Showing posts with label Total Recall. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 04, 2012

Red Dawn 2012


Thor comes to Red Dawn. And the Wolverines return. Filmed in one Superman's birthplace. Released the day before the anniversary of the assassination of JFK.

On Friday, I saw Total Recall (which made me think of Blade Runner throughout all its rainy, congested Asian-filled Colony scenes). But before that new feature film about mind control, there was the first showing of the trailer for Red Dawn. A movie trailer about an invading Asian army was being shown before another film about an invading army. Marketing.

Principal photography began for the new Red Dawn in September 2009, in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Historically, Mount Clemens' largest industry use to be the mineral baths that were scattered throughout the city from 1873 until 1974. The city once encompassed 11 bathhouses and several hotels at its peak. The first bathhouse was built in 1873 and was known as “The Original” and was located on the corner of Jones and Water Street. The bathhouse remained until 1883 when the building burned, yet was rebuilt in 1884 and accommodated larger crowds. Over the years, noted visitors such as film actors Clark Gable and Mae West, athletes Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey, news magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the Vanderbilt family vacationed in the city for the bath industry.

Wallpaper Art by Ben Burgraff

One of most well-known recent residents born in Mount Clemens is Dean Cain (born Dean George Tanaka; July 31, 1966), the actor who is most famous for starring as Clark Kent/Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Cain ended up moving to Santa Monica, California, and playing on the baseball team there with Charlie Sheen, who in 1984 would be a character in the first Red Dawn. Cain is also remembered as the host of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! from 1999-2003.
The other trailer after the one for Red Dawn? Man of Steel, the new Superman movie, due Summer 2013.

Needless to say, after all I've written here lately about Colorado Aurora (red dawn), the timing seemed strange that after delaying the Red Dawn film from 2009-2010, now is the year this repeat of the 1984 political thriller is going to be released. After the 2012 election.


 


Iconic imagery is repeated.
 


 The group shot from 1984 and 2012.

 The 2010 poster.
Chinese invaders were part of the story for the 2009 filmmaking. But Red Dawn was not released in 2010. Now Northern Korean invaders have been edited in for the November 21, 2012 release.

The lead hero Jed Eckert (meaning, "strong," "brave," with the Scottish Eckert clan, also spelled Urquhart, being from Loch Ness, Scotland) is played by Chris Hemsworth. He has recently played Thor in three Thor/Avengers movies and the Huntsman in Snow White and the Huntsman.
Before Thor, the youthful Australian actor was a virtual unknown here in the United States. But he played “Kim Hyde” on 171 episodes of Home and Away, the successful Australian TV series where Heath Ledger (the Joker in The Dark Knight) started. Hemsworth is doing a sequel, Thor: The Dark World, which is set for release November 8, 2013. Natalie Portman plays "Jane Foster," an astrophysicist and Thor's love interest.

It apparently continues to be a time for comic book superheroes and cinematic wars. The red dawn this way comes.

"You remind me of someone... 
a man I met in a half-remembered dream. 
He was possessed of some radical notions." 
~ Christopher Nolan, Inception


The 1984 trailer.
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For the links to other recent postings about 
Colorado's Aurora's red dawn symbolism, please see also:







(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)

Sources as attributed above in embedded links, as well as mixes and various tidbits from Wikipedia.

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Thursday, August 02, 2012

Predicting Aurora


by Loren Coleman ©2012



Two weeks ago today, on July 19th, I wrote we all should expect something dramatic and perhaps deadly linked to the release of The Dark Knight Rises. I said, more specifically:
Now that the date of the release of The Dark Knight Rises and this visual Bane is upon us, let's look at the fact the film is opening on July 20, 2012. 7.20.2012. 20.7.2012.
What are the significant memorable themes associated with past July 20ths? There are two major motifs that leap forth from history: space and assassinations. [Then I looked at the history of events associated with the date.] 
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Will any events take place on July 20, 2012, of any import?
Dates of movie releases have had strange links.
The day of neo-Nazi Breivik's massacre in Norway (July 22, 2011) was the day of the release of the film Captain America (July 22, 2011), with the first scene taking place in Norway, to the sound of Nazis' rapid fire machine gunning. A bizarre coincidence, to say the least.
I reviewed the dates of the other Dark Knight trilogy movies. Something was telling me that The Dark Knight Rises would be the focus of a violent event.

I'd been writing for a week of TDKR/Bane, and had penned items back in 2008-2009, on the violent wave of Joker copycats. The IMAX re-release of The Dark Knight on January 23, 2009, for example, took place on the exact date of the Joker copycat mass killings at the Belgium daycare (see Dendermonde Joker). My feeling was that an earthshaking event was going to occur on July 20, 2012.

When July 20th arrived, our wait for news was not long. It was soon after midnight, Mountain time, when we all learned that it was at a first release showing of The Dark Knight Rises that tragedy had struck. In Colorado's Aurora, literally, "red dawn," the new morning greeted all of us with the news of the mass shooting.


I have made predictions before. In 2005, on March 18th, I wrote "...a possible series of school shootings from March 20th through April 20th could occur...I hope not, but every indication is that the media is entering its first post-9/11 'shooting rampage' feeding frenzy, and as March nears its end, and into April, 'school shootings' could be next."

Again, we didn't have to wait long. On March 21, 2005, the so-called Red Lake massacre took place:
The Red Lake massacre was an incident of spree killing that occurred in two places on the Red Lake reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. The first murders began on the morning of March 21, 2005, when 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend. He later drove his grandfather's police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he shot and killed seven people on the school campus, comprising five students, one teacher and an unarmed security guard, and wounded five others. The shooting ended when Weise committed suicide....[It is] the second deadliest massacre at a US high school, only behind the Columbine High School massacre.
Yes, Red Lake.

Then after seeing the Dawson College shooting of September 13, 2006, as a precursor for renewed mass shooting activity, I predicted the Bailey, Colorado shooting, which was then the immediate blueprint for the Amish school shooting that happened a week later. In 2006, the media began to mention my predictions. Stories in widely diverse outlets, such as Boing Boing and the CTV news, acknowledged my writings.

But there is no magic here. I observe and predict. As CTV put it: "While Coleman's email may now seem eerily prophetic, he told CTV.ca his prediction two weeks ago was simply the result of observing patterns among widely-publicized events."

In the Fall of 2006, I predicted a major school-related shooting would occur, with a "higher body count" during the week of the anniversary of the Columbine shooting in late April 2007. I reinforced this future insight, when in March 2007, I wrote that "deadly outbursts in school settings that are similar but radically more violent than in recent memory" would occur during that "red danger zone" on the calendar. Unfortunately, that prediction came true when the VA Tech massacre occurred at Blackburg, Virginia, on April 16, 2007, leaving 33 dead and 17 injured.

Please do not misread me. I am not delighted that my predictions come true. There is no glee in my tone but sorrow that the helpful and obvious predictive nature of this phenomenon is not used by others. Sometimes people only pay attention if there are results. If something can be validated and used by others, that's what this is all about to me. Ignoring the assistance that people can get from "reading" the indicators is unfortunate. Seeing school shootings, workplace killings or theater massacres occurring is tragic and sad. I'm the first one to feel that way, especially since I've had to deal with the aftermaths of such situation too often in my life and profession.

There are keys here. I have written about them so people will start paying attention.


Sometimes the cosmos then tries to reinforce the synchromystic signals by throwing images in our faces. After July 20th, the images of Aurora starting popping up everywhere, for everyone, including right in front of me on the highway!

In Portland, Maine.

At the beginning of the Skyfall (James Bond film) trailer shown before The Dark Knight Rises that I saw on July 20, 2012, at an IMAX.

In a Tin-Tin panel.

And tomorrow? August 3, 2012. The two-week mark of the Aurora shooting. What should we expect? I don't know. But what I have seen is a former pattern of a peak in copycats at the two-week anniversary.


I also notice that August 3rd is the release date of Total Recall, a dark, futuristic spy thriller. The lead character has the name Hauser. Hauser comes from the Middle High German hus "house," German Haus + the suffix – er, denoting someone who gives shelter or protection. Aurora has its Holmes. What does it mean that Total Recall has a Hauser, a home protecter? Perhaps nothing. But, then again, perhaps something positive?

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For the links to recent other postings about The Dark Knight Rises, Colorado's Aurora red dawn event, and copycats, please see also:
Bane/Bain Bursts Bare (Part 3) ~ The Aurora Shootings Predicted

Recent interviews, about the Aurora shootings:
Red Ice Creations













The Copycat Effect
(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)
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