Lord of War
Hello everybody!
Before I even start, I would like to give a shout out to Stetson Kennedy. This is a white dude who infiltrated the KKK learnt all their secret codes and stuff and submitted them to the Publishers of the Superman cartoon. They went ahead and incorporated it into their cartoon so as to embarrass the KKKer’s. Must have worked cuz you don’t hear about the KKK that much these days.
How do I know this? Cuz I finally stopped reading the Da Vinci Code and moved on to something better. That book was a good treasure hunt story and all, but ultimately it ended up being a complete waste of my time. Yeah, decode this Dan Brown Zpvs cppl Tvdlt!!!! Hey actually, I give him props for being so creative and coming up with an original story… oh yeah that’s right, it’s not even an original story.
So much for following the masses… I don't even know what's worse, the fact that I actually read all 500 pages of it or that I'm actually going to see the movie...
Sad
Speaking of movies, after watching my first true movie in 2006 I felt compelled to temporarily step out of my blogging hiatus. And spread the word
This is a movie that so depressed me and angered me that I had to release my frustration here. It is titled Lord of War and stars Nicholas Cage and Ethan Hawke (don’t even know who dude was in the movie). And it’s basically about this guy who emigrated from Ukraine to the US and whose life is heading nowhere until he decides to do something with himself, become somebody.
He decides to be an arms dealer. So the movie basically takes us on a journey with him through his whole life from his first sale to the pre cold-war days, to the post cold-war boom. To the conflicts in West Africa. All this while he's trying to keep his wife and kid at home happy and in the dark. While also trying to help his brother rehab from his cocaine addiction.
There is a also an interesting caricature of Charles Taylor named Jean Baptiste. And the worse thing about it is that Charles Taylor was probably worse in real life than his caricature was in the movie.
Oops lol sorry, lol I just get a kick out of posting this picture again. anyway...
I liked the movie because even though it was a bit hollywood, it was a good depiction of how being a arms dealer is. If you come from any war torn country, it is a must see...
It was another illustration for me of how the system can only be changed from within...
posted by dkosei2 @ 12:00 PM
2 Comments:
Lol... how about crafting a more creative cryptogram Kofour... cmon now... it didn't take too long to break that... I'd put it on your comment box… but I wouldn't want to spoil it for the other readers.
Yeah, he "researched" around for ideas, but I'd give Brown props for being able to put a top-of-the-line thriller like that together, so magnificently, admit it… you were biting your nails while reading that book! He’s a talented fiction author… and I’ll applaud to that.. u hater u!!!=P
Ethan Hawke was the Interpol agent in the movie.
Its a really good film that does a great job of displaying a little-known truth (at least little-known to the Western world). Although its known that the 5 permanent members of the UNs Security Council are the world's biggest arm's dealers, the film really drives home the seriousness of it all quite well by showing the effect that just 1 arms dealer can have. Imagine what the arms sales of those 5 countries combined has caused.
Cage plays the role really well. And really, what he says near the end of the movie is quite right (and what you wrote is also right):
If there's no change from within, why would he go and stop doing what it is that he's doing, although he knows its wrong? Someone else will, unfourtunately, just be right behind him to take his place.
About the Da Vinci code, its not complex piece of literature, but it is a good adventure story. I don't know how talented Brown is as a fiction writer, though. More like, he just picked the right story and the right controversy.
And... lol yeah, work on your coding skills :)
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