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Tango & Cash

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Tango & Cash

-Made in 1989 by Andrei Konchalovsky
-Stars Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell as 2 rival LAPD Narcotics detectives who are framed for murder and have to work together to clear their names

Did You Know?
-When Tango and Cash escape the prison, Cash turns to Tango and asks him if "stopped for coffee and a danish". Tango says "I hate Danish" as a sort of in-joke referring to the recent divorce from Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen
-When Brion James was cast in the role, it was only meant to be a small role with a few lines. But it was Jame's idea to give the character Requin a Cockney(accent used in and around London, England) accent to make him stand out more.
-The glasses Stallone wears in the movie are not fakes but really his own glasses. If you look closely, the glasses indicate he's near sighted in one eye.



Plot
-The film starts out as Det. Ray Tango(Sylvester Stallone) is driving a late model Cadillac convertible in pursuit of a tanker truck transporting cocaine. He cleverly stops in front of the truck and when L.A County authorities find only gas in the tank, Tango shoots it and cocaine comes pouring out. Elsewhere, Gabriel Cash(Kurt Russell) arrives at his apartment driving an old Corvette. His style, compared to Tango's 3 piece suits and neatly combed hair is considered casual. Cash wears a t-shirt, his hair is long and shaggy, and a waist length jacket. When he enters his apartment, he finds an intruder and is shot, but a bulletproof vest is protecting him. At the police station, Cash forces the shooter to tell him about a deal scheduled to take place later that night.




-However, the "deal" is really a set up by Yves Perret(Jack Palance) to frame Tango and Cash for murder. The 2 cops go to an empty building, preceded by a man named Requin(Brion James), Perret's henchman. After being startled by each other's presence, they find a dead man with audio equipment hidden in his clothes, and suddenly a team of FBI agents swarm in. Agent Wyler finds Cash's pistol on the floor and arrests both of the detectives









-At their trial, the detectives are incriminated by an audio tape, secretly given to Wyler by Requin and verified in court by an audio expert, which appears to reveal them shooting the FBI agent after talking a drug buy. They plead no contest and are sent to a minimum security prison but instead are taken to a maximum security prison to be housed with many of the people they put away.
-Once in prison, Tango and Cash are roused from their bunks and tortured by electrocution by a gang of prisoners until Matt Sokowski, the assistant warden and Cash's former C.O rescues them. Sokowski suggests they escape and provides them with a plan, but Tango refuses to go along with it. When Cash tries to escape, he finds Sokowski murdered and gets attacked by prisoners. Tango rescues him and the 2 of them escape. Once outside the walls of the prison, Tango tells Cash that if he needs to get in touch with him, to go to a dance club called Cleopatra's and asked for a woman named Katherine. Then they split up.
-The detectives then visit witnesses who framed them in court. Wyler admits to Tango that Requin was in charge of the set up, and Cash finds Katherine at the Cleopatra club. She helps Cash escape the club by dressing him up as a woman. Later that night, Cash learns that Katherine is Tango's sister. As he arrives home, he finds them in a compromising position, she was giving Cash a massage (but from Tango's point of view and hearing, it sounded and looked like the 2 were having sex.) They met at Katherine's house, and they are met by Tango's commanding officer Schroeder, who gives them Requin's address and tells them that they have 24 hours to find out who Requin works for. Tango and Cash apprehend Requin and trick him into telling them Perret's name. Armed with a high tech vehicle, loaned to them by Cash's weapons expert friend Owen, they drive to Perret's HQ, crashing through the fence, destroying a fleet of armed trucks and they break into the building, killing several guards





-At this point, Perret, who kidnapped Katherine, starts a timer that will trigger the building's automatic self destruct. After killing Perret's core security, Tango and Cash are confronted by Requin, who is holding Katherine at knife point, but throws her aside to fight the 2 detectives hand-to-hand. They both defeat him and when Perret appears holding a gun to Katherine's head, they kill him and leave the building with Katherine just before the building detonates. Afterward, Cash jokes about his desire to date Katherine. The film ends with a newspaper headline celebrating their clearance



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Scarface(1983)

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Scarface

-1983 American cult hit crime drama
-Directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Martin Bregman
-Starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer.
-Contemporary remake of the 1932 movie of the same name

From the Scarface: The World is Yours video game

-Known for it's graphic violence and language.
-Widely criticized by the Cuban community of Miami, basically they said the movie made it look like all Cubans were associated with drug traffickers and criminals.
-This movie has been made a particularly special icon in the hip hop community, inspiring posters, clothes, and other references. The grainy black and white poster is known worldwide

Did You Know?
-The character Tony Montana was named after Oliver Stone's favorite football player joe Montana
-In the final shootout scene, Tony grabs the gun by the barrel. Even though blanks were used, Al Pacino badly burned his hand and production was cut a few weeks to allow Pacino's hand to recover
-The f word is used 226 times
-While writing this movie, Oliver Stone fought cocaine addiction
-Out of all the cast members, Steven Bauer is the only real Cuban born cast member along with Angel Salazar, who played Chi-Chi. Other than that, the majority of the cast is Italian-American, such as Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio and Robert Loggia. Salazar and Bauer were there to help coach on Cuban culture and attitudes

-Miriam Colon, who played Tony's mother, is only 4 years older than Al Pacino
-The gun Tony uses in the end is an M16 with an M203 grenade launcher beneath the barrel
Plot
-In 1980, Tony Montana(Al Pacino), a Cuban refugee, arrives in Miami, Florida during the Mariel Harbor boatlift. He and best friend Manny Ribera(Steven Bauer), along with friends/associates Angel(Pepe Serna) and Chi-Chi(Angel Salazar) are sent to a refugee camp. But Manny manages to make a deal with a wealthy drug dealer named Frank Lopez(Robert Loggia) to obtain green cards in return for killing a former Cuban government employee who murdered Lopez's brother long ago. Following the murder and their release, they agree to take a job for Frank's henchman Omar Suarez(F. Murray Abraham) to buy cocaine from Columbian dealers. The deal goes bad, with the Columbians dismembering Angel in the bathroom of a motel with a chainsaw. Before they can do the same to Tony, Manny and Chi-Chi storm the apartment and kill the Columbians. Suspicious of a set up, their trust for Omar goes down. Tony and Manny take the money and cocaine to Frank personally. Frank likes their style and hires Tony and Manny to work for him. This is how Tony meets and develops a crush on Frank's girlfriend, Elvira Hancock(Michelle Pfeiffer)
-Months later, Tony visits his mother, Georgina(Miriam Colon) and his younger sister, Gina(Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio), of whom he's fiercely protective. Gina is excited to see him again, but his mother suspects him of a life of crime and throws him out. Manny is waiting in a car outside, and he comments to Tony about Gina being beautiful and Tony angrily warns him to stay away from her.
-Frank sends Tony and Omar to Bolivia to make a deal with a cocaine kingpin named Alejandro Sosa(Paul Shenar). The tension between Tony and Omar comes to a head when Tony begins to make unauthorized deals on behalf of Frank. Omar agrees to head back to talk to Frank personally, while Tony stays with Sosa. Afterward, Sosa tells Tony that Omar is a police informant and has Tony witness Omar being pushed and hanged from a helicopter. Tony states that ne neve liked or trusted Omar, but vouches for Frank. Sosa and Tony part ways with a mutual understanding. But Sosa gives him a warning: Tony is to never betray him. After returning to Miami, Frank is angry with Omar's demise and Tony's deal, which cause the end of their business relationship. Tony starts some of his own operations and he starts to pursue Elvira more, eventually asking her to marry him
-One night, at a local nightclub, Tony is met by Miami detective Mel Bernstein(Harris Yulin), who is corrupt, and asks Tony to "tax" on his transactions in return for police protection. Tony sees Elvira and sits with her to talk about his proposal, but Frank arrives and demands that Tony leave. Tony insults Frank instead, causing Frank to leave with Elvira. Tony sees his younger sister Gina at the Babylon Club with a strange man, who just so happens to be a drug dealer. He sees them disappear and he follows them to the men's room where Tony finds the man giving Gina cocaine. He throws the man out of the bathroom and slaps Gina after she confronts him. Manny, being the sympathetic one, comforts Gina and takes her home. Gina reveals her crush to Manny, but he says he would basically get into trouble if he started dating her, fearing what tony would do if he caught them together. Back at the club, Tony is attacked and wounded by 2 gunmen, but he escapes, killing them. Suspicious of Frank sending Bernstein and the hitmen, Tony and Manny confront Frank at his office, finding him with Bernstein. With the help of of one of his associates, Tony exposes Frank as the person behind the failed hit. Frank begs for his life before Manny puts 2 rounds in him. Tony then shoots Bernstein. Having power now, Tony takes over what Frank had, and marries Elvira. Sosa then becomes Tony's supplier.
-Over time, problems begin to develop. Tony and Elvira become addicted to cocaine, and drift apart, Tony becomes increasingly paranoid that people are watching him and this is driving him and friend Manny apart. Tony is eventually charged with money laundering and tax evasion after police stage a sting operation. Tony is arrested and makes bail, but his lawyer explains that there will be a huge fine and up to 3 years in prison. Sosa flies tony to Columbia to get him a way out. In exchange for the use of Sosa's government connections to keep him out of jail, Tony must fly to New York with Sosa's henchman Alberto(Mark Margolis) to help kill a Bolivian journalist intending on exposing Sosa during a speech to the United Nations. During dinner at a fancy restaurant, a depressed and drunk Tony and stoned Elvira fight. While Tony is in New York, an unhappy Manny is asked to stay behind and run things. Tony accuses Elvira of being a junkie, whom he could never have kids with, which ends in a fight, with her announcing she is leaving him


-Tony arrives in New York with Chi-Chi, Ernie and Alberto. They sit outside the hotel where the journalist is staying and Alberto wires the man's car with a bomb. The next morning, upon seeing the journalist in his car with his family, Tony tries to call it off, at the sake of the wife and kids. Alberto states that Sosa's explicit rules are to tail the journalist and blow up his car in front of the United Nations building. Before Alberto hits the button to detonate the bomb, Tony shoots him in the head. Furious, Sosa calls Tony later that night and he reminds Tony of their first conversation, where he warned Tony to never betray him.


-Then Tony sets out to find Gina. Tony's mother tells him that Gina is now at an address in Coconut Grove. Tony finds there is a mansion at this address and when he rings the doorbell, Manny answers it. He finds Gina coming out of an upstairs bedroom and he immediately kills Manny in a fit of rage; unfortunately Gina has planned to tell Tony and surprise him with the announcement of their marriage. Tony and his men bring a nerve racked Gina back to his mansion. As Tony snorts a pile of coke, Sosa's men are busy surrounding the compound. They are heavily armed, and are quietly killing all guards on the premises. At this point, a heavily drugged Gina enters Tony's office with nothing but a robe on, and accuses Tony of wanting her for himself, before shooting him in the leg. One of Sosa's men busts in and opens fire on Gina. Tony kills the man and upon seeing Gina's corpse, falls in to heavy grief. Chi-Chi is then killed when Tony fails to open the door despite his pleas.


-Finally in a fit of cocaine controlled rage. he makes his last stand, using an M16 armed with an uner barrel M203 grenade launcher, and extended magazines, opens fire, saying the famous line "Say hello to my little friend!". Tony takes hit after hit, the only thing keeping him alive is the cocaine. But he takes one shot to the heart from a shotgun blast from the back by one of Sosa's hitmen, known simply as The Skull. tony falls into the fountain below in a splash of blood and water, near a statue that says "The World is Yours."


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Last Movie I Watched

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The last movie I remember watching was Monty Python's Life of Brian. Now I know why my dad would never let us watch it. He thought it was irreverant, and also not to mention, it's not for kids, considerign tehre is full frontal nudity in some scenes, alot of cussing, including the word "bloody", which is British slang for the f word, and they also use alot of British slang no one knows what means, but me however, I know the translations of the British slang they use in those movies.


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Famous Kids

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This post is all about famous kids.

Georgia May Jagger
-Model
-Parents: former model Jerry Hall and Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger

Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger
-Model(former), jewelry designer, socialite
-Parents: Bianca Macias-Jagger and Mick Jagger
Elizabeth Scarlet Jagger
-British-American model and actress, half sister to Jade Jagger
-Parents: former model Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger
Dhani Harrison
-Musician, formed a band called thenewno2. Made his debut after finishing his father's album, Brainwashed in 2006 after his father's death in 2001.
-Parents: former Beatle George Harrison and Olivia Trinidad-Arias Harrison
Julian Lennon
-British musician, songwriter, actor, photographer
-Parents: former Beatle John Lennon and Cynthia Powell-Lennon
Sean Lennon
-Younger half brother to Julian Lennon, godfather is Sir Elton John
-American singer/songwriter, actor, musician, guitarist
-Parents: former Beatle John Lennon and Japanese-born artist Yoko Ono
Alexandra Richards
-Model, artist and DJ in New York
-Parents: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and model Patti Hansen
Stella McCartney
-Fashion designer
-Parents: former Beatle Paul McCartney and American photographer Linda Eastman-McCartney
Zak Starkey
-Drummer for The Who
-Parents: Beatles drummer Richard "Ringo" Starkey and Maureen Cox
Mariska Hargitay
-American actress
-Parents: Hungarian immgrant Mickey Hargitay and American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield
Jaden Smith
-Child actor, rapper, songwriter, dancer
-Parents: actor Will Smith and actress Jada-Pinkett Smith
Willow Smith
-Child musician and actress
-Parents: Will Smith and Jada-Pinkett Smith
Liv Tyler
-American actress
-Parents: Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and former model Bebe Buell
Mia Tyler
-A plus size model for Lane Bryant, also an actress, appeared in Rush Hour 3 as Marsha
-Parents: Steven Tyler and groupie Cyrinda Foxe
Kelly Osbourne
-English TV personality, judge, actress, fashion designer and actress
-Parents: Sharon Arden-Osbourne and Black Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne

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Gary Oldman

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Gary Oldman


Name: Gary Leonard Oldman
DOB: March 21, 1958
Where: New Cross, London, England
Occupation: Actor, filmmaker, musician
Years Active: 1979-present

-Is a member of the 1980s Brit Pack of film actors
-Became better known through movies such as Sid and Nancy, in which he played Sid Vicious, the late lead singer of 80s era British punk band The Sex Pistols in 1986


-His Hollywood breakthrough came when he portrayed Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK(1991) and the title character of Dracula(1992).
Playing Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK
 Dracula




-In various movies, he has played the antagonist or bad guy. These movies include True Romance(1993), Leon(1994, or better known as The Professional), The Fifth Element(1997), Air Force One(1997, where he played a Russian mercenary), The Contender(2000)

Air Force One



Leon(The Professional)






-He has also played historical figures, such as Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved(1994)
-Most recently, he has become best known for playing the role of escaped criminal Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series of movies, and in the movies, it reveals that Sirius Black is Harry's godfather. And also he plays Commissioner Gordon in the Batman movies.

Batman series















Harry Potter

















-Most recently, he has starred in the British spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, playing George Smiley, a British intelligence officer with M16, or the British counterpart of the American CIA.



Early Life
-Son of Kathleen(nee Cheriton), a housewife, and Leonard Bertram Oldman, a former sailor who worked as a welder.
















-Has a sister who is also an actress, Laila Morse. Oldman has often said his father was an abusive alcoholic who left the family when he was 7.

















-Was an accomplished singer and piano player as a kid, but gave it up to pursue acting
-His acting inspiration was Malcolm McDowell's performance in the 1970 film Raging Moon

Career
-In 1986, he won the chance to play Sid Vicious, the ill-fated bassist for late 70s British punk band The Sex Pistols in the movie Sid and Nancy. In the movie he played the title role of Sid, which told the life of him and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

-By the early 1990s, Oldman and other British actors were becoming well known in Hollywood, along with other actors such as Tim Roth, Bruce Payne, Colin Firth, Paul McGann, who were dubbed "The Brit Pack".

-In 1991, Oldman started a significant point in his career. He was to play Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of JFK in Oliver Stone's JFK.

-The following year, he was asked to play the title role in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula.

-Later on, he went on to play other roles; violent pimp Drexel Spivey in True Romance(1993), a sadistic prison warden in Murder in the First(1995), a futuristic business tyrant in The Fifth Element(1997)

-In 1994, he played corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield in Leon, which is better known as The Professional.

-In 1997, he starred in Air Force One, playing a Russian mercenary named Ivan Korshunov. He also played another historical figure, Pontius Pilate in Jesus(1999).

-In the 2003 movie Tiptoes, he played a character who suffered from dwarfism, which some said did very poorly at the theatres. This movie, in my opinion, was very good. Don't listen to critics!!!

-In 2004, he returned to prominence, playing a role in the Harry Potter movies. He was to play Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, who also, coincidentally, was an escaped criminal from the magical prison Azkaban. Him and star Daniel Radcliffe became very close during the making of the movie. Also in the movie Kung Fu Panda 2, he voiced the character Lord Shen.

-Most recently, he starred in the British spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, where he played George Smiley, who was an M16 officer working for British intelligence.

-Also, Daniel Radcliffe looks up to Oldman as an inspiration for acting

Personal Life
-Born and raised in England most of his life, moved to the US in the 1990s
-Keeps his personal life intensely private
-On Dec. 31, 2008, he married singer Alexandra Edenborough in Santa Barbara, California, in a private, formal ceremony.

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