Old beauty's non-theme

Nathaniel 2022-03-22 09:02:05

Started like an angel, suddenly turned into a bitch, actually a poor lamb. The video of Eli giving a lecture at the end of the film brings this dark story to an end. I thought it was another Chinatown, but it was more like an unknown recipient, in terms of artistic conception. Anti-military and anti-X is anti-violence and anti-pornography, rethinking.
So many familiar faces. Jack's father was so skinny that he didn't look like a general. In fact, he was not 60 at the time, so he looked old! The male protagonist in Videodrome is another perverted good guy. There is also the female psychiatrist from Twelve Monkeys, this time it is almost a counselor + a detective. John Travolta is his most successful positive image, the grinning bad boy version of justice incarnate.
It has been performed in the Central Six and in movie theaters, and it is of course obligatory to expose the ugliness of the old beauty. It only takes a few knives.

Brenner: What's worse than rape?
Moore: When you find that out you'll have all the answers.

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The General's Daughter quotes

  • [Colonel Fowler asks Brenner for a favor in his investigation]

    Col. George Fowler: Mr. Brenner. I understand you have special arrest powers.

    Brenner: Yes, sir.

    Col. George Fowler: But I'm going to ask before you arrest anyone, you notify me.

    Brenner: Why is that, sir?

    Col. George Fowler: We don't like our personnel being arrested by outside people without our knowing about it. There are three ways of doing things - The right way, the wrong way, and the Army way. See that in doing it your way, Mr. Brenner, you don't forget about the Army way.

  • [Sunhill and Brenner watch a tape of one of Elisabeth Campbell's teachings]

    Capt. Elisabeth Campbell: [the tape plays] Our job here at Psy Ops is to panic the enemy, to blunt his will to fight. A Psy Operator must know the customs and habits of the enemy, the current dissensions, anxieties, and fears to determine vulnerability. To engage the enemy, you must know the enemy inside out. You must fill him with fear, and not just fear of dying. Fear of grotesque wounds is much more terrifying.

    Sunhill: [Sunhill stops the tape] Ugh. Grotesque wounds.

    Brenner: [Brenner smiles] I'll show you mine if you show me yours.