Why don’t we just shoot right at them?
Red Dawn Redux? Can you improve on perfection? And if not, then why try?
I invite you to leave your favourite quotes in the comments.
6 comments Monday 19 May 2008 | SlantyOD | SlantyNet - General
Red Dawn Redux? Can you improve on perfection? And if not, then why try?
I invite you to leave your favourite quotes in the comments.
6 comments Monday 19 May 2008 | SlantyOD | SlantyNet - General
I’ll start!
Col. Andy Tanner: [using a crude diorama, the Wolverines prepare for an assault on the Calumet Drive-In, which is now a Russo-Cuban "Re-education Camp"] All right. Four planes. Cuban bunker, Russian bunker. munitions dump, troop tents. Four machine gun bunkers. Back here by the drive-in screen are your political prisoners. We’ll cause a diversion over here… cut holes in the wire here, fire on all these machine gun positions. The B-Group comes across this area in a flanking maneuver… and when you reach this bunker, you lay down grazing fire on this defilade. I think that’s pretty simple. Anybody got any questions so far?
Aardvark: What’s a “flank?”
Toni: What’s a “defilade?”
Robert: What’s “grazing fire?”
Col. Andy Tanner: [out loud, to himself] I need a drink.
Oh oh oh! I want in!
Radio Free America Announcer : It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: “the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall”, “john has a long mustache, john has a long mustache”.
***
Erica: You American?
Col. Andy Tanner: Red-blooded.
Erica: What’s the capital of Texas?
Col. Andy Tanner: Austin.
Erica: Wrong, commie! It’s Houston.
***
Robert: Wolverines!
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Jed Eckert: How did you get shot down, Colonel?
Col. Andy Tanner: It was five to one. I got four.
***
Col. Andy Tanner: …The Russians need to take us in one piece, and that’s why they’re here. That’s why they won’t use nukes anymore; and we won’t either, not on our own soil. The whole damn thing’s pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.
Darryl Bates: What started it?
Col. Andy Tanner: I don’t know. Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later, they’re gonna fight.
Jed Eckert: That simple, is it?
Col. Andy Tanner: Or maybe somebody just forget what it was like.
Jed Eckert: …Well, who *is* on our side?
Col. Andy Tanner: Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.
Darryl Bates: Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.
Col. Andy Tanner: There *were*.
[he throws whiskey on the fire; it ignites violently, suggesting a nuclear explosion]
I was trying to look up the quote about Daryl’s dad’s car.. but I found this on Wikipedia which I thought was way funnier:
Taglines:
- In our time, no foreign army has ever occupied American soil. Until now.
- The invading armies planned for everything—except for eight kids called “The Wolverines.�
- 8:44 A.M. A full scale military invasion by foreign troops begins. Total surprise. Almost total success. A gang of high school kids become the last line of defense.
The original tagline for the movie was “No foreign army has ever occupied American soil.â€? This had to be changed because it was factually inaccurate. The British Army captured Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812 and set fire to the White House and other buildings. Fort Detroit was held by the British Army and Canadian militia and British forces from Nova Scotia captured most of Northern Maine in 1814 to occupy it until the war’s end.
Also good value are there Red Dawn “mistakes”. Here’s my favourite:
Factual error: The Russians use a beeping “radio direction finder” to find the partisans by detecting a bug swallowed by the Mayor’s son. In closeups the “direction finder” is seen to be an impedance meter (used for measuring AC resistance) – it’s labeled “X=(down arrow) x (up arrow)(omega)”. X is the standard abbreviation for impedance, omega means “ohms” (the unit of impedance/resistance), so the label says “impedance is lower dial times upper dial, in ohms”. There is a piece of spiral twisted wire across the terminals of the impedance meter which would be useless for radio direction finding.
Just goes to show how the quality of movies has degraded over the years. I’m sure 2D noticed.
Well, I had noticed a long time ago that the ‘directional meter’ that the Russians used appeared pretty much useless. As the gadget was swung around trying to find the location of the bug, the meter arm would swing wildly around, and not really point to anything at any given time.
And yeah, I do remember the ohm symbol on the gadget, but not so sure that I remember the ‘X’. And as for me remembering the ‘X’ is for impedance….you’re giving me too much credit there.
That, and the beeping only got faster/more intense when they were about 10 feet away from the bug. Not much good for trying to track something down in a big ol’ forest.
“Avenge me boys! Avenge me!!!”
I *think* the quote went :
“That’s the mayor’s car. That’s Daryl’s dad’s car!”