Word: scorpion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...struck by the adamantine sword of the Scorpion King, THE ROCK of ages is cleft for me. On one side, he's the indefatigably charismatic World Wrestling Federation superstar, a cocky, trash-talking fictional construct who punctuates baroque WWF story lines with the most famous physiognomic gesture in the history of sports entertainment--a vaulting eyebrow hoisted high above a gimlet stare. The Rock is the People's Champion, who employs something called the People's Elbow as his coup de grace...
Over lunch (The Rock/Johnson has a double order of pancakes), he seems almost coy about hyping his just-released action blockbuster The Scorpion King, in which he plays Mathayus, reprising the role he briefly assumed in The Mummy Returns. He spends the entire film in brown leather battle gear, impaling and slashing his enemies, except when he stops to have sex with a sorceress, after which, natch, her psychic powers are diminished...
Then, a week after the lunch, I'm trawling magazines for stories about The Scorpion King, and I discover verbatim recapitulations of almost every spontaneous aside and admission that I had thought Johnson made to me and me only. This guy is good. From the "p___-stained mattress" to his favorite doughnuts--glazed, chocolate-chocolate frosted, blueberry--it's all there...
...film is of the artist walking through the streets of New York kicking a metal bucket. The camera is very shaky and the lighting has a jaundiced quality to it. The clanging of the bucket is presented in surround sound, and it is much more exciting than The Scorpion King...
Movie The Scorpion King...