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Man on Fire
2004 · Film · 146 min
Directed by Tony Scott
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
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Reminds me of how the captions were done in Tony Scott's Man on Fire (2004). It's a pretty great movie too.
> For instance, Taken gets 59% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a hugely important and impactful film. It basically spawned/revived a whole subgenre of action film.
A fair number of critics looked down on that film because it is casually chauvinistic, nasty and bigoted. (I absolutely loathe it. Want to see how that film could have been? Watch Man On Fire.)
I don't know whether you can support your "politically desirable" assertion with meaningful data -- not to say that you might not be right, but more to say that I don't know what shape that data would have.
But I'd be interested to hear a couple of examples anyway.
I know a few people who like doing that when they decide they don't like a movie they're watching but still want to finish it. I've watched Man on Fire this way and found it very comedic at 1.75x speed.
Denzel Washington's Man on Fire is in the same arena of films (obviously action-sensationalized, however still good for what it is):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Fire_(2004_film)
> I believe Job says (amongst other things), "Life isn't fair. Good things happen to the bad guys. Bad things happen to the good guys. Accept that in the knowledge that God will make it right in the end."
Sister Anna: Do you ever see the Hand of God in what you do?
Creasy: No, not for a long time.
Sister Anna: The Bible says, "Do not be over come with evil, but overcome...?
Creasy: But overcome evil with good."
Creasy: [in spanish] That's Romans Chapter 12 Verse 21.
Creasy: I am the sheep that got lost, Madre.
-- Man on Fire (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328107/