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...Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger...
...University of Regensburg. His vehicle was a talk about reason as part of Christianity's very essence. His nominal target was his usual suspect, the secular West, which he said had committed the tragic error of discarding Christianity as reason-free. But this time he had an additional villain in his sights: Islam, which he said actually did undervalue rationality and which he strongly suggested was consequently more inclined to violence...
...Bullitt pursuing a black Dodge Charger through San Francisco and then, just outside the city, pulling along side to smack the car into a gas station for a pyrotechnic finish. Or Gene Hackman, as detective Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, careering through Brooklyn streets while chasing a villain in an elevated train, smashing cars along...
...cute witticisms, but it’s also a great spy thriller in its own right. There are still plenty of Bond traditions intact in this installment. The locations (the Bahamas, Venice, and Madagascar among others) display the upper class lifestyle that is distinctive to the franchise. The villain has a unique physical attribute as well: because of a disfigured eye, he cries tears of blood. And, as always, there is the Bond Girl. This time around the BG is the beguiling Vesper Lynd, played by the impossibly attractive Eva Green. While Craig’s 007 is grittier, Casino?...
Unfortunately, Casino Royale has to stick to the Fleming plot; it must also be Basic Bond. (The movie is so personality-split that 007 could refer to the number of the hero's warring personalities.) In this case, that demands not just the sneering villain (Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre, banker to the terrorist élite) and the tempting females, one blond (Ivana Milicevic) and one brunet (the criminally alluring Eva Green). It means that the focus of the plot must be ... a card game! We grant that high-stakes poker has its tension, especially if it's your hand...