- "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." — James Joyce
- "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" — Ulysses Everett McGill
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Cases Of Conscience: THE TRANSPORTER vs. TAKEN
The action vehicle Taken (France 2008, US 2009) casts Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, a retired special intelligence operative in search of his abducted teenage daughter. It’s about a man combating an essentially immoral or amoral world, and under cinematic … Continue reading
Posted in I wlll rant and you will like it, movies
Tagged film, morality, neeson, statham, taken, transporter
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Vaudevillain
Not only does the bad guy get all the best lines (if you’ve made your movie properly) — sometimes he has all the best moves.
CoS, xoxo, PKD
There’s a lot of fine grist in Lawrence Wright’s survey of Scientology after Paul Haggis’ very public defection, newly published in the New Yorker. But it’s worth noting that one of L. Ron Hubbard’s fellow pulp writers, Philip K. Dick, … Continue reading
