Word: octopuses
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...Jimmy made like three saves,” Whitehead said, “and nobody cleared the rebound. He’s not an octopus with eight legs, you know. He’s got two legs. We just have to protect our goalie better. I thought they did that, and we did not. It’s pretty simple...
...latter include a soulful scientist (Alfred Molina) who, having fooled with Mother Nature, is somehow transformed into a great, clanking mechanical octopus; back from Spidey I, Peter's spunky, sweet-spirited aunt (the divine Rosemary Harris); and the meanest newspaper managing editor in movie history (J.K. Simmons). Occasionally, a street singer shows up to croak awful ballads about Spidey's exploits, and poor Auntie can't even get a toaster premium, much less a desperately needed loan, from her bank...
...perfect pit stop during a night of carousing. These roving canteens usually serve tak go chi, or chicken skewers, the staple stomach-liner for Seoul's legions of soju-imbibing salarymen. More adventurous eaters, meanwhile, will want to keep an eye out for pig intestines stuffed with glass noodles; octopus tentacles; and the infamous bon dae gi-boiled silkworm larvae. To the uninitiated gourmand, a simmering bucket of larvae might look-and smell-distinctly less than alluring, but there's no better way to get a quick taste of everyday life on the streets of Seoul...
...That's where Old Boy and the Tarantino oeuvre part company, in the Korean movie's belief that guilt, not vengeance, can be the spur to a man's darkest deeds. The film's big set pieces?the devouring of a live octopus, the tongue removal without benefit of anesthetic, even a bout of lovemaking?are essentially acts of self-mutilation, in a world where Original Sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. That's not a Hollywood precept. What American movie would climax with the hero begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes? What U.S. movie...
...storylines, but to much sillier ends. "The Octopi" imagines the brainy encepholopods as being at constant war with the brawny sharks. In order to retrieve an important talisman from the sharks, the octopi kidnap a boy by substituting his school bus with an amphibious vehicle driven by a disguised octopus. After bringing back the talisman the boy gets folded into the shape of an envelope and returned via post to his parents. It goes on, but you get the idea. The nonsensical story exists only as a reason to make pictures. Printed with deep-blue ink, James' unconventional style evokes...