The Rogue Stitch

From a Colorado I will never know:

Hey, remember when the Russians and Cubans landed in Calumet, CO? Yeah, they just dropped by one day right in the middle of history class and all we had to resist them with was that chick from Back to the Future (who was the natural choice since she had that whole revolutionary/freedom fighter look going on). Kinda like Goonies meets Apocalypse Now, right?



Oh yeah, and we had the dirty dancer herself, Ferris Bueller's sister, Jennifer Grey:



Yup. Red Dawn. Great movie. First one to get a PG-13 rating. All-star cast. Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, the two aforementioned ladies, Powers Boothe of Deadwood fame.



So get this: 5 parachutists were blown off course in shooting the opening scene. One of them, Jim Fisher, wound up stuck in a tree and had to plead for his life with the locals 'cause they thought he was a veritable Russian soldier. Way to go, Comrade.

My favorite quote from the movie:

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.



So, there's a reason for bringing up this relic of a film from the bygone days of the Reagan era. No, I don't harbor any remnants of Cold War paranoia.

It's this video of an Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot. And by "full auto" the director means fully automatic machine guns with which to blow shit up. Judging by the age of the featured participant, I highly doubt a Red Dawn scenario could ever play out on our soil. Enjoy.

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