Mga app ng Google
Pangunahing menu

Post a Comment On: Steve Sailer: iSteve

Untitled

15 Comments -

1 – 15 of 15
Blogger Omar said...

I've never seen The Killer but that scene Hunter talks about in the church was clearly replicated exactly in Face/Off, complete with doves and double guns.

4/20/07, 3:08 AM

Blogger Omar said...

Woo is clearly obsessed with holding two guns, apparently he got the idea from the final scene in Butch Cassidy.

I'm sure someone of Cho's temperament was also really into The Matrix, where characters regularly held double guns as well. The Seraph, played by the Asian Collin Chou, enters the Merovingian's lair and shoots up the place with double guns. Check it out

4/20/07, 3:26 AM

Blogger Omar said...

In fact the more I think about it he more I realise - double guns are everywhere! Not only in Woo movies and The Matrix, but in rap videos, video games (the hold two guns at once option is now a staple of most action games), cowboy movies.

Remember playing cowboys as a child? The cowboy belt would always contain two guns, one on either side.

4/20/07, 3:48 AM

Anonymous Fleming Paulsen said...

Woo-hoo, Steve got another mention in the MSM.

4/20/07, 6:05 AM

Anonymous Slats said...

Oh, I read the WP link. Steve doesn't rate a mention. Life is so unfair.

4/20/07, 6:11 AM

Blogger blogsearch.sg said...

A blog directory listing on American Gunfight Add your blog site to the collection.

4/20/07, 6:47 AM

Anonymous Bruce Wayne said...

I had already considered he possible influence of Woo's films but think Oldboy is likely much more relevant for two reasons. 1) The age of the killer. Woo's better films were made a decade and a half ago and Cho's familiarity w/ them would be through video only and likely less visceral given that more recent films w/ ultra-violence are worse than what Woo did. 2) Woo's films like Hard Bolied and THe Killer clearly frame the violence in a moral universe, Woo lacks the nihilism of many other depictors of violence, like in the Saw movie series or (apparently) many popular South Korean films.

4/20/07, 7:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nah, Steve's intuition is more correct. "Oldboy" all the way. Double guns have been Hollywood standard for over a decade, but only "Oldboy" has featured a hammer-wielding (Korean) psycho.

4/20/07, 7:30 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Sailer has a non-sexual crush on Stephen Hunter.

4/20/07, 9:31 AM

Anonymous SFG said...

There was also a picture of him looking rather Lara Croft-ish, which is kind of funny when you think about it.

I think we can just call it 'violent movies', chalk the Korean influence up to the fact that, being Korean, he saw a few more Korean movies than average in addition to all the American ones, and call it a day.

4/20/07, 3:32 PM

Anonymous Justin said...

What sfg said. There was just a really violent cultural melange in Cho's head, that happened to involve one more Korean movie than what most people have seen (most people have seen 0, I'm guessing) and he didn't have any way to ignore any of it, being rather mental and all.

4/20/07, 6:45 PM

Anonymous Mills said...

Garbage in, garbage out.

4/21/07, 4:56 AM

Anonymous David Davenport said...

I think we can just call it 'violent movies', chalk the Korean influence up to the fact that, being Korean, he saw a few more Korean movies than average in addition to all the American ones, and call it a day.

Not even Korean-American. No Anglicizing of his first name, no application for American citizenship. Another case of the melting pot not melting.

4/22/07, 1:36 PM

Anonymous SFG said...

Most spree killers are white. There are a thousand cases of insufficient assimilation and they have been well documented on this blog, but this ain't one of them.

4/23/07, 8:00 PM

Anonymous joshrandall said...

I dont know,SFG. I googled and at least one researcher says thats a typical load of anti-white male horseshit. Spree killers are NOT disprop. white. I havent gone all Steve Sailer and actually "worked" on this topic,but I think its safe to say that the default position for the idiot-journalist is to bash white men whenever possible;so I am going on record as saying yer wrong! :) Nobody mentions Cho's inability to get laid,BTW. Aint no way an Asian girl is gonna sleep with him,and his efforts to find a "sensitive" white girl to give him pity sex,well sir,that didnt turn out so well,either!

4/25/07, 10:42 AM

Comments are moderated, at whim.
You can use some HTML tags, such as <b>, <i>, <a>

Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author.

You will be asked to sign in after submitting your comment.
OpenID LiveJournal WordPress TypePad AOL