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From: robert@hpfcnml.UUCP (robert)
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Subject: Red Dawn and Formula Films
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Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 16:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 16:40:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpfcnml!robert    Aug 13 12:40:00 1984

I think the age of the formula film is here.  It seems that the point of
a movie is to get P% of the target audience to go see the movie by
studying the audience first then writing up a movie for it.  I guess
Disney has been doing that for a long time.  If I choose the people that
follow that good old all american red neck philosophy as my target
audience what will we want in the film?  Let's look in at the film company
board room meeting.

"Let's have some ideas boys."

"Right J.R."
"I think we could play off of the distrust for foreigners."
"We need some hunting sences."

"What does a red neck hate most?  We'll need an enemy, boys."

"I got it J.R.!  Commies."

"Sounds good.  Any more ideas?"

"How 'bout this J.R., we'll go hunting commies in the woods."
"Yeah, and we could have comments against gun control."
"Right, and we could tell stories about how them commie dogs
treat out women and children!"
"And J.R. we can have them mexicans that have been coming over
the border be spies!"
"We can have lots of good fighting and killing."

"This sounds like it will make a great movie.  We can play off
of xenophobia and machoism.  I'm sure that flag waving will
fit right in!  Get some scriptwriters on it right away.
Okay boys, what is the next target market on the agenda?"

This movie was so thick with cliches I spent more time watching for
the next one than following the empty plot.  This movie came off
as a shot'm up in the old western since.  Our guys kill the bad guys
with out loss of life until it gets dull and then we lose people with
a few clean bullet holes.  But no loss, our guys characters weren't
very well developed anyway.

Summary:  red neck shoot'm up.   I give this one, one bunny.

			Robert (animal) Heckendorn
			hplabs!hpfcla!robert