A DEI hire? Oh, wait…

Hmmm… not that high, IMHO.

Jim pursing his lips in the mirror while previewing an eventually-rejected look for Blues Brothers 2000. (“We’re 106 miles to Amarillo. We’ve got a time machine, a six-pack of Australian lager, it’s bright and I’m wearing sunglasses… Hit it.”)

Yes, there’s a gun but its presence is so feeble: that thing will obviously slide off the dashboard the moment there’s any action, and the goodie and the baddie will have to spend the next three minutes cracking their heads together while rummaging under the seats through dropped change, old fast food wrappers and a highway map of Oklahoma from 1982 before they find the damned thing!

There were other posters/covers I saw that were more actiony: explosions, lightning bolts, a gun actually being held and used. And in a tribute to Basil Exposition, clocks. “You know, cuz it’s timey-wimey.”

• https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=retroactive+1997+poster

Of those alternates, I’d pick #2 as top for a combo of stylistic and actiony reasons.

#1 has a consistent and menacing look and colour scheme, but a distinct lack of shooty or blow-uppy stuff.

#3 has got two guns in use and the cheesy-but-beloved classic of a background explosion, but seems like two posters mashed together; I’d have gone with the top half.

#4 has got action appeal and the visual consistency #3 lacks, but features (now I’ve seen the film) a very minor character.

I really have no idea WTF is going on in the middle of #5, and they seem to have just picked some stock photo of a random model driving a random model of car, not the vintage Caddy featured in the film.

#6 has lightning! And more lightning! And Xzibit saying “Yo dawg, I heard you like lightning so I put lightning in your lightning!” And multiple fires and multiple guns. My choice if I was going for maximum straight-to-video action cheesiness.

But I went with the one in OP because:

• it seemed to be the predominant design
• a high resolution version was available
• it’s in English :)

The devil is in the details, but the general idea could be useful.

“People might think it’s a rom com.”

That. Sounds. AWESOME!

And for sh*ts and giggles, have another version where ‘Oldman as Gordon’ is allied with ‘Reno as Léon’, but ‘Oldman as Stansfield’ is allied with ‘Reno as Godefroy’ from Les Visiteurs.

I don’t think their blog is about ghosts, I think their blog is created with Ghost, not WordPress

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(blogging_platform)

New game:

“AI or Putin? You decide!”

They’ve been more careful than Kanye.

Ye was briefly able to upload the song to the popular music streaming services Spotify and SoundCloud.

Isn’t SoundCloud in Germany? [Checks Wikipedia] Yes, it is.

Isn’t promotion of Hitler and Nazism in Germany a serious crime? [Checks Qwant] Yes, it is.

E.g.

Imprisonment, not exceeding five years, or a fine, will be the punishment for whoever, in public or in an assembly, approves, denies or minimizes an act described in § 220a(1) [i.e., genocide] committed under National Socialism, in a manner which is liable to disturb the public peace.

EXTRADITE KANYE!

Meanwhile, on the American side of the border, some brands are proudly advertising their US roots.

Ford last month ran a campaign with the tagline “From America. For America.”

Maybe people could “guerrilla advertise”: for those US brands kowtowing to MAGA in the US, copy & paste their US advertising over their adverts elsewhere in the world (hoardings, bus shelters, public transport etc), driving home to people where these brands are really from.

E.g. Cover up their overseas “disguise” adverts

• “We’re so local and lovely!”

with their US MAGA adverts

• “America - FUCK YEAH!” (in Ford’s case “From America. For America.”)

I mean, obviously, with permission of the owners/operators of said advertising locations, I wouldn’t be suggesting vandalism…

I’d never heard of it. Seems interesting and appropriate.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_96

Eventually, a Berlin-style wall, with ICE agents gunning down any citizens disloyal enough to try to escape to Canada.

Could be short for… Regina.

The one I could see on Dailymotion didn’t have anything explicit, except perhaps the ¿erotic? insertion of a gun barrel into a woman’s mouth.

• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16tned

For those of us who can’t or won’t log into YouTube, I found a trailer on DailyMotion:

• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16tned

And I mirrored it on PeerTube:

• https://peertube.wtf/w/6JPD1RGRbYogx8QzztWtxu

And getting rid of regressive VAT for progressive income tax would probably be a vote winner, too.

I’ve gotta see that movie, sounds great.

I don’t think there’s an acted movie, but documentaries, TV shows etc. And he has a podcast.

• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6522386/ (Click “Self”)
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1nbl
• https://open.spotify.com/show/2JlGAHkwKjJYjN3iR8IL0U
• https://peertube.wtf/search/lazy-load-video;url=https:%2F%2Fjetstream.watch%2Fvideos%2Fwatch%2Fb02e8607-19ef-415d-b3b5-b2119c0b13c0

Reminds me of Daryl Davis.

In 1983, he was playing country western music in a “white” bar in Frederick, Maryland, when a patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had “heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis”. Davis explained to the man that “Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players and he’s a friend of mine”. The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.

A few years later, Davis decided that he wanted to interview Klan members and write a book on the subject, to answer a “question in my head from the age of 10: ‘Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?’ That question had never been answered from my youth”.

Davis eventually went on to befriend over twenty members of the KKK, and claims to have been directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
• https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes