Word: harpooned
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...world. Whenever a fin whale rose up from the depths to blow out air in a watery spray, the inflatable would run brazen interference for the giant mammal, interposing itself between the whaler and its quarry. With growing frustration, Captain Thordur Eythorsson, 36, stood by his ominous-looking harpoon gun atop the whaler's bow, unable to make his kill...
Paxton's style guarantees the sincerity of his commitment. With a carefully distilled mixture of honesty and bitterness, Paxton reaches his apex in "White Bones of Allende." As he blames United States intervention for the collapse of Allende's government, he aims his harpoon at Kissinger's global politics of amorality...
...this piece, Tragedy taken too seriously becomes Farce, and forced Farce is Tragedy. Real laughter is indiscriminate in its intuitive understanding of the irrational, as well as its recognition of the ubiquity of absurdity. How then can the Lampoon take itself seriously? One might as well ask how a harpoon can harpoon itself...
...changed the entire flavor of his character-a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton-inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill. "I always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one. It appealed to me because I used to be very expert at knife throwing...
These scenes of derring-do are the third great virtue of the film. Part of the credit goes to the scope of the adventure--a harpoon being shot from one skyscraper to another, a million gallons of water drenching the banquet room--but most of it goes to the intensity and novelty...