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School Shooting | Guerrilla Warfare
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Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Musical Comedy Adventure or Drama | 1985 | Brad
Budget 17,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 38,400,000 USD
Five of the thirty-six paratroopers in the beginning of the movie got blown as much as a mile off course during filming. One of them got stuck in a tree. He had to convince locals that he wasn't really an enemy soldier.
Patrick Swayze got frostbite during filming. A few years later, he said it still felt like someone shoving toothpicks up his fingernails when he got too cold.
C. Thomas Howell had been a rodeo cowboy. He helped teach the rest of the cast to ride horses.
The plot, a Soviet and Cuban invasion from Mexico, was based on C.I.A. and War College studies of U.S. weaknesses at the time.
Real Green Berets helped with the actors' boot camp training.
"Col. Andy Tanner: All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid. Robert: It keeps me warm."
"Col. Andy Tanner: [Describing the invasion] West Coast. East Coast. Down here is Mexico. First wave of the Soviet attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights the same way they did in Afghanistan in January 1980. Only they were crack Airborne outfits. Now, they took these mountain passes in the Rockies. Jed Eckert: So, that's what hit Calumet? Col. Andy Tanner: I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes and the missiles were a hell of a lot more accurate than we thought. They took out the silos here in the Dakotas, key points of communication. Darryl Bates: Like what? Col. Andy Tanner: Oh, like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City. Darryl Bates: Gone? Col. Andy Tanner: Yeah. That's right. Infiltrators came up illegal from Mexico. Cubans mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas and wreaked a helluva lot of havoc, I'm here to tell you. They opened up the door down here, and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan and Latin American armies come walking right through, rolled right up here through the Great Plains. Robert: How far did they get? Col. Andy Tanner: Cheyenne, Wyoming... . across to Kansas. We held them at the Rockies and the Mississippi. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came across Canada to link up here in the middle, but we stopped their butt cold. The lines have pretty much stabilized now. Robert: What about Europe? Col. Andy Tanner: I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long."
