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- It's a survivalist action-adventure that grows on you over time, and now, 40 years later, still resonates with audiences. With a stellar cast that included Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Grey, Lea Thompson, and a young Charlie Sheen, Red Dawn made waves at the box office and became an '80s favorite.
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- John Milius Rewrote The Script of Red Dawn.
- Milus Had A Very Unique Way of Auditioning Actresses For The Film.
- Red Dawn Was Described as "The Most Violent Movie Ever made."
- Milius Put Patrick Swayze in Charge of Red Dawn's Cast.
- The U.S. Military Named An Operation After Red Dawn.
- Milius Knew Hollywood Would "Condemn" Him For Making The Film.
- Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey Did Not Get along.
- Patrick Swayze Got Frostbite.
- William Smith Frightened Charlie Sheen.
- Milius Thought Red Dawn Was A "Zombie Movie with Russians."
Kevin Reynolds wrote Red Dawn while still a student at USC film school. MGM optioned the script and asked Milius to direct it. “I brought the writer in and said, ‘This isn’t going to be easy for you to take because, you know, you’re kind of full of yourself, but I’m going to take this and I’m going to make it into my movie, and you’re just going to...
Red Dawn co-casting director Jane Jenkins explained that Milius would ask each auditioning actress “What would happen if you were in the wilderness and you were starving? Could you kill a bunny?” “And he’d always say a bunny, not a rabbit,” Jenkins said. “And he’d say, ‘Could you kill a bunny and skin it, and eat it?’ And the girls were horrified a...
After the movie was released in 1984, The National Coalition on Television Violence deemed Red Dawn “the most violent movie ever made.” They said it contained 134 acts of violence an hour, and they rated it X. “This summer’s releases are the most violent in the history of the industry, averaging 28.5 violent acts an hour,” the Coalition said. They ...
Because Patrick Swayze was older than most of the actors, and because he had more acting experience than them, Milius trusted Swayze to control his co-stars. “Milius is a very intense director,” Swayze said in the Red Dawncommentary. “He’s a very wonderful director, but we had to call him the General and he called me, he says, ‘Swayze, you’re my li...
In 2003, when U.S. troops invaded Iraq, Army Capt. Geoffrey McMurray named the mission Operation Red Dawn. “Operation Red Dawn was so fitting because it was a patriotic, pro-American movie,” McMurray told USA Today. A commander in the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division had already named the target farmhouses Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2, so McMurray...
“I knew that Hollywood would condemn me for it,” Milius said in the Red Dawncommentary. “That I’d be regarded as a right wing warmonger from then on, uncontrollable and un-housebroken.” Milius supposedly left one of his guns on his desk while journalists interviewed him, so he demonstrated his ideals well. “I was the only person in Hollywood who wo...
Not all the actors were thrilled with Milius's decision to put Swayze in charge of the cast. Swayze told Daily Mail that he butted heads with Jennifer Grey in particular, who disliked how he ordered her around. “At the end of Red Dawn, however, when we shot her character’s death scene, she seemed to warm to me,” he said. “It's a tender scene and, a...
Filming in Las Vegas, New Mexico, sometimes meant extremely cold conditions. So cold, in fact, that Swayze ended up with frostbite. “I got frostbite so bad in my hands and my toes, that now if my hands and fingers get the slightest bit cold it feels like someone’s shoving toothpicks under my fingernails,” he said in the Red Dawncommentary. C. Thoma...
William Smith played the Russian Colonel Strelnikov, but in real life he had been a Russian Intercept Interrogator for the CIA. “He was terrifying,” Sheen said in the Red Dawncommentary. “I don’t know if he was in character the whole time, but you couldn’t talk to him on the set. You just kept your distance. But it worked in the movie—look how bril...
In the ‘80s, the Cold War was in full swing, and the world lived in fear of a nuclear attack. (Not totally unlike today.) “Red Dawn the film was about the impending possible reality, which at that time was an actual fear of the Soviet Union invading this country,” Milius told Mandatory. “People actually thought that way. That’s why I made that movi...
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In portraying the U.S. as an innocent victim of an unprovoked communist invasion and occupation of North America, Red Dawn fundamentally inverted the historical reality of U.S. Cold War foreign...
Oct 5, 2023 · With its captivating plot, memorable characters, and intense action sequences, Red Dawn has become a cult favorite among movie enthusiasts. In this article, we dive deep into the world of Red Dawn, uncovering 47 fascinating facts about the movie that will leave you reminiscing about this action-packed adventure.
Sep 6, 2024 · If ever a film has been ripe for rediscovery and reevaluation, it is Red Dawn, John Milius’s 1984 movie about a group of Colorado children who become guerilla resistance fighters during a Soviet-Cuban invasion of mainland America.
Aug 10, 2024 · "Red Dawn" is officially 40-years-old, and it's the perfect time to take a walk down memory lane. The 1984 film with Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen focuses on a group of teenagers in Calumet, Colorado who conduct guerrilla warfare after communist forces successfully invade the USA.
Aug 9, 2024 · In portraying the U.S. as an innocent victim of an unprovoked communist invasion and occupation of North America, Red Dawn fundamentally inverted the historical reality of U.S. Cold War foreign policy, especially in Latin America.
