Red state

Andy 2022-05-24 22:06:59

1. A cheap low-cost movie by Kevin Smith is Kevin Smith's lowest cost movie since Chasing Army. The cost of the entire movie is about US$4 million, of which the budget of the special effects department is US$5,000.

2. The role of Abin Cooper was written by Kevin Smith specifically for Michael Parks. If Michael Parks does not accept this role, Kevin Smith even considers closing the shooting plan.

3. The meaning of Red State. Red means radical and leftist. In the United States, it usually refers to states that support conservative parties. Perhaps it is radical, conservative and even violent here.

4. The theme of the movie: the right granted. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Bill of Rights, clarifies the scope of American power, including freedom of speech and religion. The Second Amendment to the Constitution ensures the freedom of Americans to hold guns. But when the fanatical belief transcends the law, he believes that the rights granted do not originate from the law but from God, while religious believers use weapons to infringe on the rights of others. At the same time, there is another thread in the movie. When the police tried to kill all the members of the Five Points sect without investigation, the rights they were granted were contrary to the law.

5. The movie has some black humorous meanings, including the young man who has escaped the thieves’ den with a gun and was shot down by the police surrounded by outside, including the end of the shootout, and the sound of the horn that made the five-point sect think it was a god’s fairy sound. The college students who grow marijuana deliberately broadcast it and so on, which makes people laugh.

6. Excerpts from the movie remarks. Joseph Keenan: People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

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Red State quotes

  • Joseph Keenan: [at the inquest, staring into space]

    Agent Carol: And then what happened? Special Agent Keenan? Special Agent Keenan?

    Joseph Keenan: [breaks out of it]

    Agent Carol: What happened?

    Joseph Keenan: I subdued the suspect... with a head butt.

    Agent Carol: [amused] A head butt?

    Joseph Keenan: Yes sir. The suspect was standing... unnaturally close. And then the trumpet blast sounded three more times, and a fourth and a fifth. By then it was pretty clear that the Rapture wasn't going to happen, so we rounded up the remaining Five Pointers.

    Agent Carol: Hey, what was it? The trumpet blasts?

    Joseph Keenan: Pardon?

    Agent Carol: The trumpet blast, what was it really?

    Joseph Keenan: Oh, that. Well some new neighbors, these eco kids from the university with a compost collective - they've got an acre off of the ass end of the Five Point property, other side of the hill. Abin's been giving them a bunch of guff because of the smell of the compost.

    Agent Hammond: Was it bad?

    Joseph Keenan: [laughs] Gets so you could taste it. But Abin's been harassing these kids, sending some of his bigger boys over to bitch at first, maybe break a window or two. Then I guess they went old school - lots of sugar in gas tanks, burning bags of dog shit.

    Agent Carol: The college kids?

    Joseph Keenan: No, that was Cooper and his church. The eco kids never so much as called the cops. They got creative instead. They thought it'd be funny to take a page out of Revelations and get Cooper and his family's hopes up with the trumpets. So they got this big-ass rusty old siren from a fire house that just got a new one. The fire chief said they could take the damn thing so long as they carted it off, it's as big as a Mini Cooper. So they trucked this thing down to their compost collective, they put it in a barn, they hook it up to an iPod of all things. And they played these single note trumpet blasts they pulled off the Internet.

    Agent Hammond: And they had no idea that you were even there?

    Joseph Keenan: [shrugs] Just dumb luck...

  • Joseph Keenan: You said this was going to be a simple in-and-out, sir.

    [holds phone up to sound of machine gun fire, then speaks again]

    Joseph Keenan: Simple just shit itself.

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