Relatable complaints
“circumstances under the free market
under bad morale
being fucked
piece of shit
doesn’t give a fuck
making all this money off his labour
no incentive to get better
goes on all over the place
not saying theres no advantage
in theory a place like this would go under
most of its services are done properly
my point is that
you shouldn’t have made that mistake.”
This song is (apparently) about the Trade War between the US and China.
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贸易战 歌曲 完整版 ｜作词 赵良田
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关注我以获得中美贸易战更多咨询和最新动态。为中国打气。为华为打气。请听这首歌曲。谢谢。
＃贸易战 ＃贸易战歌曲 ＃中美贸易战 ＃歌曲
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我是中国的女婿。我在秘鲁支持华为和中国品牌（我的中国老婆和我总是使用华为和小米），让我们一起来做吧！
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瘟豬吃太多的下場
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現在的中國還能用文革式的歌曲來黑美國？這是反宣傳吧
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我還以為又是北韓新歌
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朝鲜共和国国歌
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Soyuz Rocket Struck by Lightning During Launch
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A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket was struck by lightning during launch on May 27, 2019. The mission was a success despite the strike, the GLONASS-M satellite the rocket was carrying reached orbit. – Full Story: space.com/russian-rocket-….
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The title should be: Lightning struck by Soyuz rocket during Launch
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In Soviet Russia lightning bolt don’t strike you. You strike lightning bolt.
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In the “new” Russia, lightning bolt only strikes when Putin says so!
Yeah, I know it’s a ripoff of a Chuck Norris joke.
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Martín Varela
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@Uncle Honkler *In Asgard
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Good wording Comrade!
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MrVolodus
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No worries, lightning was found today with 10 stabbing wounds … clear suicide. No more danger.
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Russian bias
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Luis Camero
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Dr Strangelove lmaoooooo
What the faaahhhq. Elon Musk who are you.
(01:01 for this amazing image of Excalibur.)
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(Almost) Every SpaceX Landing, In Order
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This is a video of every SpaceX landing or landing attempt of which a video was taken. I tried to edit it down as much as possible but it still ended up pretty long, mainly due to including Grasshopper and F9R flights (I didn’t feel I could use the word “every” if I didn’t). I made this because I couldn’t find any such compilations on Youtube. Most videos are from SpaceX’s Youtube Channel. Thanks for watching and thanks to SpaceX for all the excitement.
Here is the full list of all launches that I used as my notes while putting this together:
9-21-2012 Grasshopper Hop
11-01-2012 Grasshopper 2 story
12-17-2012 Grasshopper 12 story
03-07-2013 Grasshopper 24 story
04-17-2012 Grasshopper 250m
06-14-2013 Grasshopper 325m Full Precision Sensor Suite
08-13-2013 Grasshopper 250m, 100m Lateral Divert
8x. 09-29-2013 Falcon 9 Cassiope, Failure, Aerodynamically unstable, video of reentry burn here: youtu.be/RtDbDMRG3q8?t=128
10-07-2013 Grasshopper 744m Final Flight
04-17-2014 Falcon 9R 250m
11x. 04-18-2014 Falcon 9 CRS-3 Ocean Landing, Link to vid: youtube.com/watch?v=CjZ33….
05-01-2014 Falcon 9R 1000m
06-17-2014 Falcon 9R 1000m Grid Fins
07-14-2014 Falcon 9 Orbcomm-1 Ocean Landing
15x. 08-01-2014 Falcon 9R ??? No Vid
08-22-2014 Falcon 9R Failure, Aborted
09-21-2014 Falcon 9 CRS-4 Infrared Reentry Burn
01-10-2015 Falcon 9 CRS-5, ASDS, Failure, Hydraulic Fluid for Grid Fins
19x. 02-11-2015 Falcon 9 DSCOVR Ocean Landing, No Vid
04-15-2015 Falcon 9 CRS-6, ASDS, Failure, Sticky Throttle
06-28-2015 Falcon 9 CRS-7, Launch Failure, Stupid strut
12-22-2015 Falcon 9 Orbcomm-2 LZ1 SUCCESS
01-17-2016 Falcon 9 Jason-3, ASDS Failure, Leg Lockout
03-04-2016 Falcon 9 SES-9, ASDS Failure
04-08-2016 Falcon 9 CRS-8 ASDS SUCCESS
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In Thrust We Trust
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3 years ago
That one dislike is from Jeff Bezos
From seed thats been sown…
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Dire Straits - Telegraph Road - original studio version from Love Over Gold
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One of greatest piece of song writing and composition of the last 30 years. Showed the world what Mark K. could do…
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Worthy of Floyd, worthy of Dylan, worthy of Zeppelin.
Knopfler needs his induction to the Rock and Roll hall of fame already
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xelo Martin
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A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came walking down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back
Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their load
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road
Then came the mines, then came the ore
Then there was the hard times, then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph Road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river
And my radio says tonight it’s gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There’s six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I’ve got a right to go to work but there’s no work here to be found
Yes, and they say we’re gonna have to pay what’s owed
We’re gonna have to reap from some seed that’s been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the Telegraph Road
Well, I’d sooner forget, but I remember those nights
Yeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your hand on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like you don’t seem to care
But just believe in me baby and I’ll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'Cause I’ve run every red light on memory lane
I’ve seen desperation explode into flames
And I don’t wanna see it again
From all of these signs saying “sorry but we’re closed”
All the way down the Telegraph Road
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Rogério Machado
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Masterpiece. I listen to it since I was thirteen. Often. 
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Chiara Ceccon
Chiara Ceccon
6 years ago
Sono semplicemente fantastici…grazie per averli caricati
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Davide Barontini
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the best abt Dire!!;.-) be surely!!
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Without any doubt this is one of the greatest masterpieces of all times.
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Have you checked out the new live album from Dire Straits bassist John Illsley? Tracks include Private Investigations, Money for Nothing and Romeo and Juliet…
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Someone give this man a cigar
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It’s amazing how he capture the feeling of industry and the “9 to 5” same old same old feeling. And then pulls you out with the ending solo. Pure art work.
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Odin the Raven God - The Dark Path of Wisdom
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Let’s explore one possible interpretation of the god Odin in his quest for ultimate power and wisdom. The darker characteristics of this god reflect a solitary darker path towards enlightenment.
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This video was recorded at 6 o’clock, on a very cold December morning. I was already out before dawn, so I caught a lot of cold. You can hear it in my voice the effects of a very humid and cold morning. You might want to turn on the subtitles on this one hehe.
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Odin sacrificed of himself for wisdom, and it says in the Havamal that a man can bear no better burden than wisdom, for it is a friend on unknown ways and through many dangers. So then, wisdom is what saves… and our Ancestors understood that ultimately you can only save yourself. That’s the nature of enlightenment. It is a journey we have to make for ourselves. No one else can do it for us.
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This is what I’ve been trying to tell other Asatru people. I honestly dont think you can possibly follow down a path hailing Odin without knowing the evil things he’s done. I have and I accept it. I looked at the horrid things Odin has done and look at the evil deeds I’ve done. But when I look back at myself I wouldn’t say I am evil. It’s a sense of understanding that nobody is good or evil. With everything Odin has done whether you call it good or evil it had a purpose that led to a positive outcome for him and his tribe. It’s a scary lesson to learn if you have to be the leader of anything. Sometimes you have to do fucked up shit for the benefit of the tribe. Even if the action only benefits you. The things you might gain could be useful in the future.
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You’re still criminally unsubscribed to.
Thursatru and Rokkatru are deeply interesting philosophical interpretations of the Northern European faiths.
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3 months ago
I view Odin as a shaman. I think of him as god of the dead. Leading the Wild Hunt with Holda. Magic, runes, galdr. I think of Odin in these rolls more than the All Father and a king or lord. He will let you fall into madness if you ask him for what you want. He is not a god of let’s make this sunshine and roses.
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For the christians, salvation only means submission. There’s nothing moral or good about it. It’s just a choice they made, to opt out of the struggle for liberation and instead to just be someone else’s goy.
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Karina Nalbandyan
Karina Nalbandyan
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It’s not all back & white, but gray. This feels more human, for no human is 100% good or 100% evil.
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Jedi Black Knight
Jedi Black Knight
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There are lots of parallels between Odin and Shiva. I’m quite sure they have common roots.
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Theepic SkyrimPlayer
Theepic SkyrimPlayer
3 months ago
As my interpretation, odin is our mind, and the myths in the poetic edda are riddles that if interpreted correctly, you achieve wisdom and spiritual enrichment. Thinking that the gods are physical is spiritual darkness, the gods are not physical or living in another world, they are here, they represent nature, they represent truth, strength, wisdom, gravity, etc. Odin (our mind) it’s known as many names. The saver, the doomer, the corrupt, the just. We must act like the gods in order to be the best version of ourselves.
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Lugh Lamhfada
Lugh Lamhfada
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It sounds like you could say that Wotan incorporated his Jungian shadow.
Thank you, I got a lot from your video.
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A. Meise
A. Meise
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Odin reminds me on Chronos or Saturn, Lord of Time and so the Keeper of the Doorstep into the Byond.
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Rory Sullivan
Rory Sullivan
2 months ago
It’s only hard for us to comprehend the nature of the norse Gods if we look at them through the prism of the abrahamic faiths.
If, however, we understand Odin and other Gods as we understand ourselves and the behaviour of the human species then it makes alot more sense. I am drawn to the pagan Gods because of their faults, weakness and vulnerabilities.
Good video, very informative.
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“Self centered, blood stained, and selfish…”
I like him already.
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Jeff Bridges, John Goodman And Steve Buscemi Talk ‘The Big Lebowski’ In Extended Inteview | TODAY
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Actors Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, and Steve Buscemi sit down with NBC’s Harry Smith to talk about their cult classic “The Big Lebowski” more than 20 years after it hit theaters.
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Its like a cloud, in a blue sky, moving from being cut off from view by one tree to being cut off from view by another tree taking as much as five minutes. This gives good opportunity to study the cloud.
The thing one notices is that it changes slowly.
Then focussing on a piece of see the change, one gets transfixed, and begins to think about (sense) he air pressures and windlets that go into that real time being right there that one, observing it, becomes part of. This is especially palpable in watching a cloud.
Then, one snaps out of it and and behold the whole of the cloud again. And lo, it has changed entirely. There seems to be early anything left of the shape that was changing only ever so slowly.
What has changed is, along with the nuances of the cloud, our brain. The cloud took us in. What we have experienced now about he cloud is how it changes. And whichever shape the cloud might take next, this deeper character of its appearance, the pattern of its appearance, this we can see in its entirety, once we have seen in unfold in any part of it, once we have been involved in that change.
The will to power is a cameleon. That makes it endurable, and sneaky. But what is it that ti adapts to, whats its environment?
Itself, as a certain style.
It can’t just snap out of its own style, except it does from time to time, but not by its own will. It just happens because it was bound to. Like Super Mario.
Or porn. Thats an interesting style swap we went through.
Style in both cases and in all cases most likely changes when a certain capacity has been fulfilled.
Will to power is the water assembling at a dam, will to power is the water cascading down after breaking the dam, style is the moment the dam breaks, the way the waters are.
I think it is the final cause of how everything suddenly had to be 3d. I was a severely detrminental playcontrol wise, as a screen is powerful in 2 dimensions. 2d games are where gaming can surpass reality in ways. I 3d gimme the real thing rather than a controller and a tiny window and some preprogrammed moves. It was porn that did it, Lara Croft, the idea of showing breasts and thighs as the pinnacle of personal entertainment tech. Inevitable but I can never play 3d games without feeling like a caveman. I play, if ever, in these ancient weirdly particular, thus real, universes of 2d Odysseuses like Mario or Jimmy Lee or Link or Samus Aran truly flat archetypes and of infinite soul because of their eternal style. No 3d game as eternal style. The human race was expounded in Japanese-American terms without reservations about the illogical nature of the framework of chaos in which all determination comes to light. New shit has come to light, man. Every fucking nano tick new shit comes to light. Anyway this shit will keep coming to light until a new style is born.
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Pure Pwnage episode 1 - “Life of a Pro Gamer”
it became fetishistic, and covetous, playing to personal desires and dream-selves
Where 2d games had been about mind expansion through problem solving inside absurdity.
So the dude is recognized as a Zen master.
and his sayings are koans.
Like "yeah, well thats just like, your opinion, man… is something one would say to ones own mind.
Right before Trump turned him into a woman or what is supposed to pass for one these days.
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Snoop Dogg Freestyles Over His Own Beats
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Big Boy played some Snoop Dogg instrumentals for him to perform and freestyle on top of while in-studio at REAL 92.3 LA.
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Join us for an evening with Bret Easton Ellis, the critically acclaimed author of “Less Than Zero” and “American Psycho.” Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to hear Ellis discuss his first work of nonfiction “White,” described as an incendiary polemic about this young century’s failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what “freedom of speech” truly means. In White, Ellis eviscerates the perceived good that the social-media age has wrought, starting with the dangerous cult of likability.
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Payback 1999
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Cast overview, first billed only:
Mel Gibson Mel Gibson … Porter
Gregg Henry Gregg Henry … Val Resnick
Maria Bello Maria Bello … Rosie
David Paymer David Paymer … Arthur Stegman
Bill Duke Bill Duke … Det. Hicks
Deborah Kara Unger Deborah Kara Unger … Mrs. Lynn Porter
John Glover John Glover … Phil
William Devane William Devane … Carter
Lucy Liu Lucy Liu … Pearl (as Lucy Alexis Liu)
Jack Conley Jack Conley … Det. Leary
Kris Kristofferson Kris Kristofferson … Bronson
Mark Alfa Mark Alfa … Johnny’s Friend #2
Kwame Amoaku Kwame Amoaku … Radioman
Justin Ashforth Justin Ashforth … Michael, Bartender #1
Len Bajenski Len Bajenski … Fairfax Bodyguard #1
Storyline
Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of “the Outfit”, a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Fairfax, the crime boss.
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Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 4 March 1999 (Netherlands) See more »
Also Known As: Payback See more »
Filming Locations: 186 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA See more »
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Budget:$90,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend USA: $21,221,526, 7 February 1999, Wide Release
Gross USA: $81,526,121
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $161,626,121
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Production Co: Icon Entertainment International, Icon Productions See more »
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Runtime: 100 min | 90 min (director’s cut)
Sound Mix: DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
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Trivia
There was originally a scene where Porter rips out the eye of one of the guards in the Outfit’s building where his ex partner Val is. For some reason, this scene was not included in either the theatrical or Director’s Cut of the movie, and is only available in a very rare, bad quality, workprint. See more »
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When Rosie hugs Porter in the hall outside her apartment the ring is on her left ring finger. A minute later when she’s lighting the cigarette it’s on her left middle finger. See more »
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[first lines]
Porter: [voiceover] GSW: that’s what the hospitals call it: gunshot wound. Doctor has to report it to the police. That makes it hard for guys in my line to get what I call, quality health care.
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The UK cinema version and all subsequent video and DVD releases were cut by 5 seconds to remove the use of a butterfly knife. The Blu-ray reinstates the previously cut footage. See more »
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Featured in Same Story… Different Movie: Creating ‘Payback: The Director’s Cut’ (2007) See more »
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Anniversary Song
Music by Iosif Ivanovici
Arranged by Saul Chaplin
Lyrics by Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin
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It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
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Sway
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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Ain’t That a Kick in the Head
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Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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If I Had My Life to Live Over
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Apocalypse Now - Interview with John Milius
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John Milius is a screenwriter and director who came to prominence in the 1970s, when he was associated with Francis Ford Coppola and the pre-Star Wars (1977) George Lucas. Born on April 11, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, Milius was one of the first movie industry professionals to be a film school graduate, having matriculated at the University of … See full bio »
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2012 Red Dawn (1984 screenplay)
2011 Homefront (Video Game) (written by)
2008 Between the Lines: The True Story of Surfers and the Vietnam War (Documentary) (guest writer)
Rome (TV Series) (created by - 22 episodes, 2005 - 2007) (written by - 1 episode, 2005)
Trivia (43)
Attended Los Angeles City College and USC School of Cinema-Television, where he won an International Student Film Festival Award.
Is an avid gun collector.
Wrote the line, “Go ahead, make my day,” for Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” character in Sudden Impact (1983).
Wrote “U.S.S. Indianapolis” scene in Jaws (1975).
Member of the NRA Board of Directors from 1995-2001. He currently serves on the Public Affairs and Shotgun Committees.
Is a personal friend of the Coen brothers and was the inspiration for the character of Walter in the The Big Lebowski (1998).
Milius, an avid gun collector, insisted that part of his payment for writing Jeremiah Johnson (1972) be in antique weapons.
Through his work, on Rough Riders (1997), he was instrumental in causing President Theodore Roosevelt to be posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for acts of conspicuous gallantry on San Juan Hill.
Is one of the original founders of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Was Sergio Leone’s first choice to write Once Upon a Time in America (1984). But due to scheduling problems, and Leone’s struggle to acquire the rights of Harry Grey’s book The Hoods, Milius passed on the project.
Considers himself as a “zen anarchist”.
Despite his political beliefs, he is an avid fan of director Spike Lee.
His favorites films are Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948), and “Viva Villa,” Gillo Pontecorvo’s De slag om Algiers (1966) (aka Battle of Algiers), Raoul Walsh’s They Died with Their Boots On (1941), John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) and They Were Expendable (1945), Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969), Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) (aka Seven Samurai), Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950), Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960), John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941).
Is a close friend of MMA legends Rorion Gracie and Rickson Gracie and Jennifer Salt.
Was the inspiration for drag-racer John Milner (played by Paul Le Mat) in American Graffiti (1973).
Made an honorary member of the Sioux Nation, after his filming of Rough Riders (1997).
Turned down the role of Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink (1991).
Cigar smoker.
Despite making two films about Theodore Roosevelt, The Wind and the Lion (1975) and Rough Riders (1997), he considers himself too enamored with Roosevelt to ever make an actual biographical film about his life.
He was partially the basis for the character of Walter in the cult classic The Big Lebowski (1998).
Lost most of his fortune in the early naughts due to a corrupt accountant. Desperate to pay for his son’s Law School tuition, he asked his friend David Milch to hire him as a staff writer for Deadwood (2004). Milch refused based on the absurdity of hiring a veteran screenwriter for entry-level work, and instead offered to simply pay the son’s tuition in full. Milius later repaid Milch for the loan.
He didn’t get on to well with Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack on Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and he was fired. Milius claims that his substitute “…couldn’t write that stuff,” and the only who contributed anything was Edward Anhalt. Redford and Pollack ultimately rehired Milis after Anhalt had left the project.
He is Jewish.
Suffered a severe stroke, and was treated for pancreatic cancer.
He wrote some pilots which did not go to series - Dodge City (circa 2005) - a Western series for CBS, and Saigon Bureau (2008) - about the AIP Bureau of photojournalists in the Vietnam War, a collaboration with Chris Noth based on the book Requiem. He also wrote a script about the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War, The Choisin Few for Mark Cuban’s 2929 Entertainment, and The Iron Horsemen, a motorcycle feature.
He was going to direct an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel Without Remorse with Gary Sinise and Laurence Fishburne, but the project folded in 1995 two weeks before shooting was to commence due to the financial collapse of Savoy Pictures.
When Steven Spielberg asked him to punch up the screenplay for Saving Private Ryan (1998), Milius suggested the Normandy cemetery bookends where Ryan, now an elderly hero of World War II, in a moment of survivor guilt, asks his wife “Did I live a good life?”[.
Sergio Leone courted him to write Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Milius, a fan of his, was enthusiastic about the idea; but Milius was working on The Wind and the Lion (1975) and the script for Apocalypse Now (1979), and could not commit to the project.
In 1986 it was reported that he was writing the script for Fatal Beauty (1987) which he hoped to direct with Cher the film was made by Tom Holland starring Whoopi Goldberg.
For years Milius was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association, where he was a leader (with Charlton Heston) in resisting a takeover attempt by advocates of the so-called Militia Movement.
He was instrumental during the startup of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) organization: it was his idea to use the octagon-shaped cage, and his association with UFC helped provide interest and investors to the startup UFC.
He worked on a script called Bad Iron, a biker movie written by Kent Anderson, which he intended to produce.
There was some talk in the 1980s that he would direct a movie for HBO, Capone, but it was not made.
His old agent, Mike Medavoy, helped establish Orion Pictures in 1978 and one of their first movies was going to be East of Suez, written and directed by Milius. It was not made.
In the early 2000s he worked on King Conan: Crown of Iron (2001-02), a sequel to Conan the Barbarian (1982).
He wrote Harlot’s Ghost, for Francis Ford Coppola based on a novel by Norman Mailer; Milius described it as “a cross between The Godfather (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979). It’s about families and duplicity and danger, but this time provoked by the government.”.
He developed Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) (2003), a biker film starring Paul Levesque and wrote a pilot for a TV show for UPN, Delta, about a military special ops team that takes on terrorists. Neither of these were made.
In 2000 Milius was hired to work as a creative consultant with the Institute for Creative Technologies to pre-visualize the challenges to peace that America will face and the advanced virtual reality technologies necessary to train U.S. troops for the future. “Through his enormous body of work, John has shown a deep understanding of the human condition and the ways that conflict can be resolved,” said ICT executive director Richard Lindheim. “Furthermore our efforts will benefit greatly from his vision of the world in the near future, and the techniques and procedures that will be needed to maintain security.”.
He was going to direct a film about Alexander the Great starring Jean-Claude Van Damme but that was put on hold when a mini series on the same topic was made by Italian TV.
In 1993 he replaced Andrey Konchalovskiy as director on The Northmen for Morgan Creek Productions, about an English monk who gets captured by a band of Vikings. “This was inevitable,” Milius said of his directing a Viking film. “I’ve been a practicing pagan for a long time. Conan the Barbarian (1982) was really a Viking movie but it was disguised.” However, financing fell through.
He was a passionate surfer for much of his life but gave it up when he turned fifty.
He planned to make a biopic of Senator Joseph McCarthy entitled The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, but it was never made.
Warner Bros wanted him to update Dirty Harry (1971) and he wanted them to fund a version of The Iliad; there was also talk he would make The Alamo for HBO.
Personal Quotes (21)
[on being rejected for military service due to asthma]: “I’m a very efficient director - it’s my training in military tactics. I’ve trained my whole life to be a general but I never could. So I became the next best thing, a movie director.”
[on the violence in Conan the Barbarian (1982) being rather essential]: “It’s not that violent, although I was happy not to get an X rating. But if you said ‘Conan the Barbarian’ was rated PG, people would feel cheated. We weren’t making ‘Conan’s Divorce’, you know.”
I love the bomb. It’s sort of a religious totem to me. Like the plague in the Middle Ages, it’s the hand of God coming out indiscriminantly to snatch you.
If there hadn’t been an Arnold around for Conan, we would have had to create him". -Muscle & Fitness magazine, July 1982
I try to maintain a certain innocence toward my material. I like to say that I do what I do because I like it and that it’s not preachy. When I try to put my finger on what I have to say, it’s very vague. It’s just an attitude. As Herman Melville put it in “Moby Dick”: ‘a free and easy desperado geniality.’ That’s my attitude. Melville was talking about men rowing into the mouth of a whale with their backs to it. I suppose that’s what life is like.
I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other night, and I was horrified. I would have Rush Limbaugh drawn and quartered. He was sticking up for these Wall Street pigs. There should be public show trials, mass denunciations and executions.
[on Mexican drug traffickers] We need to go down there, kill them all, flatten the place with bulldozers so when you wake up in the morning, there’s nothing there. I do believe if you have a military, you use it.
[on the “Do I feel lucky?” speech in Dirty Harry (1971)] I have a .44 Magnum, I love the .44 Magnum, in fact I still have the .44 Magnum that inspired that that line. The Second Amendment becomes more important every day.
I’ve led a whole life behind enemy lines. I’ve been the victim of so much persecution. I’m the barbarian of Hollywood.
Everything has style, everything’s a bit larger than life and done with mischief. That’s the way Conan is.
[on Conan the Barbarian (1982)] A feverish dream on acid.
You know, in fact, I am not a fascist. I am a total man of the people. They are the fascists [Hollywood critics]. They’re creating the fascist society. I am much closer to a Maoist. However, I am a Zen anarchist. --In an interview with Ken Plume on ign.com
Luxuries and comforts are evil for humans.
[1982 interview] I love Apocalypse Now (1979)… That one movie justifies my career. I feel I really did something worthwhile by writing it. Even though I share credit (with Coppola) and I didn’t direct it, it’s a real piece of me.
[1982 interview] Whatever I say sounds okay when I say it, but when it’s printed, it’s awful. I end up being this terrible guy that has guns and likes to shoot hippies. They always take the humor out of what I say. ‘Milius in Jack Boots and Leather Coat Says Facism Is On the Rise!’, that kind of thing, or ‘Para-Military Group Led By Director!’
[1982 interview] I will always be disliked by the Eastern critical establishment,
[In a 1982 interview] It’s important to go out and do something in your life, to do something with tremendous commitment and dedication. Maybe put your life on he line to do it. It’s important. It makes you a bigger person. We’ve gotten away from this. The pursuit of excellence - that’s really one of the values I try to get into all the movies I do… It’s all summed up so well in a surfer term - 'GGo for it!"
I consider The Wind and the Lion (1975) my first real movie. I approached it as a David Lean film, to do it in that style, a large epic canvas, to see id I could pull off great movements of troops. The story is even written that way. Two guys, the Rasuli and Teddy Roosevelt, yelling at each other across oceans.
[on Dillinger (1973)] I got very expensive as a writer, so I was able to make a deal with AIP, who’d have never been able to buy one of my scripts. I said I’ll write whatever you want if I can direct it. I’d have paid them to direct. I looked at the gangsters of the time, and the one that had the most appeal was Dillinger. It was a subject I never would have chosen myself, but it allowed me to show how good I could do a gunfight, make the stuff cut together, make the story hold up, and make the actors act… I like it (the violence) because it’s real. There are consequences in “Dillinger.” You rob a bank, people are going to start shooting, and people are going to get hurt and shot. They run over a woman leaving the bank because that’s what they did. They wee desperate. But you don’t dwell on it. You don’t dwell on the bullet hole and blood pulsing out.
A lot happens in old movies. Ideas were communicated. Ford’s The Searchers (1956), for example. Sure, it’s a story about a guy searching for his niece, but it’s also a movie about the family. It’s a movie about pioneering and what it is to be a pioneer, what it is to put yourself out on a limb. It’s a movie about doing your job.
[on Francis Ford Coppola] Francis is the best of us all. He has the most talent and the most daring. There are a lot of faults in Francis, but I think he’s the leader.