Comments on: Awesome Movie Review: Domino

By: Emaciated

Emaciated — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Will you be making a rare trek to the theater in order to provide us with an awesome movie review of the Sidney Lumet / Vin Diesel picture?

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll try to get out and see it next week, possibly Wednesday. And don’t call it a Sidney Lumet/Vin Diesel picture. It’s a Vin Diesel/Peter Dinklage picture.

By: Emaciated

Emaciated — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll have to admit that I didn’t know who Peter Dinklage was. I checked over at imdb.com at found out that he is that dwarf actor from The Station Agent. His list of in-production films include “The Dwarf” and “Mendel’s Dwarf” which fit with the notion that a dwarf actor will act in a lot of little-people centric movies. The list also includes a film entitled “3/5 of a Man”. I thought “Well, I guess that refers to a dwarf being about 60% as large as the average guy, but it also refers to the pre-civil war constitutional interpretation that slaves were to be counted as 60% of a person for purposes of population based representation. That’s odd. Will Peter Dinklage be wearing blackface?”

I click the link and it turns out that 3/5 of a Man is about the Nat Turner slave revolt, which raises the question of what a white dwarf has to do with a slave revolt? I can only imagine a scene such as:

NAT TURNER: Yeah, if you step up with me you may die. And yeah, if you don’t rise up right here, right now, you’ll sleep safely in your bed tonight. But when you lay in that bed years from now, as your last breath of life slips away, would you trade all the days from now til then for one chance, one chance to be free?

LAMAR: Sure, sure Nat, going is tough right now, but if we’re patient, if we sit tight, we may well receive the right to vote in congressional elections within the next few decades. And isn’t true change only to be brought about through the ballot box, through the consolidation of popular support and the inherent validation conferred via the same, not the instability propelled forth from the barrel of a gun, with such velocity that it be ahead of its time?

NAT TURNER: Well, you just wait for your congressional elections, Lamar, you just wait. Who do you think counts the ballots? Who do you think draws the district boundaries? For god’s sake, when the government proportions congressional representation, do you know to what extent you count? You count as 3/5 of a man! You are not 3/5 of a man! I am not 3/5 of a man! (Cut to white dwarf whittling on nearby porch) That’s 3/5 of a man!

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m far more interested in The Dwarf. Did you check out the description? “Set during the Italian Renaissance, Piccolino the dwarf (Dinklage) commits heinous, vile acts on behalf of his master, a prince.” From the review of the novel on amazon: “Don’t miss this. You will not soon find another like it. The evil in the Dwarf’s nature is in ours, too–is universal.” How can that not be a fantastic movie?

As for the Nat Turner movie, according to IMDb, the sister of the director is an English professor at Rutgers.

By: John

John — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That summary of “The Dwarf” sounds like a brief summary of Book Two of the Song of Ice and Fire.

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve never read the Song of Ice and Fire series, but according to wikipedia, the first novel in the series was written almost fifty years after The Dwarf. But I suppose it’s still noteworthy that a fantasy author ripped off someone other than Tolkien.