Easy to check that John Milius was not “blacklisted by Hollywood” after the 1984 Red Dawn.

He had several credited projects credited as writer or director, including Farewell to the King, Clear and Present Danger, the HBO series Rome, Flight of the Intruder, and the upcoming series Genghis Khan.

Lance Armstrong, all American boy.

So now that we’re approaching White genocide,
Is RD really a thing?
The approaching army will be under Old Glory.
And rape is reely reely a thing.
Yo ded witey.
-Gen. George Floyd Austin III.

I recall watching Red Dawn many years ago.

I wonder if the Wolverines would have been more effective in re-capturing their country had they instead written articles, tweeted, memed and held conferences in hotels.

Red Dawn should really be re-written for today. This time, the enemy faced emerges from within.

The updated version would feature no armed resistance or militancy in any form. The heros found a way to hurl non-lethal rounds of apathy at their countrys’ enemies while riding around on specially bred unicorns.

Americans spend and consume their way to their own personal freedoms.

Milius is a jew. I know, I know he as a Roman sounding name. Nuff said.

Every popular movie, even comedies like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, was infiltrated by U.S. Govt agencies such as the Dept of Defense. They are aware if American couch-slobs try to imitate Red Dawn.

http://download1097.mediafire.com/yxrehtw6d9kg/q89n4x9f14onr72/DODfilmlist.pdf

Red Dawn is a cold-war relic, when movies regularly bestowed super-power abilities to the Soviets to make them a more serious foe.

The idea that somehow they could sneak the hundreds (or thousands) of divisions required to invade and occupy the USA, somehow into Cuba / Central America to stage this event, is ultra-silly.

The reality of the 1980s is that the Soviets were broke, we had to feed them for fuck’s sakes. I still remember when Gorby visited Saskatchewan, he couldn’t believe how productive the place is. Same black soil as Ukraine you fucking commie bastard, it ain’t rocket science.

I’d like to think Americans even today would respond to a hot war, more readily than this “softer” approach – that is by immigration / open borders.

My amateurish read is that hundreds of thousands of Americans would quickly form citizens’ militias and harass any invading force, attack supply trains etc., in no small measure because many of them grew up watching “Red Dawn” or playing “Fortress America” etc.

I will join any militia whose main goal is to overthrow the Jew-owned & managed government in Washington D.C. If they make any movie about patriots defending this country, it should be showing them fighting America’s Jew-managed, diverse, tranny military. Let’s have a working title of “Jew Dawn” for the movie.

I believe his father was a Jew, as Mr. Unz’s is. That doesn’t make him a Jew.

Milius was not blacklisted.

He made RED DAWN when stuff like RAMBO was hot.

Anti-commie stuff was all the rage.

WHITE NIGHTS for instance.

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Milius fell out of favor because his stuff increasingly became unbankable.

FAREWELL TO THE KING, EXTREME PREJUDICE, and FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER bombed.

What does RED DAWN have to do with reality? Russia gonna invade us?

Jewish Capital, not Soviet arms, took over.

RED DAWN is really Viet Cong envy. In the movie, Americans get to play the underdog role of the Viet Cong. They get to be the underdog.

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A short time after Red Dawn opened, the Soviet Empire collapsed. People were dancing on the Berlin Wall. None of our eggheads in the overpaid State Dept or pentagon saw it coming. They had such a wonderful scam going for 50+ years, and hated to let it go.

Well OK.
We can use at least one lawyer
on this board.

Lance Armstrong, all American boy.

Actually, all American boys and girls:

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It was a generational turnover which caught many people off guard. The Soviet economy had been showing low rates of growth since the mid-60s, and this had set in at a time when the quality of consumer goods was still below par. But there was no sign of an economic collapse until Gorbachev unleashed perestroika. The Soviet economy could have gone on for several more decades, and with a more competent leadership things could have been adjusted without setting loose a disaster.

What happened in 1982-5 was that a rapid succession of deaths of aging leaders brought a younger generation to power very suddenly. The newer generation of bureaucrats were ready to buy into anything which Reagan/Thatcher had to sell. They weren’t like Deng in China, seeking some way to reorient the country while preserving what had been achieved. They were desperately ready to throw themselves at the feet of Western leaders simply because they felt alienated from the older Soviet generation of bureaucrats. This really was something difficult to predict.

Red Dawn is a pop culture classic — even if it did ensure John Milius would be blacklisted from Hollywood.

How was that supposed to have happened? Hollywood greenlighted a film and then blacklisted its writer/director? That would have been a strange modus operandi. Of course none of that happened and Gregory Hood is just inventing stuff.
Red Dawn was a moderate success and is still rerun on TV. Milius’ star started to fade after Flight of the Intruder, which was a flop. Different times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius

Overestimating Soviet power was a cottage industry in Wash DC. Fear helped to feed the ever growing MIC. I recall seeing aerial photos of massive Russian tank formations. Rows upon rows.
It was discovered later that none of the tanks had engines.
The Soviets knew how to play the Americans.

> Overestimating Soviet power was a cottage industry in Wash DC.

That was definitely true. The USSR was never as strong as Cold War propaganda made it seem, nor was it as weak as people came to believe after watching the collapse brought about by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. The USSR was far behind on the development of computer technology and other breakthroughs which happened in the West in 1970-2000. But the type of collapse which followed from perestroika policies was not anywhere in sight in 1980-5. At that point one could see a slow-moving economy which still had a lot of life left in it.

Perestroika was a policy which didn’t simply allow local factory managers more room for decision-making (that was already being done in China since 1978). Perestroika simply through the responsibility over to the local factory managers in a context where no system of market signals had been developed. That led to a type of chaos which did not occur in China. The local managers were now suddenly overnight expected to operate the factory as if they knew what the market demand really was. Things like that can only form over time, and this was why Deng did not take such a drastic approach in China. The Chinese government after 1978 retained the power to act as a guiding hand, even though such power was used much less.

The reason that intelligence forecasts were caught off-guard by events in the USSR was that no one had really expected a new generation of Soviet leadership to take such a stark Reagan/Thatcher approach. If someone had proposed that a new post-Brezhnev Soviet leader was likely to follow a path similar to Deng in China, then that could have sounded reasonable. But no practical economic reason existed to justify the path which Gorbachev took.

1984: Hollywood was liberal but not woke. 2024: Hollywood is cultist — race/gender/climate — and broke.