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Also noted for the first onscreen pairing of Jennifer Grey and [[Patrick Swayze]], who later costarred in the classic ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' to the [[Squee|delight]] of [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] everywhere. Also the first film to be released with the PG-13 rating.
The film is currently being remade, replacing the [[Reds
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: Robert slides down the rungs.
* [[Battle Cry]]: ''[[Clifftop Caterwauling|"Wolverines!"]]'' The Wolverines are the school football team. The protagonists leave the spray-painted symbol of their mascot at the site of ambushes.
* [[Bilingual Dialogue]]: Cuban and Russian troops speak their own language, with subtitles. Played for laughs in one scene when a Russian officer playing tourist [[Fun
* [[Bittersweet Ending]], The kids lose their innocence and {{spoiler|All but two lose their lives}}, though it's suggested by the Partisan Rock memorial that [[America Wins the War]].
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: The History teacher at the beginning of the movie is the ''very first person'' killed onscreen when he walks up to some [[It's Raining Men|heavily armed paratroopers]], [[What an Idiot!|asking them]] [[Too Dumb to Live|what's going on]].
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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Colonel Strelnikov "The Hunter", who not only thinks of ways to track (and later trap) the Wolverines, but also orders the reprisals against civilians to stop as it only creates support for them.
* [[Death From Above]]: Early in the movie, a lone American helicopter shows up a couple of times to strafe or fire rockets at Soviet positions, serving as [[The Cavalry]] in a [[Gunship Rescue]] at one point. Gets an [[Ironic Echo]] towards the end when a pair of Soviet Hind gunships slaughter half the group. Also, towards the last act of the film, we see American jets doing bombing runs in "No Man's Land".
* [[Defiant to
* [[Development Hell]]: The remake actually managed to make it all the way through the production phase, only to get sunk by MGM's financial insolvency.
** It was also delayed because the premise of China attacking America scared off all other major distributors, so MGM had to change the villain to North Korea in order to make it more attractive to film companies, and even then it took several months before it finally found a distributor willing to take a chance on the film.
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* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: {{spoiler|The revelation that one of their own has betrayed them signifies a turn for the worst for the Wolverines fortunes.}}
* [[Exact Words]]: Early in the movie, a bumper sticker appears, with the line "[[Tempting Fate|They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers]]". The camera pulls back to show a communist soldier prying a handgun...
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Writer-director John Milius wanted to focus on the [[War Is Hell
** 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.
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{{quote| '''Spetsnaz about to be executed:''' Dogface! [[Lzherusskie|I show you how soldier dies!]]}}
* [[Funny Moments]]: Most notably the elite paramilitary group...Eagle Scouts. It was a blink and miss moment, but the Arapaho National Forest information sign [[Russian Humour|when translated by Yuri turned out hilarious]].
* [[Gag Sub]]: Done with the Spanish and Russian subtitles on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B3Ewl1CzWg this youtube version]. There's a [[
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: Peace broke out with the Russians what, a year after this was made? And it's not like it was the height of the Cold War either, despite military overspending... But then again, the movie takes place in an [[Alternate History]] anyway.
* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]}}: Which contributes to several more tropes being played straight.
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{{quote| "This violates the Geneva Convention!"<br />
''"I've never heard of it!"'' }}
* [[Minion
** In the scene where civilian prisoners/hostages are executed after the Wolverines make their first kills of Soviet soldiers, Bella is clearly far more disgusted by the [[The Quisling|town mayor's]] horrified reaction than by the defiance of the executed hostages.
* [[Missing Backblast]]: Averted: In the final battle two of the American guerillas fire their RPG-7's at the command trailer used by a Soviet general. An enemy soldier who comes round the corner behind them at that precise moment falls to the ground screaming as he's been scorched by the backblast.
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{{quote| "Then you'll be a real hunter. My dad said that once you do that, there's going to be something different about you, always."}}
* [[Recycled in Space]]: [[Ripped from the Headlines|The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]]....in America!
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* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Unarmed prisoners and [[Coup De Grace|enemy wounded]] are shot by the Wolverines.
* [[Shmuck Bait]]: The Wolverines see a Soviet truck drop some supplies on the road so clumsily that it screams too easy, yet they get them without suspicion and pay the price as a Soviet attack helicopter attacks.
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