Red Dawn corrections

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Red Dawn (1984) - 9 corrections

starring Charlie Sheen, Harry Dean Stanton, Lea Thompson, Patrick Swayze

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It is remarked that dissidents have been taken away to an internment camp and no one in town is even allowed to talk about them. However the boys (including Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen) stroll up to the edge of the fence and talk to the inmates for several minutes without being approached by any guards, even when the spot-light is briefly turned on them during their conversation. [This just shows that the rule is not rigorously enforced. The prisoners in the camp are not considered to be much of a threat (or they would have been taken away to a more secure location, or shot), so the guards don't bother to go out of their way to stop simple conversation at the fence.] Corrected by Twotall

In the scene immediately after the Cuban leader allows Swayze to leave, as he carries the dying Sheen, Swayze is walking in a park towards a park bench. Watch closely on the left and you can see the shadow of the camera crew tracking the scene the whole way. Very visible. [In this scene it is the shadow of the swing set, which resembles a crane, but it is not.]

The Mayor's kid, while part of the rebel guerrilla 'Wolverines' consisting of a total of 8 closely-knit people, somehow managed to sneak into town, talk to his dad, get caught by the Russians and imprisoned, interrogated, implanted with a bug, and sent back to his group, and none of them noticed he was gone during that time. [Could he not have been off hunting, which could take all day, or on extended patrol, or some other mission that might take 3-4 days?]

Not one of the actual parachutist's names are mentioned in the credits. [Not trivia. Extras are rarely credited.] Corrected by William Bergquist

After Toni is shot when Jed gives her the grenade he puts in her right hand, later when the Russian finds her the grenade isn't in her right hand. When he picks her up it falls from her left side & rolls underneath her. [She could have easily grabbed the grenade with her left hand while holding it with her right hand a few minutes later, in order to let her right hand rest. She might not have wanted to die that very second.]

In the scene where the downed F-15 pilot is discovered, he's carrying a revolver. Fighter pilots are all issued Beretta 9mm pistols in their survival gear. [Actually, at the time the movie was made (1983/84) the Beretta was not in service for the most part. The Air Force issued .38 revolvers to pilots, the Army issued the M1911A1 (.45). The Beretta M9 was purchased to try to have one pistol for all the services. It was not placed into service until 1985/86.]

In the scene where Darryl and the Russian soldier get executed, Darryl gets shot 3 times at point blank range with an AK-47. At that range the bullets should have passed through his body and exited out of his back. [You can see at least one bullethole in Darryl's back as he's executed.]

When Charlie Sheen sneaks up to the hill outside his hometown to have a look at its condition, the "Russian" tank column moving in the distance is really American, as one of the tanks has a white star. [They could simply be American tanks that the Russians captured.]

In the scene where the freedom fighters are attacked by the Soviet helicopter gunships, one of them fires a rocket from an RPG-7 at one of them. It does little damage - it should have been blown out of the sky. The RPG-7 is an anti-tank weapon, so even a heavily armored helicopter shouldn't be able to withstand a hit from one. [If you look closely the RPG actually hits the Soviet guy in the open area of the helicopter. The copter actually has a open door (much like the US Huey) in the middle. The Russian is manning a gun in this middle part. The explosion kills this man (possible another) and disperses the explosion out the open sides instead of throughout the helicopter's hull.]