Black people, do you know what Red Dawn is? Because white people are lighting my ass up about it. You’d think it was John Hughes the way they’re carrying on…
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i do, but that’s because i saw it in high school by way of a proto-maga history teacher
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And yet, even though John Milius prides himself on being to the right of Attila the Hun, the movie is a complicated, realistic & empathetic portrait of a guerrilla insurgency, quite unlike anything in American cinema.
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A few thoughts in here on its significance from a Third World perspective back in the ‘80shttps://tonykaron.substack.com/p/red-dawn-and-the-revival-of-cold …
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Thanks, will read with interest.
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