This year, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Red Dawn,” the iconic Cold War thriller that showcased a Hollywood conservative’s patriotism, love for the American military and warned of the dangers of arms control. But it also taught the man behind the film a profound lesson about the mindset of liberal Hollywood.

Amanda Milius, the film’s director’s daughter, spoke to Fox News Digital about the film’s 40th anniversary, its legacy and what the film showed her father. Released in 1984, “Red Dawn” told the story of the Soviet Union invading America and fighting a conventional land war within the United States. Starring some of the most popular actors of the era, the film came to be seen as a cultural touchstone of the Cold War era.

“I don’t think Hollywood really likes it,” Amanda Milius told Fox News Digital regarding the film’s unabashedly patriotic stance.

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The cast of the original ‘Red Dawn’ fighting against the occupying Soviets. (MGM/UA)

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Young Milius, a filmmaker and Former Trump administration officialHe talked about what his father learned while making the film.

“The lesson he told myself and my siblings was that Hollywood says all they care about is whether it makes money or not, so like they’re going to support it,” he said. “It’s not true. This movie made a lot of money and they said: ‘You can never hold a camera again until you calm down.'”

He added: “A lot of people claim that ‘Red Dawn’ was the reason he didn’t end his career as productively as he should have because of his politics… It wasn’t the kind of movie Hollywood was making that I was interested in getting out at that moment.”

John Milius, who also co-wrote “Apocalypse Now” and directed “Conan the Barbarian,” suffered a stroke in 2010. When asked about her health status, Amanda told Fox News Digital that she “can’t talk as well as she used to.” ” But overall, “He’s doing well… He’s doing his job. Stable and happy.”

“Red Dawn”, which premiered on August 10, 1984, stars Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Gray, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Powers Boothe. The film revolves around a group of mostly high school-age teenagers who fight after the Russian invasion.

Recalling the 40th anniversary of her father John Milius’s Cold War film “Red Dawn,” Amanda Milius said Hollywood was angered by the film’s patriotic tone. (Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for EPIX)

Asked to describe why the film struck a chord and resonated for more than a generation, the younger Milius cited a line from the film in which Swayze’s character sums up why young people fight so desperately to defend America against formidable odds. “Because we live here,” he explains simply.

“This (scene) means: ‘We have to do this. We have to take care of the country… This is our responsibility,'” he said. “It’s just like that American idea: I’m going to go, and I know in my bones that if someone invades my land, I’m going to ride in a truck with my high school friends and protect them any way I can.”

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John Milius is an old National Rifle Association board member (NRA) and “Red Dawn” included a scene in which the Soviets used weapons registration lists to confiscate weapons. Young Milius said of his father and that scene: “I think ‘Red Dawn’ is the movie where he did most of what he wanted without interference, because there are so many things he got away with in that movie that you could never do today, I mean never.”

He described the moment of the gun confiscation as his father’s warning to “beware of government excesses” and added: “I think most people love that scene. I love it. I thought it was pretty spot on.”

The film struck an instant chord with many conservatives. Former Secretary of State Ronald Reagan Al Haig complimented the film, telling the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner on August 15, 1984: “It captures the stress of patriotism, the feelings of love and, above all, the futility of war.”

“Red Dawn” starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray, among others. The two would later reunite for 1987’s “Dirty Dancing”. (Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

However, liberal Hollywood did not react very positively to this situation. famous critic Roger Ebert was outraged in his review at the time: “I think this movie is corrupt from beginning to end. And one of the problems I had was that it made a very definitive political statement… There was a whole right-wing ideology that the picture itself didn’t reflect like it deserved.”

Regarding this approach, Amanda Milius wondered: “Can we imagine that such a left-wing Hollywood movie would have problems? I mean, I can’t even think of a movie that’s too left-wing for Hollywood.” As for the left’s disdain for the film, she added: “‘Hollywood’ That’s exactly what he thought about everything, very patriotic.”

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2012 remake of “Crimson Dawn” changed the villains From the Chinese to the North Koreans after the shooting of the movie. When asked about his father’s response, he described himself as “under direct orders” not to see it, adding: “None of us paid a dime to even look at a frame of this.”

He added that they did not even accept the remake in his house.

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