Word: brutalize
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Early in the film, Vivien Leigh, as the Southern belle with patrician airs, lays eyes on Marlon Brando as sweaty, sexy, brutal Stanley Kowalski. That's the crucial moment when films gave up a love of the American aristocracy for a fascination with the roiling underclass, and when actors were given license to rage and mumble--to express the inchoate feelings of souls caged or adrift, doomed by society or destiny...
...first of two “volumes” (the second to be released in February), Kill Bill focuses on The Bride’s recovery from the DiVAS’ brutal assassination attempt and the beginning of her solitary mission, in which she tracks down the first two Vipers on her hit list: O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) and Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), code-named Cottonmouth and Copperhead, respectively. Much like Pulp Fiction, the film is delivered in chapters that are presented in a thematic, rather than chronological, order. With each episode, the film adds a few more...
...room is dominated by the screech of Asics boxing boots against the hardwood floor and the flat, brutal sound of gloved fists making contact with the bags. Gurkoff chants to himself, “Pivot, punch” as he dances around a black and turquoise punching...
...Harvard English department isn’t the only sex-obsessed one out there, shocking as it may seem). I’ve gone home to re-read Yeat’s “September, 1913” poem after learning in history class about the brutal crushing of a strike in Dublin that inspired the poem...
...attacked by a troublemaker from whom we should simply turn away. This is a war, not an academic debate over cultural norms or schoolyard bullies. Iyer said we should learn something from the Japanese, who embraced their conquerors. He forgot that they did so only after years of brutal war and a total defeat. Remember Pearl Harbor? There is no way we can "move on" after the 9/11 attacks. Keith N. Meader Hong Kong...