How China’s Growing Clout Led Hollywood to Look for a New Villain

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When MGM decided to reboot ‘Red Dawn’ decades after the Cold War, the most obvious Communist aggressor was China. That proved to be a costly miscalculation.

In 2008, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. desperately needed something familiar. The studio was fending off bankruptcy, so executives scoured the studio’s library of old movies to see what could be remade. Soon a contender emerged: “Red Dawn.”

The 1984 hit film starred Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze as teenage football players whose hometown is invaded by Communist forces from the Soviet Union. The high-school students grab hunting rifles and fashion homemade bombs. The Cold War had cast Soviets as the evil-empire threat to the U.S. Across the multiplex around the same time, Rocky boxed a Soviet fighter named Ivan Drago and John Rambo mowed down Communist soldiers.

 

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Give it a few years…

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How about the Portland city council

If Hollywood isn’t promoting the typical white savior movies it’s pushing State Department propaganda.

Some movies just don’t need to be remade

Good thing as a mortal, put more stock in faith. Arc moves towards justice when Humankind decides to step into the light, and stop bathing in the dark.

It's aways a roll of the dice the big. R..or the big C

Senator Max Baucus: McCarthy type rhetoric today of US to China like Nazi Germany: “a lot of people knew what's going on was wrong but didn’t stand up n say anything about it.”

It sucked too.

The American policy seems to be confused which one to chose Russia or China to start a new Cold War

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