{"id":1243,"date":"2007-08-28T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T11:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2007-08-26T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T15:47:35","slug":"street-justice-for-we-but-not-for-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Street Justice For We, But Not For Ye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look at the list of names involved with any of the big gun control organizations.\u00a0\u00a0 Prominent among them will be any number of Hollywood stars, starlets, and executives.\u00a0 Hollywood joins with (and contributes big bucks to) those who think Americans should be disarmed.<\/p>\n

But when it’s time for a faded star to make a comeback?<\/p>\n

The past few weeks have brought us trailers for The Brave One<\/a><\/em> with Jodie Foster, and Death Sentence<\/a><\/em> with Kevin Bacon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The LA Times – never the law-abiding gun owner’s friend – gives a hug and a kiss to Foster’s new role<\/a> (I’ll add emphasis), whose trailer makes it look like Charles Bronson’s Death Wish <\/em>with a chick:<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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 fianc\u00e9 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<\/em>,” [Hahahahaha!\u00a0– Ed<\/em><\/font>.]\u00a0with 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah.\u00a0 An NPR host.\u00a0 “Good times”.\u00a0\u00a0 “As long as it’s one of us…<\/em>“, says Hollywood, “then being a vigilante makes good box office!”<\/p>\n

And Bacon’s movie?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But relax, complacent lefties; it looks like the angry white guy with the gun gets his comeuppance<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the case of “Death Sentence,” Bacon says, his character learns a grim lesson in the pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Unless we’re NPR hosts.\u00a0 Then it’s different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at the list of names involved with any of the big gun control organizations.\u00a0\u00a0 Prominent among them will be any number of Hollywood stars, starlets, and executives.\u00a0 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? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}