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...LA: I was involved with a firm while I still lived in Germany. I didn’t participate in the fighting, but I was accepted as the firm’s mascot. I met a couple of hooligans while I was teaching martial arts, and I begged them to let me tag along. They were quite considerate and protective...
...LA: Ironically, the American studios were scared of the film because it is “too violent.” That’s crazy. That anyone in America would say that this film is too violent is incredibly hypocritical...
...LA: If it appears that I glamorize violence in acts one and two it is because it is necessary that I establish why such a lifestyle if seductive. I needed to show the rush and appeal of hooliganism, but ultimately I have made an anti-violence film. THC: Did you hope to make any broader statements about human nature with this film...
...LA: I set the film in the world of soccer hooliganism, but I think the tendency to turn to violence as means of conflict resolution is universal. Here in America, after being attacked, our first response was to go and kick some other country’s ass. War has higher stakes than hooliganism, but it’s the same animal instinct in the human race to turn to violence. We have to question...
Senators Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and David Vitter (R-La.) took Bush up on his promise and presented a bill asking for $250 billion for Gulf Coast reconstruction, in addition to the $62.3 billion in already approved emergency spending (which works out to $312,300 per person potentially affected by the storm). The new bill includes $40 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisiana—10 times last year’s Corps budget for the entire country—as well as $50 billion for communities with vague “long-term recovery?...