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...been warped by seeing The Matrix. The Paducah killings were supposed to have been triggered by The Basketball Diaries. Another movie is now raising questions in the Virginia Tech massacre - because the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, made a photo in which he looks fierce and holds a raised hammer, in a manner similar to a shot in Park Chan-Wook's 2003 film Oldboy. Both Cho and the film are originally from South Korea. Both have undergone Americanization: Cho by moving to the U.S. when he was a kid, Oldboy by getting remade as a Hollywood movie that, last...
...vigorous rewrite.) It's also worlds removed from what happened in Blacksburg. That was closer to a standard American revenge scenario, where the hero takes violent action against those he thinks wronged him. (Death Wish, anyone?) And don't forget that the weapon of choice in Oldboy was a hammer, which no one planning a mass murder would pack in his arsenal...
...Virginia Tech professor saw what he believed were similarities between one of Cho's photographs and the South Korean movie Oldboy, by the director Chan-wook Park, about a man who seeks vengeance on the man who kept him unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. Cho photographed himself flourishing a hammer, the movie 's trademark weapon, in a pose that the professor, Paul Harris, said resembled one from the film. Another possible outgrowth of the media storm is that, according to the Korea Herald newspaper, Cho's parents are currently under the protection of the Virginia State Police...
Some of the pictures show him smiling. Some depict him brandishing two weapons at a time, one in each hand. He wears a khaki-colored military-style vest, fingerless gloves, a black T-shirt, a backpack and a backwards, black baseball cap. Another photo shows him swinging a hammer two-fisted. Another shows an angry-looking Cho holds a gun to his temple...
...Justin Grinstead was the team’s other winner, taking the 400-meter hurdles in 54.56 seconds, while classmate George Eggers was fourth in the same event. Sophomore Derek Jones finished second in the 200 meters after a 22.94 second time. Freshman Neville Irani took second in the hammer throw with a 51.0-meter heave, while senior co-captain Christian Ayers was fourth with a 50.04-meter toss. Freshman Graham Infinger was fourth in the long jump after a 6.64-meter leap. The team will face Yale next weekend at McCurdy Track in its sole home meet...