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...which Aubrey and Maturin play classical music together in the Captain’s cabin. After scenes of wartime devastation, these scenes are beautiful. Scenes like these are often just a device, intended to demonstrate the hero’s more complex nature: he is more than a brute, the screenwriters hope to demonstrate. In this case, however, Crowe handles these scenes skillfully enough that they don’t seem contrived; Aubrey becomes a real man rather than the caricature so common in Bruckheimer knock-off action fests...
...real Russell Crowe is not quite Aubrey, the unambiguously heroic fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...
...about that. It's about working together. It's about mental toughness and stick-to-itiveness; it's about making prudent decisions. It's the hardest work you've ever done in your life, but it's also the joy of our life. It's not about individual brute strength...
...Wars are about applying brute force to induce capitulation from rational state-actors. We’ve been using this force against plants. Plants are not rational actors,” Tree said...
...entering the race passed Saturday evening, Conan the Candidate was one of several dozen vying for that responsibility. Among the others on the ballot: socialite turned populist cable pundit Arianna Huffington, ex--baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, pornographer Larry Flynt and porn star Mary Carey. Representing the et tu, Brute wing of Davis' party is his Lieutenant Governor, Cruz Bustamante...