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Evil Gets An Enlarged Vocabulary
by Phoenix L (movies profile)
Jun 12, 2006
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As you can tell by the title I'm being facetious. Whereas the main subject in the flick Jason X was Evil getting an upgrade, the
subject in both the movie and the paperback Omen III ( I've seen
and read both) was the power of Evil no longer being in the hands of a child; but whereas grown monsters are usually more
intimidating than infantile ones the only way I found the mature
Damien Thorne to be the least bit scary was by being so disarm-
ingly charming, charismatic, handsome, innocent appearing, and
intellectual it was scary. I almost peed my pants with laughter
when he used the word PEDANTIC to describe those Christians
( I've sat through hundreds of college lectures and have read
hundreds of novels and I've NEVER ever heard anyone use that
WORD before). I got to admit his vocabulary was so expansive it
was scary, I had to have a dictionary with me throughout the whole movie just to understand what he was talking about. If Ian Fleming secretly wrote this novel he could not have done a better job of creating a classic GENTLEMAN Villain for James Bond. Sure, I found Damien Thorne frightening the same way I
found some college professors, or gurus, or mystics, or anyone
else full of wise sayings that sounded like they were speaking in
riddles and/or contradictions; such as, true evil being as pure as
innocence. Maybe I'm slow, but it took me a while to get what the hell he was trying to say. However, in the traditional sense of monsters being big, bad, and with a vocabulary of two sylla-
bles or less, like the classic, HULK MAD, HULK SMASH; I found
Damien Thorne less threatening than some punk kids I see hanging out on the streets. Monsters like Damien belong in the
world of the educated, not on movie screens where the target audience may be a large unsophisticated populace. |
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