Your Friday Fantasy -- Gerard Butler Chained Down in 'Law Abiding Citizen'
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Here's something for the girls to end their week on. Who doesn't want Gerard Butler chained up in your house -- and by the neck, no less. When I look at it, I like to imagine he's snarling "I am a slave! What possible difference can I make?" Considering the plot of Law Abiding Citizen is something akin to that of Gladiator (a vigilante who is holding all of Philadelphia hostage from his jail cell), I'm not entirely far off.
Despite my fondness for Bud White and Harry Callahan, I'm not entirely up on my prison and penal code ... do they actually chain prisoners in old timey neck manacles like that in any American cities? That seems like something you'd see in Pirates of the Caribbean, not a serious, modern legal / vigilante thriller.
Pirate chains aside, it will be enjoyable to see Butler in something manly and gruff again. The film originally called for him to be the assistant D.A. and Jamie Foxx to play the vigilante bent on avenging his family, but they reversed roles just before filming began. I think that was a good choice for both actors ... especially if they homage Escape From Alcatraz at all. And I think you know which scenes I mean, ladies.
[Thanks to the Gerard Butler Gals for sending this!]
Despite my fondness for Bud White and Harry Callahan, I'm not entirely up on my prison and penal code ... do they actually chain prisoners in old timey neck manacles like that in any American cities? That seems like something you'd see in Pirates of the Caribbean, not a serious, modern legal / vigilante thriller.
Pirate chains aside, it will be enjoyable to see Butler in something manly and gruff again. The film originally called for him to be the assistant D.A. and Jamie Foxx to play the vigilante bent on avenging his family, but they reversed roles just before filming began. I think that was a good choice for both actors ... especially if they homage Escape From Alcatraz at all. And I think you know which scenes I mean, ladies.
[Thanks to the Gerard Butler Gals for sending this!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-01-2009 @ 12:57PM
NP said...
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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5-01-2009 @ 1:39PM
weetiger said...
"Despite my fondness for Bud White and Harry Callahan..."
I knew there was a reason I enjoyed your posts (aside from the shared affinity for Mr. Butler LOL)
But I digress. I can't print exactly what that pic says to me (and it is speaking...trust me) but I can tell you the way the director has described the movie "7 meets Silence of the Lambs". This may or may not explain the shackles, (could be just a publicity still-but who's complaining?)
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5-01-2009 @ 2:57PM
Miss A said...
Escape "from" Alcatraz?
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5-01-2009 @ 3:06PM
how odd said...
Whaaat? If this is anything other than a promo still then it sure is peculiar. To me, the funniest part of the whole thing is that he's just SO NOT chain-able. The guy is currently in India running roughshod over Indian women. I mean it's as though he's hit everything faintly female in the western world, no one is left here. He had to spend time on another continent. Geeze, what a kick in the pants he is.
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5-03-2009 @ 1:28AM
bronny said...
you are all soooo gullable and you believe everything you read.
Get a life people and let Gerry live his.
5-04-2009 @ 10:02AM
M. L. Kiner said...
"The Hong Kong Connection" is a legal thriller about a gutsy female attorney who takes on high ranking International officials. It's a taut, rollercoaster of a ride from New York to Palm Beach to Washington D.C. to Hong Kong. The plot is expertly woven, the characters persuasive, and the dialogue snappy and spot on.
www.StrategicBookPublishing.com/TheHongKongConnection.html
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