On Friday, I saw Total Recall (which made me think of Blade Runner throughout all its rainy, congested Asian-filled Colony scenes). But before that new feature film about mind control, there was the first showing of the trailer for Red Dawn. A movie trailer about an invading Asian army was being shown before another film about an invading army. Marketing.
Principal photography began for the new Red Dawn in September 2009, in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Historically, Mount Clemens' largest industry use to be the mineral baths that were scattered throughout the city from 1873 until 1974. The city once encompassed 11 bathhouses and several hotels at its peak. The first bathhouse was built in 1873 and was known as “The Original” and was located on the corner of Jones and Water Street. The bathhouse remained until 1883 when the building burned, yet was rebuilt in 1884 and accommodated larger crowds. Over the years, noted visitors such as film actors Clark Gable and Mae West, athletes Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey, news magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the Vanderbilt family vacationed in the city for the bath industry.
Wallpaper Art by Ben Burgraff
One of most well-known recent residents born in Mount Clemens is Dean Cain (born Dean George Tanaka; July 31, 1966), the actor who is most famous for starring as Clark Kent/Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Cain ended up moving to Santa Monica, California, and playing on the baseball team there with Charlie Sheen, who in 1984 would be a character in the first Red Dawn. Cain is also remembered as the host of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! from 1999-2003.
The other trailer after the one for Red Dawn? Man of Steel, the new Superman movie, due Summer 2013.
Needless to say, after all I've written here lately about Colorado Aurora (red dawn), the timing seemed strange that after delaying the Red Dawn film from 2009-2010, now is the year this repeat of the 1984 political thriller is going to be released. After the 2012 election.
Chinese invaders were part of the story for the 2009 filmmaking. But Red Dawn was not released in 2010. Now Northern Korean invaders have been edited in for the November 21, 2012 release.
The lead hero Jed Eckert (meaning, "strong," "brave," with the Scottish Eckert clan, also spelled Urquhart, being from Loch Ness, Scotland) is played by Chris Hemsworth. He has recently played Thor in three Thor/Avengers movies and the Huntsman in Snow White and the Huntsman.
The 1984 trailer.
Needless to say, after all I've written here lately about Colorado Aurora (red dawn), the timing seemed strange that after delaying the Red Dawn film from 2009-2010, now is the year this repeat of the 1984 political thriller is going to be released. After the 2012 election.
Iconic imagery is repeated.
The group shot from 1984 and 2012.
The 2010 poster.
Before Thor, the youthful Australian actor was a virtual unknown here in the United States. But he played “Kim Hyde” on 171 episodes of Home and Away, the successful Australian TV series where Heath Ledger (the Joker in The Dark Knight) started. Hemsworth is doing a sequel, Thor: The Dark World, which is set for release November 8, 2013. Natalie Portman plays "Jane Foster," an astrophysicist and Thor's love interest.
It apparently continues to be a time for comic book superheroes and cinematic wars. The red dawn this way comes.
"You remind me of someone...a man I met in a half-remembered dream.He was possessed of some radical notions."~ Christopher Nolan, Inception
The 1984 trailer.
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For the links to other recent postings about
Colorado's Aurora's red dawn symbolism, please see also:
Recent interviews, about the Aurora shootings:
(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Sources as attributed above in embedded links, as well as mixes and various tidbits from Wikipedia.
Sources as attributed above in embedded links, as well as mixes and various tidbits from Wikipedia.
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