Red Dawn Remake...Please Do Not!

Remaking "Red Dawn," a film that portrays the then very real concerns of Soviet preemptive attack, would be rather easy in the Post-9/11 world. The media has served to feed the American citizenry with a continuous and ostensibly incredulous stream of bull-shit. Hollywood has capitalized on the trend and produced movies depicting Islamic terrorists demolishing large structures and authors have banked on the aforementioned tragedy by convincing us that America's demise is imminent.

The corny and rather redneck scenarios that interplay in "Red Dawn," a movie that depicts the unlikely invasion of Soviet trips into small-town America via means of parachutes, could be vastly improved upon. I could not help but internally chuckle as I observed the ridiculous escape of a few citizens and their safety from the occupying force.

It has been an all-too-popular and slovenly production trend to portray the physical invasion of an occupying national military. Our increasingly globalizing society has reiterated that future terrorist attacks will likely aim to detriment and destroy technological and intellectual capital, rather than, to conspicuously target exceedingly tall skyscrapers. Said attacks entail the type of sophistication only made recently available in the twenty-first century and would significantly cripple the day-to-day financial, physical and infrastructure operations of America.

Producing a cerebral film about the catastrophic, terrorist-provoked explosion of America's technological, energy and infrastructure grid would be undoubtedly difficult to attract the dollars and attention span of a nation largely obsessed with seeing how many pounds, dollars and 15 minutes of fame their fellow citizens can attain by participating in mindless reality programs.

The time has come, however, when the true effects of our disproportionately powered tech economy and an attack on it should be elucidated. Think about the aftermath. ATM's would not function, stop lights would cease to provide adequate protection against the insanity of our signal controlled traffic, energy facilities would be unable to generate power, airlines would be without direction, and Blackberry and iPhone consumers across the country would protest and angrily bitch about the dysfunction of it all. The film of technological disaster could illustrate the danger, disillusionment, and humor that a situation of such a magnitude could inspire.

In the interest of further creative liberties, however, the attack would need to be depicted as transpiring under the watch of the previous administration. The current president's anticipatory and contingency operations could potentially dull the imagery, by quelling the situation with strategy and intelligent insight.

Corey Scott-Vincent-William Dutra