Look at the list of names involved with any of the big gun control organizations. Prominent among them will be any number of Hollywood stars, starlets, and executives. Hollywood joins with (and contributes big bucks to) those who think Americans should be disarmed.
But when it’s time for a faded star to make a comeback?
The past few weeks have brought us trailers for The Brave One with Jodie Foster, and Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon.
The LA Times – never the law-abiding gun owner’s friend – gives a hug and a kiss to Foster’s new role (I’ll add emphasis), whose trailer makes it look like Charles Bronson’s Death Wish with a chick:
In the film “The Brave One,” opening in mid-September from Warner Bros., audiences will see Foster’s rendition of this kind of a woman, an NPR-type radio host who is thrashed by malicious gangbangers in the first 10 minutes of the movie, then left in a bloody heap to watch them pummel her fiancé to a pulp. Afterward, her character transforms into a cerebral vigilante, methodically mowing down an array of wife-beaters, muggers, hoodlums and psychopaths. It’s a replay of 1974’s “Death Wish,” [Hahahahaha! – Ed.] with Foster as a pint-sized Charles Bronson in a hoodie and leather jacket. Or a reworking of “Taxi Driver” where the girl who so memorably played the child prostitute in short shorts and a floppy hat has grown up and turned into Travis Bickle, her own addled savior.
Ah. An NPR host. “Good times”. “As long as it’s one of us…“, says Hollywood, “then being a vigilante makes good box office!”
And Bacon’s movie?
In his latest, “Death Sentence,” based on the sequel to Brian Garfield’s novel that spawned Charles Bronson’s 1974 revenge classic, “Death Wish,” Bacon starts out as solid citizen Nick Hume, content with his job as an insurance executive, his pretty wife (Kelly Preston), his happy kids and a nice house in the suburbs. Within 15 minutes, tragedy strikes, and by the third act, Nick has a shaved head and has become a shotgun-wielding vigilante, blowing away tattooed thugs.
But relax, complacent lefties; it looks like the angry white guy with the gun gets his comeuppance:
In the case of “Death Sentence,” Bacon says, his character learns a grim lesson in the pursuit of justice.
“There is a horrible price my character pays because he takes the law into his own hands,” he says. “He can’t wash that blood off his hands, and that comes back to haunt him.”
Beyond the sheer hypocrisy of “anti-gun” Hollywood (with its armed bodyguards and carry permits gotten through connections and long arrays of stars picked up with guns at airports), there’s the sad, sick impression they seem to have of regular American schmucks with guns; that we’re all a bunch of incipient psychos, just waiting for that transfusion of parkerized steel to set us into full “Dirty Harry” motion.
Unless we’re NPR hosts. Then it’s different.
“In the film “The Brave One,” opening in mid-September from Warner Bros., audiences will see Foster’s rendition of this kind of a woman, an NPR-type radio host who is thrashed by malicious gangbangers in the first 10 minutes of the movie, then left in a bloody heap to watch them pummel her fiancé to a pulp.”
Her finance in the movie is being played by Naveen Andrews who plays Sayid on “Lost” who in the season finale took out two Others with his hands cuffed behind his back including snapping one’s neck with his legs*.
And now he can’t stop some worthless gang-bangers from thrashing his fiancé? What a let down!
* Which was actually only the second coolest scene in the season finale.
And now he can’t stop some worthless gang-bangers from thrashing his fiancé? What a let down!
Obviously, his Swadhisthana chakra wasn’t in alignment with the others…
World News Atlas is a pop-up for me whenever I load this site.
How about for thee?
And I’m getting a lot of smaller pop-under ads each time, too.
Bummer, dude.
He’s gotta pay the bills somehow.
Blog attack dogs for ye, but not for we.
Ye attack Franken, but yet, where is the outrage about Craig?
Oh, dat’s right, we need to be propogandists.
Case in point – you have no issue with big money donors like Richard Scaife, but play the class warfare, elitist card with reckless abandon.
Yeah, it’s you against the world, and Hollywood, well, except for the Billions behind; Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, yeah, outside of that yer just a bunch of good ole’ plain folk, populists even.
Sure.
Got it, peevish: if Mitch criticizes Craig, he’s a homophobe; if he doesn’t, he’s a hypocrite, because he criticized Franken.
Gee. What a fun game.
Getting back, kinda, to the original subject matter, I liked both of the Garfield books, because, taken together, they consider the subject (vigilantism) seriously, as well as are reasonably entertainingly.
Blog attack dogs for ye, but not for we.
I’m an attack dog?
Who knew?
Ye attack Franken, but yet, where is the outrage about Craig?
Why should I be outraged? If he’s guilty, it’s kinda sad an pathetic. Hardly worthy of rage.
Oh, dat’s right, we need to be propogandists.
No. We merely need to think.
Case in point – you have no issue with big money donors like Richard Scaife, but play the class warfare, elitist card with reckless abandon.
I have no “issue” with any big money donor, in and of themselves. Merely what they support. Donors who support what I disagree with, I dig at. Just like the other side does!
What’s the problem?
Am I to be held to a standard of balance that nobody – least of all the mainstream media – can match?
Yeah, it’s you against the world, and Hollywood, well, except for the Billions behind; Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, yeah, outside of that yer just a bunch of good ole’ plain folk, populists even.
Um…huh?
Hey – tell some of that “Big Finance” money to dribble down my way when you get a minute.
Peter H re my ads:
Bummer, dude.
Not as big a bummer as having two kids in the mid-teens, for whom my college saving is WAY behind schedule.
Hence the ads.
Can’t believe I missed this:
Ye attack Franken, but yet, where is the outrage about Craig?
Craig: Pathetic guy who pled guilty of a crime. From Idaho.
Franken: Running for Senate in my state.
Not really seeing the parallel, here.
I liked both of the Garfield books, because, taken together, they consider the subject (vigilantism) seriously, as well as are reasonably entertainingly.
I have never read ’em. I should give ’em a shot.
Not as big a bummer as having two kids in the mid-teens, for whom my college saving is WAY behind schedule.
Doesn’t your company offer a kickback for referring applicants to job openings? More specifically Accounting/Finance positions? I’m not suggesting that will help entirely with the college fund(s)…..but I know someone who could use a job in Accounting/Finance. 🙂
Not really seeing the parallel, here.
Oh, there is supposed to be a parallel whenever PB jbauer donkeyman peevish comments? Who knew?
I don’t mind the pop-under ads, but the World News Atlas jumped to the front of my screen, at full screen size, and that’s annoying. It’s not happening now, to my relief.
I like the one where Garfield stalks Odie to avenge Jon’s murder.
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