{"id":4767,"date":"2009-05-12T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2009-05-12T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:08:03","slug":"raise-your-hand-if-youre-not-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4767","title":{"rendered":"Raise Your Hand If You&#8217;re Not Shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of <em>Red Dawn<\/em>, from yesterday&#8217;s discussion; once I heard that Hollywood &#8211; as in Big Hollywood, not John Milius, the author and director of the original &#8211; was going to remake the movie, I wondered: in today&#8217;s PC environment, just <em>who <\/em>would be air-dropping into our plucky Colorado town?<\/p>\n<p>I figured the most likely suspects would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fundamentalist white Christians<\/li>\n<li>Jewish settlers<\/li>\n<li>Catholic Priests<\/li>\n<li>Wall Street Hedge-Fund Managers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I was almost relieved &#8211; and only briefly so &#8211; to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondhollywood.com\/plot-details-from-red-dawn-reboot\/\">the breakdown<\/a>, from a leaked version of the script:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bad guys\/invaders will now be the Red Chinese, who knocks off America in the first 20 pages, and gets help from those stinkin\u2019 Russians later in the movie. The cause of the invasion? Oil, of course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I did say briefly, didn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are hints that America is kinda to blame, too. In today\u2019s PC environment, that\u2019s not too much of a surprise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; Our heroes: Jed is now a former Marine back from Iraq and Matt his high school star quarterback brother; Erica is now an Asian-American cheerleader; and Danny is the African-American star running back<br \/>\n. Basically, all the original characters will return (including keeping the same names) but as different archetypes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I dunno.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see quite the same <em>angst <\/em>about the Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>(Yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Red Dawn, from yesterday&#8217;s discussion; once I heard that Hollywood &#8211; as in Big Hollywood, not John Milius, the author and director of the original &#8211; was going to remake the movie, I wondered: in today&#8217;s PC environment, just who would be air-dropping into our plucky Colorado town? I figured the most likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}