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The oldest of them stepped forward and struck me on the chest with an open palm. Confident and aggressive.
‘We saw you walking up the beach,’ he said, smiling.
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The Duel
Posted in The Duel with tags ants, bible, boaz, faith, naomi, Pike Bishop, Russel Hoban, ruth, scorpions, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on November 18, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
Americans, Scorpions and Ants
Posted in Fiction, Film with tags A Farewell to Arms, a Revolution in Hollywood and the making of a Legendary Film, ants, Camille Paglia, Coppola, De Palma, Emilio Fernandez, Ernest Hemingway, Pike Bishop, Sam Peckinpah, scorpions, Scorsese, The Wild Bunch, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, W.K. Stratton, Warner Brothers, William Holden on June 30, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
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The governing metaphor of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch is impressed on both protagonist and audience alike in the first moments of the film.
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Americans, Scorpions and Ants
Posted in Fiction, Film with tags A Farewell to Arms, A Mouthful of Stones, Americans, ants, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Frederic Henry, Hadji Murat, Leo Tolstoy, scorpions, War and Peace on June 20, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Theme Park at its Darkest 