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Whacking Permalink Archive 27 November 2004 --
Makes the world go round. (From "Heist") I'm with Roger Ebert: there needs to be more gold and treasure maps in movies. There's just something magical in the lure of gold that few things can replicate. We can appreciate the desire for cash, but it's dull, ugly and utilitarian. Ahh, but gold is something else. Gold is rare. Gold is beautiful. Gold makes you rich. People might go rob a bank to get money, but they'll go on adventures to get gold. And adventures make great movies. Gold gives characters a reason to go someplace they'd have no reason to go to and do things no normal person would do. Gold makes people crazy. And everybody wants gold. Gold looks fantastic on a movie screen. It can draw your gaze like nothing else. When a character spots a cute chick, if won't have any effect on you if you don't find her cute. But you always feel a character's fascination with the gold. It's a gift for screenwriters. A single mention of "gold" can save a dozen pages of exposition. Gold will make people overlook all but the most ridiculous character arcs and all but the most illogical of plotlines. Best of all, gold can make an already great film even better. Here's a list of decent or great movies to do with the lust for gold. Do yourself a favour and check 'em out Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (20 minutes too long, but stupidly entertaining) Heist (I didn't like it much, though if you don't mind David Mamet's mostly irritating dialogue, it's certainly worth a look plot-wise) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Any
noteable "gold movies" I've missed?
You've probably seen this already, but in case you haven't... Val Prieto brings us a raving idiot named Walter Lippmann, who wants us to send 'get well' messages to Fidel Castro after his recent trip-and-fall injury. Val has kindly supplied some sample letters to send to Walter & uncle Fidel. I used this one...
Don't
forget to send yours.
Help needed from WW2 drama aficionados Sometime in the early 80's, the ABC showed a British mini-series set in WW2. It seemed pretty interesting, though at 8-9 years of age I didn't really understand a lot of it. I've been trying to find out what it was called so I can track down a video or DVD of it. Problem is, I don't know what to look for. I can't remember the names of any of the actors, and as I said, I don't remember what the show was called. I've tried every kind of google search I can think of which would give me a clue, but nothing. I'm going to describe what I remember about it. If anybody knows the show I'm talking about, please write to me at tex <at> whackingday.com and give me any info you can. 1: The series was about a team of British commandos who go on a mission to destroy a secret German rocket-manufacturing facility. Most of the series dealt with the lead-up and training of the team. I doubt it went for more than six episodes, but I really can't remember. 2: It was done on a fairly moderate budget. Most of the series dealt with the training & planning of the mission. Most scenes happened indoors on ready-made studio sets. 3: The team recruit an ex-circus tightrope walker to perform a critical part of the mission: to do a walk over the security fence on a rope or cable the team would harpoon into place. The fellow was, I think, French. 4: The leader of the Brits I think had short, curly dark hair and a very odd way of speaking. He would speak in a staccato stop-start manner. 5: On the night of the mission, when they are on the plane to parachute to the site, they are told this is not actually a training run, but the real thing. 6: I think one of the members of the team got nabbed by the Germans mid-way through the series during some sort of recon operation. 7: The main German characters spoke in English in their scenes. For some reason, I remember a tall, square-jawed german officer at the rocket facility saying the line "the SS will start breathing down our necks if we get behind with these damned things". Anyone
think they know what this is? It's been bugging me for ages.
It's more coherent than his website. And by that I mean it has less words. It seems to be made up of one post thus far: the coalition are Nazis. He chides us all for being ignorant, TV-watching savages and not paying enough attention to the things he says we should be paying attention to. No
mention of the lovely resistance who are hell-bent on slaughter to prevent
the transition to democracy. Par for to course with a modernity-hating
hippy like Neville.
Robert Fisk's website vanished a week or so ago and hasn't been seen since.. Could
the vast neocon/Jew/Halliburton conspiracy be responsible for this?
"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun" I'll just throw in an opinion here: summer sucks. Why do so many people enjoy being hot, sweaty and stinky? As far as I can see, the only good things about summer are that your clothes dry quicker on the line and the sun doesn't go down until after eight o'clock. Fuck
the rest of it. I hate summer.
Shock discovery: a stupid celebrity Earlier this evening, SBS showed the 'Concert for Beslan'. One of the introductions was done by Molly Meldrum, who tastefully decided to wear a T-shirt bearing the image of the mass-murdering terrorist Che Guevara. Other than his brilliant sense of occasion, Molly - being homosexual - would have been first up against the wall in any Che-designed utopia. Asshole.
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