Once more into the fray...
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day...
Live and die on this day...
Freezing and alone,
Ottway then curses God and asks for his help with no response.
The Grey (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Grey is a 2012 American Psychological thriller film directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, and Dermot Mulroney. It is based on the short story Ghost Walker by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Carnahan. The story follows a number of oil-men stranded in Alaska after a plane crash, who are forced to survive using little more than their wits, as a pack of gray wolves stalk them.
Plot
John Ottway (Liam Neeson) works in Alaska killing the wolves that threaten an oil drilling team. On his last day on the job, Ottway writes a letter to his wife Ana (Anne Openshaw) that he plans to commit suicide. While holding the barrel of a rifle in his mouth, Ottway hears the howl of a wolf, and pulls the trigger, but the gun doesn't fire. Upon completing the job, the team and Ottway head home on a plane that crashes in a blizzard. Ottway then sees a vision of his wife but awakens to find one of the team, Lewenden (James Badge Dale), mortally wounded. Ottway calms him, letting him know that he is going to die, and then Lewenden dies peacefully.
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REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11TH
Black ribbon
The black ribbon, like similar awareness ribbons, is worn or displayed as a
political statement.
Sign of mourning
Similar to a black armband, the black ribbon is a public display of grief. Individuals or organizations display the ribbon in commemoration of victims after specific incidents. Some examples have included:- 9/11 - This ribbon is a sign of mourning for those killed in the September 11th attack.
- In New Zealand, a black ribbon was worn by family members after the deaths of 29 trapped miners who died in an explosion on November 25, 2010.
- In Poland, a black ribbon was worn by mourners of Polish president Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and 95 other important senior officials who died on April 10, 2010.
- In the United Kingdom after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
- The black ribbon has again made an appearance shortly after category 5 Hurricane Katrina landed along the Gulf Coast of the United States in August 2005.
- The black ribbon was a symbol of popular grief in Spain after the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks. It was worn on clothing and also pinned on the Spanish flag.
- Google displayed a black ribbon as a mark of respect and sympathy for victims of 9/11, the 7 July 2005 London bombings, and victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- After the earthquake on August 15, 2007 in Peru, black ribbons were the icons of all Peruvian television channels for 3 days
- After the death of Heath Ledger in January 2008, Warner Brothers placed a black ribbon on their marketing website for The Dark Knight in his memory.
- The black ribbon has been also used by the journalists in the Philippines to condemn the killings of journalists on the Maguindanao massacre.
- In Northern Ireland, Bloody Sunday 1972 - to remember the murders and attempted murders of civilians at the peak of The Troubles.
- Police officers often wear black ribbons in mourning of fallen officers.
- 20 July 2012: The 12 people killed, out of the 71 shot, at the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.
- Turks use the black ribbon to mourn for the casualties of Turkish soldiers in the Turkey-PKK conflict.
Other meanings
- Melanoma Awareness - To bring awareness to melanoma and worn by people who know someone or are themselves affected by melanoma.
- In Argentina, a black ribbon, sometimes with the national flag's colours in both ends, is used to raise awareness about the victims of subversive terrorism.
- By the Anarchist Black Ribbon Campaign, a free speech campaign started in 1996 inspired by the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign.
- During the 6th International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) the black ribbon was worn worldwide to show support and promote awareness of the Palestinian struggle.
- In India, 2011 to show support to Anna Hazare who was fasting to fight against corruption by government.
Gray ribbon
The grey ribbon, like similar awareness ribbons, is worn or displayed as a political statement.
The ribbon has been used in a variety of manners:
Diabetes awareness
Brain cancer awareness
Asthma awareness
Vote annulation (Mexico)
Mental Health awareness, specifically Borderline Personality Disorder
Support of Secession or in the American South Pro-Southern Nationalism
Zombie Awareness
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Plot
A baby prince is born to Sarabi and Mufasa, the lion rulers reigning over the Pride Lands, and the cub is presented to their subjects, an enormous hoarde of Serengeti animals, by the wise mandrill Rafiki (The Circle of Life). However, Mufasa's envious, contemptuous younger brother Scar is chagrined by the birth of his nephew, Simba, as he has been stripped of his status as heir presumptive to the throne through the prince's birth and conspires against Mufasa and Simba in secret in hopes of one day earning dominance over the Pride Lands.
Before long Simba ages into an eager, adventurous little cub anxious at the prospect of one day taking over the throne. In an attempt to prove his courage, Simba invites his closest friend Nala to venture out into the Elephant Graveyard (beyond the Pride Lands) with him in spite of his father's cautions of the hazards of the area. After distracting their babysitter Zazu the hornbill through song (I Just Can't Wait to Be King) the cubs escape to the graveyard but run into a trio of starving hyenas called Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed with the intentions of hunting them. Nala and Simba try to flee from the clutches of the hyenas, though fortunately Mufasa arrives to his son's aid before long and wards them off. Afterward, Simba apologizes to the forgiving king, who explains the guardianship of the spirits of previous kings to him in the stars above.
Controversies
Certain elements of the film were considered to bear a resemblance to a famous 1960s Japanese anime television show, Kimba the White Lion, with characters having analogues, and various individual scenes being nearly identical in composition and camera angle. Matthew Broderick believed initially that he was in fact working on a remake of Kimba, since he was familiar with the Japanese original. Disney's official stance is that the similarities are all coincidental. Yoshihiro Shimizu, of Tezuka Productions, which created Kimba the White Lion, has refuted rumours that the studio was paid hush money by Disney but explains that they rejected urges from within the industry to sue because, "we're a small, weak company. It wouldn't be worth it anyway ... Disney's lawyers are among the top twenty in the world!"
Protests were raised against one scene where it appears as if the word "SEX" might have been embedded into the dust flying in the sky when Simba flops down,which conservative activistDonald Wildmon asserted was a subliminal message intended to promote sexual promiscuity. The film's animators have stated that the letters spell "SFX" (a common abbreviation of "special effects"), and was intended as an innocent "signature" created by the effects animation team.
Hyena biologists protested against the animal's portrayal: one hyena researcher sued Disney studios for defamation of character, and another—who had organized the animators' visit to the University of California's Field Station for Behavioural Research, where they would observe and sketch captive hyenas— included boycotting The Lion King as a way of helping to preserve hyenas in the wild.
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I'm amazed Wikipedia didn't mention the cultural war among it's controversies. Scar's silhouette in front of a crescent moon as he plots to be king while surrounded by hyenas definitely hinting at Islam.
I'm not the only one who's caught this symbolism.
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