Last summer I did a post about the remake of the 80′s classic Red Dawn. In the new version China invades America to collect its debt. Well, that is no longer the case. The final version of the new Red Dawn has North Korea as the enemy. This isn’t realistic since North Korea is a regional power with no power projection.
Without Beijing even uttering a critical word, MGM is changing the villains in its ‘Red Dawn’ remake from Chinese to North Korean. It’s all about maintaining access to the Asian superpower’s lucrative box office.
China has become such an important market for U.S. entertainment companies that one studio has taken the extraordinary step of digitally altering a film to excise bad guys from the Communist nation lest the leadership in Beijing be offended.
When MGM decided a few years ago to remake “Red Dawn,” a 1984 Cold War drama about a bunch of American farm kids repelling a Soviet invasion, the studio needed new villains, since the U.S.S.R. had collapsed in 1991. The producers substituted Chinese aggressors for the Soviets and filmed the movie in Michigan in 2009.
This is a bad business decision on their part. A fictional invasion of America by China would be a huge seller in China. That nation is currently going through Nationalistic fervor. Some Chinese may well enjoy seeing their nation as the invaders. China as the invader would also serve as a wake up call to Americans to not borrow from a rival power. This is a dumb move.
Can you imagine if in the old Red Dawn they replaced Russia with East Germany? Well that’s as ridiculous as this North Korean invasion plot. Welcome to Hollywood 2011. We can’t even make movies about our rivals.
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Tags: Red Dawn
This political correctness has got to stop. Mustn’t offend them… CRAP!!!
WOLVERINES!!!!
Why not just make Israel the Invader and bad guy. I mean liberals and the rest of the World would love that. And to really make the movie a hit, the bad Jews could force everyone to eat Kosher and get circumsized!
Well, scratch that movie off the list. I don’t need to pay to see PC platitudes. I can watch all that shit I can stand on the evening news, even Fox…
This reminds of the TV program 24 changing its
focus. The threat of Islamists was replaced by
Russian Nationalists.
That was the begining of the end, it was to
politically correct & silly.
An Irish Blessing
(A Blessing from St. Patrick)
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And, until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
(Traditional Irish Blessing; origin unknown,
although some attribute it to St. Patrick.)
@ RIX:
I was flipping the channels last night and stubbled on Sum of All Fears. They had to make the muslim terrorists in the book into Neo-Nazis who wanted to nuke Baltimore. Pissed me off something fierce. The book was decent but come on… Neo-Nazis??? Yeah, they have been responsible for soooo many terrorist attacks in the last few years.
@ RIX:
Or Battlestar Galactica going squishy midway through the Second Season. Hollyweird would rather lose money than supply the pro-American market with entertainment. Remember that the next time they defend Gangster Rap with the plattitude that they are only serving the market…
@ Nevergiveup:
If they did that, the ending of the movie would have to change. Make it that Israel is helping patriots in America take back the country from the progressives. Now we are talking about a movie…
@ MikeA:
Chculkes believes in Neo-Nazis. Faries, too, most like…
******* Happy St. Patrick’s Day *******
Morning folks.
@ Iron Fist:
Where did they go squishy? I watched it a while ago and don’t remember…
I am re-watching John Adams. Last night was the signing of the Declaration of Independence episode. Powerful stuff….
@ MikeA:
Hollywood lacks basic honesty.
You would think that there is no Islamic threat.
RIX wrote:
So true. Remember when the muzz came to see him in the hospital.
That was too much. Presenting the muzz as the enlightened one.
What b.s.
@ MikeA:
After the Ceylon invasion of New Caprica. By the end, I heard most everyone was a Ceylon under their skin. “We’re all terrorists now” became the watchword of the show, and I stopped watching a show that I had thoroughly enjoyed.
@ Iron Fist:
That’s true. They consider patriotism to be nothing
but knuckle dragging jingoism.
They’ll take our money though.
I wasn’t expecting too much out of this one to be honest. Remakes tend to suck in recent years.
@ RIX:
Another one I heard. “May you be in heaven 6 hours before the devil knows you’re dead.”
I’ve been checking the Red Dawn facebook page and several American Chinese are really pissed about this. Also this has a lot to do with the purchase of MGM by front companies of the Chinese govt last year.
@ chickadee:
I missed that episode. Was that when Jack Bauer
confessed his sins to the Imam?
I worry about an invasion of mutant lizards
@ mawskrat:
Wait until night in th emiddle o winter, then launch the offensive that will wipe all of them out…
RIX wrote:
I think so. When I saw the muzz and realized I’d been punked, I started yelling and turned off the tv real quick. lol
russian invasion of the US in the 80′s plausible, suicidal but plausible.
chinese invasion of the US in 2011, not plausible at all.
nork invasion of US???? laughable
when you owe people money they really don’t
want to kill yah…mabe a couple caps in the knees
that’s what China is…the loan shark
@ chickadee:
Good move. BBL y’all.
@ mawskrat:
If they looked like that… Invade me baby!!!!
…wait for the plot twist that reveals a head case Iraq war veteran is really behind the invasion plan which targets peace loving muslims who just want to build community centers where their kids can play together with Jews.
It is amazing how fear of the muzz is reshaping the creative world.
I was talking to an art critic last week and she said it is only fear that stops artists from addressing islam.
At least she had the balls to admit it and not try to spin into some pc crap.
I said, so now any art that attacks Christianity and other ‘religious’ beliefs is completely laughable and utterly meaningless because these are safe subjects for cowardly artists.
@ Bureaucat:
Saw the same Castle episode. I liked the show but that story really got to me. Come on.. I saw it coming when they first half ended. Yeah.. so many Iraq war vets are coming back to set off dirty bombs.
@ MikeA:
I stopped watching the series I was so upset. Our troops don’t need to be portrayed as whack jobs. Not only is it insulting but it perpetuates propaganda that supports the enemies of humanity.
Imagine MGM creating a film about an insane Army Colonel returned from WWII who targets Americans of German or Japanese descent done in 1943. It is almost unthinkable, yet that is what Hollywood has been doing since Vietnam.
chickadee wrote:
Sadly those who seek to kill and oppress don’t seem to lack courage to state their convictions.
O/T…bump
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@ mawskrat:
Yeah, but if we default on the loan, they might want to repossess some property…
(Not really, but it is a fun thought. The Cold Civil War is much more likely to turn hot when the Federal Government collapses…)
@ coldwarrior:
Oh, noes! Teh sky is falling!!!11!! BILLIONS WILL DIE!!!!!!11ty!!
@ coldwarrior:
Not plausable, but way more believable than North Korea.
@ Nevergiveup:
How about Israel and Colombia invading the US together. The Jew haters and Catholic/Latin haters can get a 2 for 1. The evil Zionists and evil Latin Papists togther!
@ Mars:
You would think the Chinese government would love this. Here they are invading America. It would show the power of China.
I’m conmvinced Chinese audiences would love this.
@ Rodan:
Wherther they would or not, American audiences would have loved the movie. The Norks? Not so much. They can’t invade South Korea, let alone America. The only way it could be realistic is if they have an Obama-esque weak quisling President who invites them in…
more gubment waste…they dyed the capitol fountain green
so they will have to dump the water and re-fill Friday.
Obama can’t figure out why they are laughing at him:
Weak and irresolute would be about the best they can see in this White House. Colombia has reason to be pissed, with the way Obama has side-tracked free trade. We have free trade with China, but not Colombia. One might suspect that Obama is pissed about the way the Colombians have treated the FARC…
Bureaucat wrote:
And that speech has intimidated the civilized the world.
@ Iron Fist:
Imagine if the Soviets had today’s AMerica as an enemy? They would of clean our clocks!
New DOD.
Get over Pam Geller already
@ PaladinPhil:
A worthy goal. Beatin da system, stickin it to
da man , or actually da Devil.
@ MikeA:
Looks like they needed good lookin wimmings to distract from the lame control panel props.
@ Rodan:
I suspect the un-Mata Hari is no longer part of the picture…
@ Rodan:
Obama is weaker than Carter, who was a wimp. If we had an enemy on the scale of the Soviets, we would be in far deeper shit than we find ourselves, and we are up to your eyebrows in it as is.
coldwarrior wrote:
Wow, Japanese exposure limits are serious strict. About 100 time more strict than when I worked at San Onofre. 0.17 millisieverts per hour or .017 millirems, exposure levels at San Onofre when I was there was 2 millirems per hour.
Iron Fist wrote:
She probably left screaming & waving her arms.
@ Iron Fist:
To expound on Nevergiveup and my point on Red Dawn. Imagine a Leftist version where Israel, Colombia and Serbia invade. Instead of a resistance, the American Right welcomes them as liberators!
Oh wait!
@ RIX:
She or he. Chuck is unsalvagable. Anyone with sense would run away screaming.
@ Rodan:
Never happen. Things that good don’t happen to me
RIX wrote:
Actually when his blog quit bringing in money he probably dumped her because he couldn’t afford to drive down here to see her any more.
Rodan wrote:
ROTFLMAO… God forbid Hollyweird be even remotely realistic, if they were Red Dawn would have Mexico invading…
Just who are the Ceylons anyway?
doriangrey wrote:
UHHH, that would be a documentary!
Iron Fist wrote:
It’s true. The guy is a loon & getting worse.
He has created his own reality, “I never said that”
“Noone ever got banned for just disagreeing.”
@ doriangrey:
That would be laughable as well since Mexico doesn’t even control its own territory.
I don’t get why they didn’t leave it as China/Russia as they originally intended.
@ doriangrey:
Maybe she just left because she got tired of Johnson
hitting her up for money.
She will need some serious therapy.
Iron Fist wrote:
That would be a funny scenario Israel, Colombia and Serbia invading (liberating) the US to get rid of the Obama regime. That would be a cool plot for a movie.
Rodan wrote:
They may not control their own territory, but they have sent 35 million of their citizens here illegally if that doesnt quality as an invasion, then what the hell does?
@ Rodan:
The trailers all have the freaking Chinese flag all over the place. That is a pretty major re-write. PC bullshit run amok. I no longer even want to see the flick. If they are going to change that, who knows what else they will PC sanatize?
RIX wrote:
Hmmm, could be, “She” was the one buying the wine and cheese when I saw them here.
I’m going to protest this.
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Iron Fist wrote:
It’s sad we can no longer make movies about our rivals. This iskens me.
@ doriangrey:
Wait! You saw Johnson with the woman?
Iron Fist wrote:
In the original Red Dawn one of my favorite scenes was where Jed asks Col. Tanner, well who is on our side, and Tanner spits a mouth full of whiskey into the fire and says, 350 million screaming China-men. Jed says, I thought there were a billion Chin-men, and Tanner responds… There were…
RIX wrote:
Ya, I posted all about it here at the time.
@ doriangrey:
Missed it, what does she look like?
Macker wrote:
hey I would take one for the team
and do one of them thar Cylon gals
@ doriangrey:
I was just thinking about that scene.
Rodan
etal
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Good example of msm liberal bull shit in this but does tell the story.
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RIX wrote:
Persian, about 5’2″ and very attractive ( Similar to Yasmin le Bon actually). Since she was buying a bottle of wine, which is no no for moderate or fundamentalist Muslims I would guess she is a typical Southern California Iranian Expat, Muslim in name only if Muslim at all.
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New leaders in the House and Seante
This Pres. is a sitting “X President” he has layed down and quit, sulled up.
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BBL
@ taxfreekiller:
88%. If we could only kick Obama out by that percentage. That would be sweet…
@ doriangrey:
Thanks. Ok, he attracted a good looking woman, who
knew?
Just saw a clip of Schumer. He is advising Boehner
to ignore the Tea Party.
He says that deals can be reached if he just ignores
the more “extreme” elements of the Republican Party.
@ RIX:
We know she’s not in it for the money…
@ doriangrey:
Had to be a neighbor. There is no way on God’s green earth that chuckie could get a hot chick. I’ll never believe it. He’s too… icky.
@ m:
And he’s too… BROKE.
@ RIX:
Yes, it is Darth Vader trying to get Luke to come to the Dark Side, without the cool uniform. If Boehner does it, we need to get rid of him. We have to purify the Republican Party before we can take on the Progs, and we have to take on the Progs before we can defeate the Muzz. Politics is War.
@ m:
Hitch-hiker he picked up?
@ Iron Fist:
Or abducted. Maybe he had Stinky holding her little dog hostage so he could be seen with her, lol.
@ taxfreekiller:
Wow, that is good news!
@ doriangrey:
I dated a Persian American. They are good people and HATE the Arabs.
@ m:
It puts the lotion on its skin, and then it puts it in the basket!
RIX wrote:
Boehner is such a disappointment. He is worse than mccain. There is no way to understand the crying.
He’s off in the head.
wow, schumer advising him to ignore the people who won him the house. That’s rich.
Damn are we going to have to go to a 3rd party?
@ m:
I’ll buy you abootle of wine!
Good morning and love the Avatar!
Very fitting!
Iron Fist wrote:
We know that with certainty.
m wrote:
Had to be a neighbor. There is no way on God’s green earth that chuckie could get a hot chick. I’ll never believe it. He’s too… icky.
Agree.
I love your avatar, today. How cute.
RIX wrote:
I’m not surprised actually, if you watch the old TV interviews of him, say around 2003, 2004, he was a very calm rational and intelligent appearing individual. He was a world renowned jazz musician and internet blogging super-star. What ever happened to him around 2006/7 that made him flip-out and go all raving batshit crazy hit pretty damned hard and fast.
Since then it’s like he has had a full on psychotic episode, slipped into some permanent schizophrenic mental disorder that progressively gets worse or something.
@ Iron Fist:
If Boehner takes Schumers advice, he will make
a serious mistake. The Tea party drove the last
election & they are more experienced for
2012.
@ chickadee:
I hope not, it would just elect Democrats.
m wrote:
ROTFLMAO, probably not, since the frame around the license plate of the Hyundai they were driving was from a San Diego community. (Serra Mesa if I recall correctly)
@ doriangrey:
Yup, seems like a head case to me.
See ya later.
Charles Johnson is just a run of the mill liberal Democrat commie of the love the dole mode they have, same old shit, same old ability to lie to himself and belive that commie bull shit.
He is the same as he always was, and will be.
That part did not bother me in the least. The way he treated good people like Realwest did piss me off, as that was over the line.
He can be all the commie he wants, but back stabing good people, no.
like that
Go commie, just not on my dime.
Leave the back stabing out of it.
Rodan wrote:
I’ve known a few as well, and yes the ones who arent Muslims are great people, and oh so fun to party with, Ahhh, the food, the dancing and the topics of discussion, not to mention the more “Persian” they are the more stunningly attractive the women tend to be…
BBIAB time to take someone to school…
@ Rodan:
I’ll hold you to that!
Good morning to you as well!
54 R’s did vote no on the CR.
The RINO’s did like always, they attacked conservatives rather than attack the commie thug Democrats.
RINO’s are the rat problem.
Not one major thing the commie Democrats got done in the last 20 years would have been done except for the RINO’s crossing over and stabing U.S. in the back.
The worst Democrats go first, then the RINO’s and if we can manage, some of both in 2012.
If it was easy we could have some one else do the dirty work for U.S. but we will have to get our ass’s in the fight.
@ chickadee:
Thanks!
Seriously – he has no personality, no looks, no class, no intelligence, no money …
The only thing he has to offer is an assload of psycho-phants with their updingers at the ready.
!
Ew.
@ doriangrey:
Nobody I know every heard of the guy!
@ doriangrey:
Doesn’t matter. Being seen with him doesn’t mean “being with him”. Oh God, perish the thought!
BRAIN BLEACH STAT!
Lessons from Libya for Dictators in Distress
Rick Richman 03.16.2011 – 8:19 AM
1. If you want to remain in power, you need to do more than send a man on a camel into crowds. Declare war on your people; hire other people to help out.
2. Do not worry if the U.S. president says you must “step down” and “leave.” It is only his personal opinion.
3. To ensure that the president does not focus unduly on your war, schedule it while he is preoccupied with other matters: a Motown concert, a conference on bullying, his golf game, and finalizing his Final Four picks.
4. Declare that the opposition is not “organic.” The president will not assist a non-organic revolution. If the revolution is organic, do not worry: an organic revolution is by definition one he does not need to assist. Either way, you’re fine.
5. Recognize that your membership on the UN Human Rights Council will be suspended — the president will send his secretary of state there to ensure that. Do not start a war against your people if you are not prepared for this.
6. Do not worry about a “no-fly zone” or some other U.S. military response. The president will consider it only if the world speaks with one voice. The world includes Russia, China, and Turkey.
7. Remember when the president adopted his Afghanistan policy after an extensive “review;” selected his own general to implement it; got the general’s recommendations; and then held endless meetings before finally reluctantly approving them? That was about a war he was already in. He will need many more meetings than that before he considers any new action against you.
8. You may eventually be subject to sanctions, so check to see if they’ve worked yet with Cuba, North Korea, or Iran.
9. Consider restarting your nuclear program, since the conditions that caused you to suspend it are gone. At most, the president will form a committee of several nations to talk to you; he will consider more sanctions if the world speaks as one. You need not worry about his “deadlines.”
10. There is basically only one thing you do need to worry about: do not, under any circumstances, approve any future Jewish housing in Jerusalem. The president will go ballistic if you do.
@ taxfreekiller:
Yes, that is 100% correct. The RINOs have been a thorn in our side since 1995, and that includes Gingrich. All he was interested in doing was making himself Chancellor. We didn’t need a chancellor. We needed a good Republican Speaker of the House. Something we haven’t had yet. Cantor shoudl have challenged Boehnor. The Republicans are all too tolerant of RINOs in their midsts. That must change.
@ m:
Maybe she was an “escort”? A geisha, kind of? But where would he get the money for that? He is one step above KKKilgore hunting garden snails/slugs for meat broke…
Now that it is basically over, Obama wants the UN to authorize us going to war with Libya. Can we pray Russia vetos it?
Rodan wrote:
Cough cough, I actually had, cough cough. Which isnt saying all that much as you know what I think of his skill and talent levels. But since I played quite a bit of Jazz while in college it really isnt surprising that I had heard of him. The only reason I heard of him was because of is association with Stanley Clarke, and that conversation usually went like this, “Wow, that sure doesnt sound like Al Di Meola, ya it’s not, it’s some guy named Charles Johnson” and that would be the end of it, never any discussion of his skill or talent.
@ Iron Fist:
RINO’s make the Dems seem not as bad.
RINO’s make some people lose faith in the political system.
RINO’s make some people want a third party.
Much better chance of getting rid of the RINO’s than starting up a successful third party, especially since 2012 is so critical.
Windows at Washington, D.C. Republican Office Shot Out
Those mean ass rethuglicans!
/oh wait…
More on how the ATF was running guns into Mexico so that they could say that American guns were being ran to the drug cartels from the US. They were creating a crime problem that they’d then “solve” by going after the rights of law abiding American citizens. I think that it is time to defund the BATF. As for guns going south, well, if we’d seal the border, that wouldn’t be happening to whatever degree it actually is happening.
@ Prebanned:
I agree. We’ll stay within the Party if we can. Drive out the RINOs. I have no use for them. For example, any fucker that voted for Kagan might as well be a moderate Democrat. I laugh when people say the Democrats approch teach state differently. Name me one actual moderate Democrat by voting record. There isn’t one. There hasn’t been one for many years. Zell Miller may have been the absolute last one.
doriangrey wrote:
That right there speaks volumes.
MikeA wrote:
Was the scriptwriter named Charles Johnson?
PaladinPhil wrote:
He was the epitome of the term hired sideman. And in all fairness, Al Di Meola shoes are some damned seriously big shoes to fill. My best guess is that Stanley Clarke hired Chuck quite frankly because he got tired of Al Di Meola always getting better billing then him, Charles was competent, but no threat to Stanley’s limelight.
Macker wrote:
Isn’t that that island off the coast of India where they grow a lot of tea? Or is that Keynesia?
Iron Fist wrote:
Moderate democrats are democrats in areas that would have gone republican if the people werent so sick of RINO’s.
Moderate democrats vote against thier party whenever thier vote doesn’t count, this helps them claim to be moderate.
Moderate democrats always vote with thier party when the chips are down and the vote is needed.
RINO’s are the opposite.
@ The Osprey:
Like I said yesterday, I have become convinced that what Obama is hiding on his birth certificate (and it is clear he is hiding something), is that it lists his race as “Caucasian”. Teh Black Jesus® couldn’t survive that revelation, so he is willing to go to any length to hide it. It makes sense. He was born in a liberal leaning state after the end of seggregation, so they naturally recorded his race as the same as his mother’s.
The Osprey wrote:
Ceylons would be the occupants of Sri Lanka… Like Arther C Clark…
Iron Fist wrote:
Caucasian and a British citizen…
No I aint buying the BS that Frank Marshal Davis is his real father. He doesnt look anything like Frank Marshal Davis, but he does look quite a bit like Barack Obama Sr.
The original is still the best. So are it’s t-shirts.
Wolverines!
@ doriangrey:
He looks more like Malcolm the Tenth than either FMD or BO Sr.
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