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For someone who's the most dangerous hacker...

posted 12 years ago by jewelparsons1234
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This is in reference to Ginger's (Halle Berry) line to Stanley (Hugh Jackman) when she first meets him.

For someone the NSA once listed as the most dangerous hacker in the world... you sure don't look like much...

Seriously, what the f--k were you expecting the "most dangerous hacker" to look like? Arms like Arnold? Sculpted chest? Rippling traps? A Playboy haircut?

I'd say for a hacker Stanley looks exceptionally sharp. I would have expected him to be 400lbs of pure lard, unable to move properly with a beard that reached the Netherlands and hygiene that would raise a dead decomposing skunk from it's filthy grave.

Yeah I know, it wasn't the silliest thing in the movie but it had me in awe of it's... well, you know. Sillyness.

[–] Merrida 12 years ago

It's because she didn't mean it literaly. The comment was never intended to be presumed at face value. She's using sexuality and a play on words to flirt and infer. Don't read too much into it brother, you'll hurt your brain.

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[–] jewelparsons1234 12 years ago

Damn.

Guess flirting must have been a whole different art-form for the older generation back then.

Here was me thinking it was supposed to be sexy.

[–] Merrida 12 years ago

Well yeah, of course, there's that too! :)
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[–] CapnKaos 12 years ago

Think about it, what's the first thing you think about when you think of a computer hacker? A pale, kinda skinny guy with glasses and no real physical kind of presence.

Stanley looked like a GQ model, a regular hacker at least in the movies would have looked more like DJ Qualls.

Or Ginger might have been implying that simply because of his looks he didn't look that smart.

[–] Xavior_Penguin 8 years ago

Y'all are overburdening yourselves with stereotypes. I've never seen an obese hacker and I knew a dozen of them in real life. They're more likely to be skinny than fat. Besides being paler than average and rather paedomorphic, they look like anyone else.

~Lance