A G.I. Joe Decibel
This movie is a sign that there's a new age interest in pedestrianism-consciousness, which perhaps echoes our cultural investments in traffic-centric populism networking technologies (i.e., Facebook).
So this movie inspired me to come up with a short pedestrian-hyped fan-fic about 'real life paranoia.'
How cool was Josh Hartnett in this film?
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Alas was a British orphan trapped in purgatory on the streets of 2001 London. His deceased abusive father, an alcoholic, left him with nothing, forcing Alas to find ways to survive --- pickpocketing, begging, bootlegging, thieving, etc. However, Alas had a keen interest in Christianity and kept a copy of the Bible (which he stole from a church) and read it everyday. He was very interested in ideas and words in the Bible about calamity and destitution (e.g., 'AntiChrist,' 'manslayer,' 'bottomless pit,' 'avenger of blood,' etc.).
Alas decided to hop on a ship as a stowaway and travel to America and landed up in Los Angeles, where he befriended some Hollywood movie 'extras' and started mingling with the criminal underworld while learning about American culture. America was undergoing changes. Hollywood was making incendiary films such as Fight Club, Syriana, and American Psycho. The American movie star Tom Cruise was giving various speeches on talk-shows about Scientology and America's endangered spiritual vigor.
Alas decided to join the immensely-popular social networking website Facebook. He noticed people from around the world liberally posting and sharing personal photos, and even politicians and celebrities had profile pages and marketing-savvy 'advertisements' posted on it. Alas realized that world culture was being gauged by a 'culture of convenience' (e.g., eBay, eTrade, etc.), and he agreed with Tom Cruise's assessment that Americans were in danger of falling prey to a kind of lifestyle gluttony.
Alas started reading G.I. Joe (Hasbro) comic books and became fascinated with America's peculiar interest in pedestrian vigilante and vigilantism-daydreams. Hollywood, meanwhile, was making a ton of comic book adapted films such as The Dark Knight and Iron Man. Alas read a strange report in the Washington Post about a terrorist from ISIS who had developed a super-Internet virus designed to destabilize all kinds of Facebook functionality. Alas decided to write Tom Cruise a personal letter:
"I'm from Britain, and I basically live on the ledge of life, making ends meet. I'm currently in L.A., near your Hollywood movie studios. I'm a big fan of G.I. Joe (Hasbro) comic books and read about the ISIS terrorist attacking the pedestrian-marketed website Facebook. It seems to me, Mr. Cruise, that you are correct that America is vulnerable to a kind of lifestyle-malaise, which is why ISIS and the Taliban are targeting traffic-centric 'institutions' such as Facebook and the World Trade Center. You're in a position to be a great role-model in the media, so I was wondering if you're interest in coordinating a pedestrianism-focused Americana culture 'vigilance podium.'"
Tom Cruise read the letter in his fan-mail collection and decided to visit Alas's Facebook page (since Alas included the website address in his letter). He decided to post something on Alas's page under a masked-alias:
"Alas, I might be that Tom Cruise you wrote an interesting fan-letter to concerning 'Americana culture vigilance.' I too am a fan of G.I. Joe (Hasbro) comics and think that if we coordinate citizen interest with celebrity interest, we can actually be the kind of 'anti-terrorism heroes' we read about in comic books. Perhaps we'll meet someday and talk about some kind of 'grassroots guerrilla patriotism.' I know a lot of 'strange-crusaders' (and 'loudmouth-upstarts')!"
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