Crime and crime again
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
I watched an advanced screening of The Green Hornet at Greenbelt 3 last week. It’s a very entertaining movie — a reinvention of the radio series created by George W. Trendle that starred the late Bruce Lee as the genius sidekick, Kato — that is also surprisingly relevant to our times.
Could it be because nothing much has changed in the world except for the deadly climate changes?
The Green Hornet tells the story of the unwilling heir (Seth Rogen as Britt Reid) of a newspaper magnate (Tom Wilkinson), who finds himself at the helm of his late father’s company. Because there was no love lost between the two, son does not immediately take the responsibility seriously. He would rather play the anti-hero — or, as the movie marketers trumpet, “doing crime to fight crime” or “protecting the law by breaking it.”
For this, he discovers the invaluable talents of his father’s former employee, Kato (now played by Korean star Jay Chou), who turns out to be a genius with technology. He invents and builds advanced gadgets and indestructible cars, which serve as their weapons to fight the bad guys. One night, in the midst of a prank, they stumble upon the possibility of fighting criminals incognito, but when television news paints them as villains as well, the idea for ‘Green Hornet’ is born..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110124com7.html
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