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Sunday, July 17, 2005

I'll Take Edward Norton for Four-Hundred Please, Alex

"He was in this 1998 documentary-style film on neo-nazis in America."
"American History X."
"No."
"I'm sorry... what is American History X?"
"Correct."
"It's a great movie, Alex, you should check it out. It has this great power to impress it's moods on you, like anger, fear, repulsion, meloncholy. It's got all of the great dialogue style that Norton does in Fight Club and 25th Hour with his ranting and anguish, but it's so much darker and twisted and it isn't funny. Edward Norton plays an amazing role as an ex-neo-nazi trying to get his little brother out of the lifestyle that destroyed his own life. Because hate kills, Alex, it really does. It kills all of us."
"Return to your podium please, David."
"I know you need a hug, Alex."

And so as not to break the chain here, and invoke 13 years of bad luck, there's a lot of smoking in that movie and they smoke almost constantly in a relaxed, laid-back nazi way.