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V for Vendetta review

Holy crap!

I know what you’re thinking and, you’re right, I should never start a review this way. But, please, trust me, when thinking about “V for Vendetta,” the initial words leaving your mouth as the curtain closes will be something strikingly similar. And that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to make this exclamation in praise. In fact, said reaction could go either way, positive or negative. But, rest assured, you will have an opinion, a strong one, a loud one, and more than likely you’ll state it to everyone just as soon as you possibly can.

For the record, my exclamation is in praise. High praise. Effusive even; Without a doubt, “V for Vendetta” is the single ballsiest major studio motion picture of this young millenium. Hidden behind a facade shaded in the cartoon features of a graphic novel (i.e. that is a comic book), this is a futuristic action-thriller where the hero is, as you probably know by now, a terrorist. Not just any terrorist, but one who believes in his motives completely, tries to indoctrinate others to his cause, kills because he wants to and, just in case you hadn’t gotten the point, likes to blow things up spectacularly.

Granted, he’s also insane, not exactly the nicest guy in the world, has a moral temperature that’s a bit fuzzy, seems to enjoy torturing people and loves using v-flavored verbal alliteration. He is as complicated and conflicted a character we’ve seen in ages, alternately off-putting and enthralling in almost equal measures.

 But here’s the thing guaranteed to infuriate every right-wing ultra-conservative religiously intolerant person in America: V, for all his faults and misguided revenge-fueled fantasies, is in fact, right.

Film Roles

Film Roles project: Stunt Man/Woman

Career Information.

Salary: Getting established as a full-time stuntman in the film and television industries may be as difficult as establishing an acting career, although once a stuntman gains a reputation and the connections needed to consistently land jobs, the salary is relatively lucrative: full-time film and television stuntmen earn annual salaries of about $70,000 as of December 2010, according to Made Man

Education: No special degrees are required to be a stuntman, though special training is necessary. You should be physically fit and accustomed to rigorous activity. Many stunt men and women choose to take judo and jiu-jitsu lessons, so they can learn how to fall with safety and relitavly no harm. Many tunt people choose to go to stunt school to learn how to drive correctly and help with jumping from tall hieghts.

Stunt men/women are part of the production some times post produdtion doing stunts that the actors them selves can not do. The key role of a stunt man/women is to do stunts that the actor can not do, including high performance driving, jumping from high places, fight scenes and many stunts at high altitudes including air plane and helicopter fighting.

Equipment:  equpiment commonly used by stunt men/women are Balies, cusions, specialy designed cars, fake weapons, blank rounds and guns.

Famous Stunt men/women:

Bud Ekins

Ekins is best known for his bold motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in the movie "The Great Escape." This was Ekins' first job and is remembered as his most famous stunt. He is also known for the high-speed chase through San Francisco in the movie "Bullitt" in which he drove a Ford Mustang GT. Ekins was the stunt double for Steve McQueen in these films. Other movies in which Ekins appeared are:

o Diamonds are Forever
o Earthquake
o The Towering Inferno
o The Blue Brothers

Paul Mantz

Mantz is best remembered as a movie stunt pilot. He has been labeled as the greatest pilot Hollywood ever saw and king of the Hollywood pilots. Mantz was audacious and would perform stunts that other pilots refused to do. Another thing that set Mantz apart from his counterparts was his thorough planning. He had the ability to fly a plane through or under objects that was thought to be impossible. However, Mantz was killed during the filming of the Flight of Phoenix when his plane hit the desert floor and broke in two. Mantz appeared in movies such as:

o The Galloping Ghost
o Air Mail
o The Bride Came C.O.D.
o The Flight of the Phoenix

Yakima Canutt

Canutt was a rodeo stuntman in many silent westerns along with a host of other films. He has been called Hollywood's most renowned stuntman, and he is labeled as a pioneer in his field. He is best known for the chariot race in the movie "Ben-Hur," and he is also known for his daring and dangerous stunts involving cattle stampedes and covered wagon races. Along with John Wayne, Canutt worked to make fight scenes appear more realistic and many of these techniques are still used today. A few of the films on which Canutt worked include:

o Riders of the Dawn
o Stage Coach
o Code of the Outlaw
o The Shadow of the Eagle

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How to be a stunt man: How to get there and what to do when there. By Bud Ekins