Mark Steyn has reviewed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The best part is when he talks about Christopher Lee:
My favourite moment in the Lord of the Rings movies isn’t actually in any of the movies, but in one of those ‘the making of’ documentaries that appears on the DVD. It’s the scene where Saruman gets stabbed by Grima Wormtongue, and Lee explains to director Peter Jackson that the backstabbing sound isn’t quite right, because in his days with British Intelligence during the war he used to sneak up and stab a lot of Germans in the back and it was more of a small gasp they made. Jackson backs away cautiously.
In an era of Hollywood Gangsta’s and extreme sport pussies, it refreshing that there is still a few real bad asses around.
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Quite agreed!
One (additional) good thing about the Iraq War is that it’s creating a whole ‘nother generation of Good Guy Bad Asses.
“Dad, I couldn’t do my homework because my Nanobot Math Implant wasn’t working”.
“Son, when I was about six years older than you, I was fighting Muslim extremists in the desert. I had to calculate mortar trajectories with a calculator, and three fingers blown off.”
Optional final line: “Dad, what’s a Muslim?”.
The question is will there be any good guy badasses in Hollywood? Or will they be kept out by the leftist Hollywood establishment led by The Barbara.