Red Dawn

Effect of Cold War Films on Public The U.S.A. and USSR were taught to despise each other through harsh propaganda. The military between the two suffered massive tension, that was enough to escalate into World War 3. Filmmakers portrayed the public view on the cold war. The Day After is a film that captured the emotional intensity of the cold war. Red Dawn displayed a good example for the predictions of what could have happened if the cold war escalated into a World War. Rocky IV is a great metaphorical film that symbolized the tensions and reactions of the USSR and U.S.A. There was a tense relationship between the USSR and U.S.A. Filmmakers rendered these relations and views of the cold war. In The Day After, Filmmakers exemplify the immense
Red Dawn is about several teenagers rebelling against the invasion of the Soviet Army. “Red Dawn is extraordinarily violent – its body count is actually higher than the R-rated Rambo: First Blood Part II, released a year later, and was once hailed as the most violent movie ever by the Guinness Book of Records” (Lambie, Ryan). It is amusing that MPAA gave Red Dawn a PG-13 rating, which is lenient considering the high amount of people that are shot and blown up, with a rate of 134 acts of violence per hour. This may be because of the desire to make this movie flourish and expand to all audiences to make them aware of the possible crisis that could have escalated. Red Dawn, however, rarely included any U.S. military action. The message could portray that the U.S.A. would be too weak to fight back. Red Dawn was the 20th highest grossing film of 1984, opening on 10 August 1984 in 1,822 theatres and taking in $8,230,381 on its first weekend. Its box office gross is $38,376,497. Red Dawn was effective enough to the public that it sparked up a
The U.S. Hockey Team was made up of mostly college boys. As these future professional hockey players were practicing, America was undergoing major economic and political/military depression because of the Cold War. The U.S. had no hope to recover, especially under all the terrorist attacks and the Soviet’s missile threats. Americans lost a lot of pride in their country. However, one hockey game changed everything. When the young U.S. team was up against the undefeated Russian team, it was expected that the USSR would win and win by a lot. Instead, the U.S. beat the Russians. Therefore, they won the Olympic gold medal for hockey. That was a proud moment in the U.S., where all the lost pride was