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Say Hello To Your New Mad Max?
Which Of These Men Will Be Our Lantern?
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08/02/09
All that said, Renner in Hurt Locker was badass... he could do a role in Mad Max easy. But as others have said, I think the real Mel should come back, Hollywood misses him (whether they know it or now).
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The guy is also one my shortlist of people who could and should play Captain America.
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But them, Jensen Ackles gives the same impression, and yet he can be pretty badass in supernatural, so I guess that depends on whether or not he's a good actor, which I don't know because I haven't watched anything with him on it.
08/02/09
An just an aside, 'The Hurt Locker' is a damn good all around film. Well acted, well directed, well shot. Check it out, best war movie in years.
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Okay, here's where I kinda go off the deep end.
One of my favorite movies is THE RED SHOES, the 1948 ballet film that (IMO) is about being so obsessed with your job that you sacrifice your life for it.
And I think that's where THE HURT LOCKER is coming from too: Renner's character is not only a adrenaline junky, but he's obsessed with the fact that he's so good at his job, that ordinary life -- including life with his (ex) wife and his young son -- doesn't hold any interest. He is, in a sick kind of way, Corporate America's wet dream: a worker willing to sacrifice everything, his home life, his relationships, his life, in order to have a chance to prove once more that he's the best. It rings of a core value in American Culture.
Yeah, that's right: I'm comparing THE HURT LOCKER with the THE RED SHOES, where the prima ballerina sacrifices her marriage and her friendships to dance the ballet "The Red Shoes", from the Hans Christian Anderson story about the shoes that wouldn't let the ballerina stop dancing. Just like Renner can't stop risking his life to defuse bombs.
Don't make me go one about how another favorite film, DARK CITY, is bout how Christianity supplanted polytheism in the ancient world.
08/02/09
War trivialized everything back home, so the only emotional connection he now gets is the constant threat of dying on the battlefield.
08/02/09
I guess Murdoch does take on a chosen one kind of air, and fights the collective intelligence of the strangers. I always thought about it gnostic terms... Murdoch's soul evolved to the point where he could challenge the demi-urge of the strangers and their machine, but I suppose it is less of a demi-urge and more of a poly-urge.
It always reminded me a little of the theme of the Crystal Man in A Voyage To Arcturus; although Dark City is considerably less weird.
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How come Green Lantern wears the ring on the outside of the glove? That's always bothered the heck out of me
07/10/09
For the record, my favorite is the Hal Jordan from New Frontier - that requires an entirely different actor.