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DIED. PAUL CONKLIN, 74, the Peace Corps's first official photographer, whose famous shot of a Vietnam War protester placing a daisy in the barrel of a National Guardsman's gun crystallized the antiwar sentiments of a generation; of cancer; in Port Townsend, Wash...
...spiky haircut or the fact that he's a 22-year-old Canto-pop idol. But as Chen strides down the claustrophobic hallways of a Hong Kong tenement in the opening scenes of Infernal Affairs II (IA2), there's a whiff of De Niro menace?especially when Chen, his gun concealed in an envelope, shoots an elderly crime boss through a doorway grill in a brutal, abrupt hit. The shot is a conspicuous reference to De Niro's first murder in Godfather II, and it stakes the ground for IA2's epic?and violent?aspirations...
When Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968, Plimpton—who was walking in front of the senator—wrestled the gun away from assassin Sirhan Sirhan...
...standard action trope. The high point here is El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) and his bride (Salma Hayek), chained together, in a breathtaking escape down the sheer wall of a hotel. It is beautifully managed--a cliched situation without any cliches in its development. Rodriguez even stages an eerie gun battle, in which all the weapons are silencer equipped. Wow, you say, why didn't anyone think of that before...
...Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle, high cheekbones-all the noir accessories. Open your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside, ready to make your face a map of welts. Pang never gets much momentum going here; he's happy to synopsize the genre conventions. And thriller directors never tire of "referencing" the shower...