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** For the remake, the enemies were changed from Chinese to [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316,0,995726.story North Koreans]. The studio claims this is because North Korea will make a scarier villain, but most observers believe this was done to avoid losing box office revenues in China. This happened after production ended, so they have to digitally alter all Chinese symbols and dub all Chinese dialogue.
*** Actually, it was mostly done to help the film secure a distributor, as no other major studio wanted to touch a film about China invading America.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130704131124/http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=124063 This thread on alternatehistory.com], which got to 335 pages (!) as of April 2011 before moving to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131222015247/http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=31 its current location], is a so-called "double-blind what-if" in which posters role-play veterans of the war depicted in the movie. Much discussion on weapons and campaigns of the war, as well as on the fates of surviving movie characters; for example, {{spoiler|Colonel Bella ended up defecting to the Allied side shortly after the events of the movie, became a U.S. citizen and helped U.S. authorities track down war criminals after the end of the war.}}
** [[Red Dawn Plus 20|Now has its own Tropes page]].
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: God Bless America...
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