JC Walks

Jesus Walks, Kanye West.
(Jesus Walks)
God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down
(Jesus Walks with me)
The only thing that I pray is that me feet don’t fail me now
(Jesus Walks)
And I don’t think there is nothing I can do now to right my wrongs
(Jesus Walks with me)
I want to talk to God but I’m afraid because we ain’t spoke in so long

Is it newsworthy? What did I win?

Lowell Bergman: You pay me to go get guys like Wigand, to draw him out. To get him to trust us, to get him to go on television. I do. I deliver him. He sits. He talks. He violates his own fucking confidentiality agreement. And he’s only the key witness in the biggest public health reform issue, maybe the biggest, most-expensive corporate-malfeasance case in U.S. history. And Jeffrey Wigand, who’s out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we gonna air it? Of course not. Why? Because he’s not telling the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That’s why we’re not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the worse it gets!

Sharon Tiller: You won.
Lowell Bergman: Yeah? What did I win?

The Insider, 1999.

Smooth + Yogurt

La barrita Cadbury de chocolate suave y símil yogurt de frutillas o cerezas es el elixir.

Contiene: sabor muy ligeramente amargo + suavidad + crocancia + sabor dulce ciertamente picante + atrayente aroma + instantes de placer posterior + envoltorio fácil.

Todos deberían tener al menos una.

Bring it!

Bring It On Home To Me es una canción de Sam Cooke del año ‘61 y una de mis preferidas.

Este cover lo hace Xander, de Xander and the Smoke Pockets, y sin una mano.

U-Turn OK

Blind Man: Your lies are old but you tell them pretty good.

U-Turn marca uno de los personajes irreconocibles de Jon Voight. Otro es Alí.

Al final de la primera escena en que aparece Joaquin Phoenix se escucha Ring of Fire de Johnny Cash. (Véase Walk the Line).

Clue-less

Sorprende ver lo poco que se contempla la carrera de detective privado en la oferta educativa actual. ¿Acaso les faltaría alumnado?

Lucky

“I’d rather be lucky than good”

Keywords: tenis, suerte, tragedia, azar, muerte, sófocles, poker, prisión.

Leatherface

 

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Contrary to popular belief, the film does not depict factual events, but instead was (like the films Psycho, Deranged, and The Silence of the Lambs) loosely inspired by Ed Gein, who, while he did wear human skin, acted alone and did not use a chainsaw. Those who believe the film was based on actual events will try to back up their statements by referring to similar events in Texas, none of which had anything to do with the film. Although the film’s opening would have one believe that the events are factual, it is merely a scare tactic, called the false document technique, to frighten the audience.

El Sur de los Estados Unidos:

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/ 

http://www.southernmyths.com/  

Dominoeing…

 

 

My name is Domino Harvey. I am a bounty hunter. You’re probably wondering how a girl like me arrived here. What I say will determine whether or not I spend the rest of my life in prison. Let’s start at the beginning.

 

Domino Harvey (August 7, 1969 in London – June 27, 2005) was a English-born fashion model turned Los Angeles bounty hunter, notable within that field for being female, rebellious, and from a privileged background.

 

The daughter of Lithuanian-born Jewish actor Laurence Harvey and his third wife and widow, British fashion model Paulene Stone, she was reportedly named after Bond girl Domino Derval from the movie Thunderball ).

 

In and out of drug rehabilitation for years, on May 4, 2005, she was arrested for allegedly dealing methamphetamines. She was awaiting trial and under house arrest at the time of her death.

 

(Wikipedia: Domino Harvey)

16 Blocks (2006)

Richard Donner / Bruce Willis – Mos Def

Frank Nugent: You Still There, Jack?
Jack Mosley: Yeah, I’m Still Here.

16 Blocks es el ejemplo más reciente y veloz del viaje intrépido del hombre-héroe. El tipo que cambia, o algo, porque en realidad 16 Blocks nos dice que nadie cambia. O sí, ya me olvidé.

Pero tiene al sujeto, al ayudante, al enemigo, al sabio, al enigma, al objeto, al destinador, al destinatario, etc. Y el tipo efectivamente es héroe. Y el viaje dura 16 cuadras, ¡qué más efectivo!

Es la historia, en verdad, de la persistencia, no de la memoria, sino de la voluntad o la necedad en la decadencia.

Es claro que Bruce Willis sobreactúa todos sus papeles, incluso los excelentes. Y aquí todas las piezas encajan.

Y si bien la trama y los atributos más generales pueden consumirse como papas fritas blandas, los diálogos y las humanidades son únicos, de nuevo reales (el malo se preocupa por sus secuaces y el héroe está sucio), las resoluciones son inéditas (el bueno sale de la pintura y no se casa), los estereotipos son extremos pero ágiles (no hay mujeres, casi, y Mosley no para de tomar ni un momento, está destruido).

Fíjense que (y cómo) se burla de algunos recursos remanidos de nuestro cine: el cassette del moribundo interrumpido y el “make a hole” policiaco, entre otros.

Entonces no llega a ser cursi, ni pura acción, ni suspenso, ni política, ni racismo; es significativa. Y es ingeniosa, sutil, elegante.
Y encima insiste: “Fuck the Truth!” Lo cual es más que digno.

Al final (o al principio), es mejor subestimarla.

Misionero

The Mission (1986):

Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world… thus have I made it.

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Gabriel: If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don’t have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo.

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Cabeza: I cannot challenge him. His cloth protects him.
Mendoza: My cloth protects you.

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[Last Lines]
Altamirano: So, your Holiness, now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. But in truth it is I who am dead, and they who live. For as always, your Holiness, the spirit of the dead will survive in the memory of the living.

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Altamirano: Tell them they must leave the missions. They must submit to the will of God.
Gabriel: They say it was the will of God that they came out of the jungle and built the mission. They don’t understand why God has changed his mind.

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Mendoza: For me there is no redemption, no penance great enough.
Gabriel: There is. But do you dare to try it?
Mendoza: Do you dare to see it fail?

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[Mendoza is repeatedly dragging a load of armor up a cliff as penance for killing his brother]
Fielding: How long must he carry that stupid thing?
Gabriel: God knows.

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Altamirano: With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the entire continent.

John 1:5: The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.

Mirá!

Mirá! es el blog de Julián Gallo, profesor de la materia Nuevos Medios en la Maestría en Periodismo de Clarín, consultor y creativo.

 

Con la leyenda “Para que una cosa sea interesante, basta con mirarla durante mucho tiempo”, Gallo se hace presente con miles de cosas para mirar, reflexionar e inspirarse durante mucho tiempo.

Los posts de Gallo son innovadores, no aparecen en ningún otro lado antes ni son recogidos de fuentes frecuentes.

Además, cuenta con links a del.icio.us, tags, categorías, archivo y un original dispositivo que, mediante un tag elegido por el autor, exhibe los resultados de Flickr.

Hace poco Mirá! renovó diseño. Se puede buscar dentro del blog y suscribirse a las novedades.

Discernimiento

¿Qué es un blogger famoso?

Nada. No existe.

Disposable teens

 

Turn Around, Look At Me
The Vogues
There is someone walking behind you,
turn around, look at me.
There is someone watching your footsteps,
turn around, look at me
There is someone who really needs you,
here’s my heart in my hand.
Turn around, (turn around,) look at me,
(look at me,) understand,understand,
That there’s someone who’ll stand beside you.
Turn around, look at me.
And there’s someone who’ll love and guide you.
Turn around, look at me.
I’ve waited, but I’ll wait forever for you to come to me.
Look at someone (look at someone) who really loves you,
yeah, really loves you. Turn around, look at me.

 

 

- As in the first two movies in the series, the names of several characters are references to horror film makers. The character “Lewis Romero” is an homage to the horror directors Herschell Gordon Lewis and George A. Romero. The character, “Jason Robert Wise,” is a reference to Robert Wise, director of ‘The Haunting (1963)’

 

(Final Destination 3 – 2006)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Gore Verbinski / J. Depp – O. Bloom

Maccus: Turns out not even Jack Sparrow can best the devil!

Davey Jones: I *am* the sea.

La secuela vuelve a vendernos a Jack Sparrow como un esencial “buen mal pirata”. El prescindible resto está más resignado a su rol y entonces lo hace con más que digna gracia.

El leit-motiv musical nos despierta en ocasiones durante las largas 2 horas y media. Bien.

La trama, el universo y los detalles que se construyen son magníficos y de videojuego, reminiscencias del grandioso Monkey Island y de la atracción del parque de Disney. No necesitan a las personas, existen por sí mismas, inverosímiles y encantadoras.

Como segunda no decepciona, al contrario. Supera bien las expectativas, como ocurrió con la primera, pero por eso también repite.
La tercera debe (de) ser la mejor por las recurrencias, por los ingresos y regresos. Por la explosión inclusiva y universal. (Más que un deseable para otras sagas).

The dice game that Will Turner plays with Davy Jones is called Liar’s Dice, a gambling game where each player has to make consecutively higher bids based upon how many of each die they claim are on the table (two threes, four fives, etc.), until a player is called a liar, in which case all the dice are shown and it’s seen if the bid is correct.