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Car Forum / Ferrari Cars / September 2003[Ent] From "sword master" Nick Powell to the last Samurai Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai Studio: Warner Bros. Director: Edward Zwick Screenwriter: John Logan, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz Starring: Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Ken Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shun Sugata, Shin Koyamada, Seizo Fukumoto, Schichinosuke Nakamura, Koyuki, Masato Harada, Sosuke Ikematsu, Aoi Minato Plot Summary: After examining the ravages of 19th century America in his Academy Award-winning Civil War drama "Glory", director Edward Zwick explores the birth of modern Japan in "The Last Samurai," a sweeping epic set in Japan during the 1870s. Tom Cruise stars as Capt. Nathan Algren, a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his own sense of honor to guide him. Get The sword of The Last Samurai: http://2222695.898.net/ Or get the poster and teaser: http://www.lastsamurai.com/ Swordwork Note: (7/20/02) Tom Cruise is being trained in Japanese-style sword work for the film by "sword master" Nick Powell, who also trained Russell Crowe for Gladiator, the cast of The Mummy and Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Get The sword of The Last Samurai: http://2222695.898.net/ Greg's Preview Thoughts: 5/18/03 - The teaser trailer is now in theaters and online over at Apple.com, and I think it does a great job of introducing the movie, even if it's a little vague (as a teaser can be) about why exactly Tom Cruise is fighting in Japan, etc. One thing the teaser *does* accomplish, I think, is that it clearly shows the difference between the Samurai warriors and the black-uniformed soldiers who look like they're from 100 years in the future (in comparison). That juxtaposition most likely helps make the film seem as sad as it is probably intended. Get The sword of The Last Samurai: http://2222695.898.net/ What the f.ck? Spamming is really sinking to new lows. What a prick. > What the f.ck? Spamming is really sinking to new lows. What a prick. Morning Mikey. I didn't even see the spam.... but on the same subject, I had an e-mail spam the other day offering to sell me a mailing list with 'over 90 million addresses'. Since that's more than the population of this particular island, it made me wonder about the figures involved, which I found here: http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_15115 1,00.html In short, what it says is that the worldwide internet population is around 600 million users. Of these, currently the United Kingdom (population 60 million) has around 18 million 'active users', and the US (280 million) has around 125 million 'active users'. If one bunch of spammers claim to have lists of 90 million addresses, I'm sure others have similar numbers (no doubt with a great proportion of duplicates). I wonder what proportion of the world's 600 million users are on spam lists. I also wonder what all this low grade (often illiterate) untargeted and irritating marketing is worth, and what the cost is in terms of wasted time filtering through all of it. ...and what really gets me is tossers who know we'll filter out 'viagra' so spell it 'v1agra' - to try to make us see adverts for things we specifically want to avoid. What kind of sales strategy is that, FFS? When I was a kid, I really believed the future would resemble something from Star Trek... Oh well. Just a few depressing thoughts which have nothing to do with Ferraris, but unfortunately a lot to do with this newsgroup. Paul Kirk: "Spock! are you reading any life forms on the planet?" Spock: "Unable to process, Captain - I am currently attempting to erase 400 e-mails offering me ear extensions." -- Http://www.redmist.freeserve.co.uk > Kirk: "Spock! are you reading any life forms on the planet?" > Spock: "Unable to process, Captain - I am currently > attempting to erase 400 e-mails offering me > ear extensions." That was very funny. I tried to email you a response to your bizarre email today, and your email appeared to be down (%&#?). I could read that whole email perfectly, per it's point, but the "word" in the subject line stymied me for several minutes, so maybe the theory expressed isn't exactly bulletproof. I keep wondering if the Internet itself could be rendered totally unuseable due to all the spam, mass-marketing, advertising, etc. that is clogging it up ... but if there was ever a medium that brings out the "sheep" in all of us, it's the Internet. It is a great tool, and yet at the same time it is a very savage "equalizer" - any dork can find a pertinent fact now. I don't know if that's good or bad. I use it an awful lot, but sometimes I sit back and wonder if the time could be spent better. I imagine we're blessed and cursed with it, in all its iterations, for the rest of our time here. See now, if we were a government, we could just build an Internet2 - that one will supposedly be faster than lightning from Zeus and free of all advertising clutter. But, I don't think it will have any porn on it. MC > I keep wondering if the Internet itself could be rendered totally > unuseable due to all the spam, mass-marketing, advertising, etc. that > is clogging it up ... I had to diversify my DNS service, last week, when my former DNS provider, in an attempt to filter a denial of service attack ... took down their service. I've spent much of the last two months trying to recover when a CERT advisory inadvertantly rendered the Internet opaque to an unpublished protocol. We're rapidly approaching the point where virus responses are causing as many problems as the viruses. > See now, if we were a government, we could > just build an Internet2 - that one will supposedly be faster than > lightning from Zeus and free of all advertising clutter. But, I don't > think it will have any porn on it. And the "documentation" would be hand scribbled notes some GS-5 is keeping in his shoe, to maintain security -- e.g. his job security. -- Speaker for the D00d Nobody else can fix my server. This is _my_ server. I will hug it and pet it and I will call it "George". |
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