I was looking at stills from the movie adapation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road the other day, wondering whether the movie version of the greatest book ever written could hit me just as hard as the written word did.
I cried uncontrollably at the end of the book--like gushing, heaving, sobs of sorrow. Ultimately the book is about hope (I think), but being a father and having three kids---I was Niagara falls.
Anyway, in one of the stills, Viggo Mortenesen (my #1 man crush!) is holding a pistol and I recall that it helps him out on at least one occasion in the book.
And there's Tom Cruise, blasting everyone into compliance with a gun pop into the air in War of the Worlds.
And there's also Mel Gibson in the Road Warrior when he was simply violent and not a soldier in his god's army. Remember him fumbling for his shotgun shells and how defeated everyone looked when he stuck in their face? The mohawk guy in Mad Max got his mohawk blown off I think, and instantly wasn't as big of a bad ass.
And yet, a few year's later, the Mohawk Guy returns to the past to crash Wyatt and Larry?'s party in Weird Science. That creepy freak from the Hills have eyes was there too. Those two dweebs chased them off, with what?
That's right the, the BOOM STICK.
When shit gets crazy and the twisted take on the innocent, there's only one thing that keeps the space in between them---firepower.
This hit me the other day for some reason and I actually found myself browsing the Sig-Sauer Web site. Will I ever buy one? I doubt it. Am I filling out my NRA membership card? Certainly not.
But if the bombs start dropping, I'm driving over to my dad's house and looting his arsenal.
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