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Showing posts with label Michael Shannon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Shannon. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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“I'm as American as it gets.” - Superman in Man of Steel
He sure is. Superman is the quintessential 20th Century American fable. He's the ultimate immigrant, an orphan blasted across the stars from a literal Old World. A man trying to reconcile his ethnic heritage with his apple pie Kansas upbringing. Though it's been 75 years since two working class Jewish high school students put pen to paper and created him, he's never strayed too far from the original conception; that of someone who beats up bullies; be they slumlords, wife-beaters and corrupt politicians in the thirties, to Hitler and the Axis powers, to alien overlords and supergeniuses in the modern day.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
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The Iceman is a monster story told from the point of view of the monster. Richard ‘The Iceman’ Kuklinski was one of the most prolific known hitmen in US history, who claimed to have killed between 100 and 250 people both at the behest of his mob employers and simply because he had an innate compulsion to kill. The name ‘Iceman’ was applied by the press in reference to his tactic of freezing the bodies of his victims, then thawing them out at a later date so the police couldn’t estimate a time of death. Kuklinski was as sinister a human being as its possible to imagine; a killer taking pride in his work and experimenting with the best ways to kill, using, variously, guns, knives, explosives, tire irons, poison, garottes - even beating people to death with his bare hands “just for the exercise”.
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