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www.einsiders.com - : Writer director John Milius is known for macho, balls-to-the-wall screenplays and movies. His ending for ''Apocalypse Now'' was to brutal for Coppola. His movie ''Dillinger'' is one of the best gangster films ever made. Oh Yeah, Milius was the guy who wrote the script for that peace loving San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan in a little known movie called ''Dirty Harry.'' I like John Milius. Even though he tends to go overboard with his xenophobic paranoia every once in a while. His paranoid masterpiece has to be ''Red Dawn'' (1984). Made at the height of the Reagan administration, ''Red Dawn'' poses the what if question concerning an invasion of America by the Soviet block. These were the days in which the bad after taste of Vietnam and Watergate were being washed out of America’s collective mouth. President Reagan had publicly called the Soviet Union ''The Evil Empire.'' ''Red Dawn'' was a patriotic breath mint to help teenagers feel proud of our country again. more...
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