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...speaking to the colonel who is selling him the guns. The colonel glares at me. I know he doesn't believe that I'm a friend of Joe's from across the border in Malaysia who needs a gun for protection. He starts to shout in Thai. Joe nods politely, putting to one side the 10 weapons he has selected. Smiling all the time, carefully avoiding eye contact with the colonel, Joe reaches into a waist pack and counts out a thick wad of Malaysian currency. "I won't bring her again, I promise. Here, this is 11,000 ringgit...
...world, Ritchie is Madonna's new husband. But cinephiles know him as the creator of try-anything violent crime farces. A couple dozen hard guys plot stupid heists, shout droll obscenities and, for punctuation, kill people. Imagine the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera, only everybody's packing. Comic congestion is Ritchie's game; he's like a Preston Sturges who's done time...
...still known as a hard-line troublemaker. He comes off terribly in the papers: wheedling, whining, gleefully back-stabbing peers unlucky enough to have missed a meeting. Watch as he tries to manipulate Deng Xiaoping in an early conclave: "Some of the protest posters and the slogans that students shout during the marches are anti-Party and anti-socialist," he says. "The spear is now pointed directly at you and the others of the elder generation." And then watch Deng, 83, nibble at the catnip: "Saying I'm the mastermind behind the scenes, are they...
THEN AGAIN... Not every movie has to shout. Yang's visual whispers have a cumulative impact. The viewer gets to know each member of the troubled family, to see what makes them unique--and universal. Yang is like the family's wise young son (Jonathan Chang) who takes pictures of the backs of people's heads. "You couldn't see it," he says, "so I showed you." Yang takes pictures of the pain in people's souls...
...that Israeli rules of engagement are interpreted subjectively by whichever soldier happens to be senior man on the scene. In some cases, that can leave the decision in the hands of a conscript just out of high school. Army regulations say that in regular situations, a soldier should shout a warning before shooting and that the first shots should be aimed for an attacker's legs. But anytime Palestinians open fire on Israelis, the warning stages are bypassed. Orders are to shoot to kill right away...