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“Closing Time” - Semisonic
Now finish your whiskey and beer!
“Ordinary World” - Duran Duran
“The Way it is” - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
“Walking in Memphis” - Marc Cohn
“Nothing Compares 2 U” - Sinead O’Connor (originally written by Prince)
“House of the Rising Sun” - The Animals
Awesome, classic song!
1. Sexy Beast (2000)
2. City Slickers (1991)
3. Green Lantern (2011)
4. Old School 2003
5. Silver Bullets (2011)
6. Young Adult (2011)
7. Dark Floors (2008)
8. Metal Skin (1994)
9. Black Panther (2018)
Dang... don’t know the name of the song, but I know it’s by Alanis Morissette...
I turn my back to the wind
To catch my breath
Before I start off again
Driven on
Without a moment to spend
To pass an evening
With a drink and a friend
“Livin’ on a Prayer” - Bon Jovi
“Hello, Goodbye” - The Beatles
Good conversation!
When we look through the filter of the original trilogy, yes, Vader is definitely number two below the Emperor. But I’m not convinced that was Lucas’s plan in the first movie. Taken on its own, Tarkin certainly seems to wield more authority than Vader.
When the Senate is formally dissolved, it is Tarkin, not Vader, that this information is passed to first. You would think the Emperor’s right hand would know that first in case any action needed to be taken.
And if Vader respected Tarkin’s authority for commanding the Death Star, Tarkin must have been REALLY up there. After all, Vader had no problem choking the life out of a fleet admiral, on his own ship, in front of his crew, in Empire. So, somewhere along the line Vader’s respect for authority took a rather steep decline. He may not have said, “I’m the right hand of the Emperor...”. But killing someone in cold blood is a lot more dramatic than mere words!
Good thing about fiction... you can watch and dream up your own interpretations!
Add Heather Graham to that list!
I would differ with your opinion of Vader. In the original Star Wars, Vader was clearly subservient to Tarkin, taking his orders several times without question. That would make Vader the strong man to Tarkin. It wasn’t until Empire where Vader became the unfettered big bad guy... and even then, he was under the shadow of the Emperor.
Cabot Cove
Population: 150
Homicides: 300
Murder Rate: 200%
If things really happened like they did on that show, Jessica’s home town would have a violent crime rate that would dwarf that of any major city!
Spaceballs and Galaxy Quest... love them both!
There was a scene in the movie “The Exterminator” (1980) where the hero hangs a mob boss over a large, industrial meat grinder and SLOWLY has him lowered into the grinder, feet first. From the speed he was lowered, it probably took many minutes before the blades would have reached vital organs, so I imagine the mob boss got to experience excruciating pain for quite some time as his legs, bones and all, were slowly ground to hamburger.
That would suck!
Great minds think alike!
2. Pulp Fiction - What was in the briefcase? Just as with your example, there’s lots of speculation, but they never say in the movie.