Comments on: Assassins: Luigi Mangione and John Wilkes Booth

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:35:05 +0000

https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/us-news/accused-ceo-killer-luigi-mangione-may-have-been-plotting-attack-against-brian-thompson-as-far-back-as-august/

By: Nonapod

Nonapod — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:55:03 +0000

I saw Timothée Chalamet on Theo Von’s podcast recently and he seems like a nice enough guy. As to whether he was right for playing Paul Atreides, he was decribed in the books as having an “oval face was like his mother Jessica’s, but he had stronger bones and a browline reminiscent of his maternal grandfather. He had a thin, disdainful nose, long lashes concealing lime-toned, directly staring green eyes, and a hardness in the expression like the old Duke, his paternal grandfather.” It seems to me Chalamet at least matches some of that pretty well.

By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)

Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:21:43 +0000

“It’s powerful, stirring music. It is the soundtrack to the movie leftists imagine they are starring in.”
Yes, precisely, or perhaps the on-line video game they continually play, in which the “star” (i.e., the viewer) gets to shoot the “bad guys” with total impunity, and never pays any lasting price for the mayhem perpetrated. Even if he is “killed” all that is necessary is to reboot and voila–back to life and more mayhem, ad nauseam. For the distaff among them, they get to fantasize about tossing 260 pound, muscular men like rag dolls and looking sexy at the same time. Never mind the real world where such confrontations are never going to end as well. For these self-imagined “revolutionaries,” reality seldom intrudes. Life is an extension of their imagination. Until it isn’t any more.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:15:15 +0000

I’ve run into Timothée Chalamet being called a “rat boy”. Don’t worry it’s a compliment, sort of.
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Vermin have entered the crowded beauty lexicon to describe unconventionally attractive Hollywood actors with large ears, angular features and lanky frames.

Dune actor Timothée Chalamet, Challengers leading men Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, along with The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and Ferrari’s Adam Driver, have been tagged as “rats” and “hot rodent boyfriends” by supposed admirers.

https://qoshe.com/the-sydney-morning-herald/damien-woolnough/timoth-e-chalamet-isn-t-a-rat-boy-and-neither-am-i/173747710
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He didn’t work for me as the supreme warrior leader in “Dune” — he looked too much like a boy band singer.

However, he was brilliant as a would-be student revolutionary in Wes Anderson’s parody of the New Yorker, “The French Dispatch.”

By: Chang Yee Fong

Chang Yee Fong — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:03:53 +0000

Boothe looks like Timothee Chalamet these days. https://images.app.goo.gl/nbWkq9CL98skx1mk9

Hmm maybe it’s the bone structure of their face.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:06:22 +0000

Booth’s co-conspirator Lewis Powell lacked the charisma of the actor, and was thought by some to be dimwitted, but his photo made him a heart throb like Mangione and Tsarnaev. I’m not sure if he had much of a fan club in his lifetime, but the picture became an icon afterwards.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:05:24 +0000

Ignoring the disgusting aspects of the deeds, this post is a pretty interesting connection/comparison. I’ve often thought that one of the worst things that can happen to a girl or young women was to be born exceptionally beautiful &/or sexy. Naturally, the parenting and general upbringing is hugely influential too.

I hadn’t really thought about the male converse. But, I also think that at least in the case of Mangione, his privilege and success in school is a factor too.

By: yara

yara — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:00:42 +0000

I just realized this, or maybe it’s just me, but Booth seems to have been used as the visual model for characters in westerns. to the point that he doesn’t seem particularly striking.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:24:17 +0000

Thanks, David.
A dynamite article describing a catastrophic dynamic.

By: David+Foster

David+Foster — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:01:45 +0000

Terrorism and empathy:

https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/how-terrorists-acquire-deploy-and-weaponise-western-empathy-against-israel-kiubf16b?utm_source=sharebutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=bottom

Her focus is on the use of empathy by Hamas, but also applicable to this assassin.