back to retake the colonies). Or maybe France, in revenge for changing french fries to "freedom fries".
That's not the same thing. Plenty of movies and TV series in China portray corrupt officials and seedy corporate magnates as villains too. It's a different dynamic when you pick another nation as the villain.
Yes, it's just a movie, but it's never just a movie...
freedom fries is just about one of the worst names ever for a food. so bad it destroys the tastes.if they think the name french fries is unamerican because france disagrees with US, therefore they must change it, it really only demonstrates some of these americans are so ignorant, it's funny.
further, it only shows how stingy they are, and unwilling to accept ideas different from their own.
is that really freedom in the fries?
2. i agree. the idea about this movie is that it demonizes a nation. for those movies about US, it's never about the entire nation that's being demonized. rather, it's just a few individual. why? because such a movie will never make it to the screens. people will scream how it's "unamerican" and blah blah and things.
the idea has always been, no one wants to be on the bad side of things, but as storylines usually requires conflict and an antagonizing force, and with the contemporary culture focusing on political correctness, usually writers resort to fictional events, fears, technology, organizations, humans, nonhumans, etc.
however, when they start incorporating realistic nations such as Britain(War of Independence), Germany (WWII), Vietnam(Vietnam War), Japan (WWII), there's usually already some dissatisfaction with some negative portrayals. However they're never full-blown as this Red Dawn will be, where it plays on the anti-Chinese fears and sentiments. Also, as an Asian (or chinese), I think the theme of this movie plays on very dangerous grounds of between anti-Chinese fears as well as negative Asian stereotypes in western media.
In terms of context, there's a mixture of the old, the ongoing, and the new. The old, or I should refer as inferior, would be inaccurate portrayals of AKs. The AK would symbolize "the reds", the hostiles, inferior technology of the chinese and communism. ongoing would be the anti-Chinese sentiments. The new being the type 07 uniforms displayed, which is used to represent the new china.
And imho, what separates the original vs this one would be that while the original already wasn't all the great with the anti-USSR sentiments, it can still barely squeeze through as works reflecting that period.
Honestly I really don't see this movie to be a viable topic at all in any ways
This movie is pretty much "the bear and the dragon" on screen.
Apocalypse??
