The Film "Red Dawn" Marked Its 40th Anniversary

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Cold War thriller "Red Dawn." This was a film by a Hollywood conservative that showcased patriotism, a love for the American military and warned of the dangers of gun control. Yet, it also taught the man behind the movie a deep lesson about the mentality of liberal Hollywood.

The question now, in light of President Donald Ttrump's return to the White Huse, can anybody make another movie very similar to the "Red Dawn"? Hollywood will probably shun it.

Amanda Milius, the daughter of the film’s director, spoke to Fox News Digital about the film’s legacy, and what the movie revealed to her dad. Released in 1984, "Red Dawn" told the story of the Soviet Union invading America and fighting a conventional land battle within the USA. It starred some of the most popular actors of the day and has gone on to be regarded as a cultural touchstone of the Cold War era.

Regarding the film’s unabashedly patriotic stance, Amanda Milius told Fox News Digital, "I don't think Hollywood liked that too much."

The younger Milius, a filmmaker and former Trump administration official, related what her father learned from making the movie.

"The lesson that he told myself and my brothers … was Hollywood says all they care about is if the thing makes money, like they'll, you know, support it," she said. "Not true. That movie made a great deal of money and they were like, 'You're never getting your hands on a camera again until you calm down.'"

She added, "A lot of people claim that 'Red Dawn' is the reason that he never got to really finish his career in as prolific of a way as he should have because of its politics ... It was not the kind of movie that Hollywood was interested in putting out at that moment."

"Red Dawn" premiered on 10 August 1984, and stars Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Powers Boothe. The film revolves around a mostly high school-aged bunch of teens who fight back after the Russians invade.

Asked to define why the film struck a chord and has resonated for more than a generation, the younger Milius referenced a line from the movie where Swayze’s character sums up why the young people are fighting so desperately to defend America against steep odds. "Because we live here," he simply explains.

"That [scene] means, ‘We have to do this. We have to take care of the country… This is our responsibility,'" she said. "It's like this very American idea of, I'm going to go and I just know in my bones that if somebody were to invade my land, I would go and protect it in whatever way I could with my high school friends in a truck."