the death and life of bobby z , also known as bobby z and let 's kill bobby z , is a 2007 american/german action film , directed by john herzfeld , and starring paul walker , laurence fishburne , olivia wilde and joaquim de almeida .

the film received an r rating by the mpaa for violence , some drug use , language and brief nudity .

don winslow , who wrote the novel on which the film is based , acknowledged that the screen adaption was not successful .

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the death and life of bobby z is a 2007 action film starring paul walker as a convict who is offered the chance at redemption by impersonating a notorious marijuana trafficker known as bobby z , whom he is told is dead . the film ' s cast includes laurence fishburne and joaquim de almeida . the film , which was based on the novel the life and death of bobby z by don winslow ( the author of savages ) , was also released on video under the title bobby z as well as let ' s kill bobby z .
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bobby z . i thought she was kind of late . where was she during “head” ?
tim
bobby z
kearney ( paul walker ) wields a wilson combat protector .
tim
bobby z
kearney braces on a rock as he aims a m4a1 .
those skinny russian babes could skate on bobby z ,
one way might typically pronounce .
he ' s that cold . bobby z is the antarctica , except no penguins shit on him . he ' s pristine . placid . nothing worries bobby z .
don wilson ' s prose is quick and lucid , and the story of bobby z sings on every page .
bobby z . ( drummer , the revolution , 1978 - 87 ) we were kind of a carnival troupe .
small - time crook tim kearney is given the chance to win his freedom by impersonating drug lord bobby z . however , everyone seems to be after bobby z : a mexican drug lord and bobby ' s partner , and after tim too . tim / bobby flees from the assassins , but eventually finds the freedom he is looking for .
the publisher of
the death and life of bobby z
is trying to position it in the crime - thriller crowd as
elmore leonard on speed ,
as if leonard ' s novels were just hanging around on the corner waiting for something to go down .
see , you ' re such a moke you never even heard of bobby z ,
gruzsa says .
a dea agent ( fishburne ) provides former marine tim kearney ( walker ) with a way out of his prison sentence : impersonate bobby z , a recently deceased drug dealer , in a hostage switch with a crime lord . when the negotiations go awry , kearney flees , with z ' s son in tow . ( original title - the death and life of bobby z ) © 2006 equity pictures medienfonds gmbh & co . kg iv . all rights reserved .
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the death and life of bobby z is the book that started don winslow on his “drugs in laguna” series , which isn’t actually a series as much as an attitude and state of mind that led eventually to savages and its prequel . tim kearney is a three - time loser who gets fished out of a certain - death trip back to prison by a dea agent who gives him an offer he can’t refuse : impersonate legendary laguna beach dope dealer bobby z and let himself get traded to a mexican drug cartel in exchange for a kidnapped
i listened to the audio version of the death and the life of bobby z mainly just to get a feel for the author before i tackle the considerably heftier the power of the dog . this book was of course turned into the film of the same name staring the late paul walker , so it’s always interesting to compare the two . currently serving a life sentence without parole , decorated gulf war veteran tim kearney gets a poisoned chalice of an offer from the dea to impersonate the notorious and now dead drug smu
but tim gets something resembling a break when two dea agents offer him a deal . mexican drug lord don huertero wants to trade a captured agent for his business associate bobby zacharias . the problem with that is that bobby z has died of a heart attack in a thai jail . since huertero , like almost everyone else , has never actually seen bobby z , and since tim bears an uncanny resemblance to bobby ' s high school yearbook photo , tim has been selected to be bobby z until the switch can be arranged .
author don winslow wrote this book largely on a train during commutes and without an outline - - and it shows .
the death and life of bobby z
is a story that goes where it wants when it wants at a furious pace . the setup for the story is fairly simple . a big - time loser of a prison inmate kills another inmate in order to prevent the same thing from happening to him . as it happens , he resembles the notorious drug dealer bobby z . so the feds offer him a deal . they want to trade the dealer to a mexican drug kingpin in exchange for an agent , but bobby z happens to be dead . so if the loser will take the place of bobby z , they ' ll trade him and let him fend for himself . but the real bobby z , it turns out , has fathered a child , whom the imposter bobby z takes under his wing while fleeing from just about everybody and fleeing across mexico and california . one of the most compelling aspects of
the death and life of bobby z
is the style in which winslow writes . the novel is almost conversational , and winslow includes liberal doses of california surfer and mexican jargon . to his credit , winslow aptly pulls off what could have been an abysmal experiment . the style works with the plot to make this novel one of the fastest reads in a long time . on an unrelated note , there is a don winslow who writes what can politely be called
erotic
novels . these are two entirely different people . the winslow who wrote
the death and life of bobby z
is the author of the neal carey series (
the trail to buddha ' s mirror ,
a cool breeze on the underground ,
etc . ) . in addition , he wrote
a winter spy
under the name mcdonald lloyd .
bobby z . and keyboardist brown mark left the revolution along with wendy and lisa . dr . fink stayed on until 1991 . the full group hasn’t performed together since 1986 .
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the author of the death and life of bobby z . and the power of the dog now gives us a fierce and funny new novelâ€”and a blistering new take on the mafia story . frank machianno is a late - middle - aged exâ€“surf bum who runs a bait shack on the san diego waterfront when heâ€™s not juggling any of his other three part - time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his longboard . h
the story of the legendary bobby z - - a marijuana kingpin so slick that not even his best customers have met him - - isn ' t really bobby z ' s story at all . it ' s the tale of the decidedly unlegendary tim kearney , a former marine whose entire life has been a series of mishaps and messups . his latest , the him - or - me murder of a hell ' s angel in a prison yard , is probably his last ; he ' s destined to spend the rest of his life in the joint , a life the angels have pledged to abbreviate .
i loved this wild ride of a tale ! this is an early don winslow - - so old that i had to track down a paperback copy online . totally worth it . loved the ending when everything wrapped up and made sense .
the death and life of bobby z
is violent , crazy and just plain wonderful and totally foreshadows the great stories winslow had yet to write . enjoy !
she had turned to the greek shipping magnate for comfort after the death of her son patrick at just two days old .
tim agrees to the deal , only to get shoved into a thicket of treachery and betrayal and coincidence so incredible it could only be imagined by a novelist with an appreciation for colorful characters and unlikely possibilities . both are conveniently in residence at the desert villa of brian cervier , a slave trader who gives the presumed bobby z refuge after the switch at the border goes bad . brian ' s ranch is a hideaway not only for the illegal immigrants he sells but also for eurotrash drug dealers and friends of both huertero and bobby z or both , like bobby z ' s former lover elizabeth .
tim kearney is an incarcerated former marine who is offered freedom by dea agent tad gruzsa in exchange for impersonating recently - late drug lord bobby z . things don ' t go as planned , however , and kearney ends up on the run with bobby z ' s 12 - year - old son .
bobby z is ice ,
intones one way , resident lunatic of laguna ' s public beach and self - appointed homer to bobby ' s ulysses .
one way
is short for
one - way trip ,
the story being that one way took a trip on six dots of blotter acid and never really came back . he wanders the streets of laguna annoying tourists with his endless stream - of - consciousness soliloquies about the legend of bobby z .
the colt m4a1 is used by agent tad gruzsa ( laurence fishburne ) , one of don huertero ' s men , and tim
bobby z
kearney ( paul walker ) .
“when jack died , i knew she was seeing bobby , too , but that didn’t stop me . bobby couldn’t always be with her . ”
lifelong loser tim kearney looks an awful like legendary drug smuggler bobby z . tim has temper , a tough luck streak , absolutely nothing going for him , and crosshairs on his head . bobby z is laid back , cool , and tough . the dea needs tim to act as an imposter for a prisoner exchange with a powerful cartel . a la kegemusha . chaos descends upon the exchange and tim must flee as the cool bobby z . after being mildly disappointed with savages and blown away by power of the dog , i wasn ' t sure what to thi
winslow ' s
the winter of frankie machine
is one of my very favorite crime novels , so i was very much looking forward to
the death and life of bobby z
. to say i was disappointed would be an understatement . whereas frankie ' s narrative is grounded and every development feels earned , the developments in this book are often the result of happenstance and dumb luck . after a while , it all feels very convenient . . . and deeply unsatisfying .
you never heard of bobby z ?
escobar asks . his jaw ' s hanging open like he just can ' t believe what he ' s hearing .
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bobby z couldn ' t even get a driver ' s license and was already a legend . part of the legend was that z had hitchhiked to his first big marijuana buy and hitchhiked back , just stood out there on the pacific coast highway with his thumb out and two nike gym bags stuffed with maui wowie at his feet .
most shocking of all was how close she got to john’s younger brothers ted and bobby — both married men .
a dea agent provides former marine tim kearney with a way out of his prison sentence : impersonate bobby z , a recently deceased drug dealer , in a hostage switch with a crime lord . when the negotiations go awry , kearney flees , with z’s son in tow .
damn , so you cant be smart and in the hood ? maybe her other son didnt want any part of the hood life .
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ex - marine and convicted criminal tim kearney has been marked for death by a murderous biker gang , and now in order to cheat death he will assume the role of a powerful , recently deceased drug lord in this pulsating crime thriller starring paul walker and laurence fishburne . when kearney ( walker ) copped a plea with a scheming dea agent ( fishburne ) to impersonate surfing drug lord bobby z , his back was against a wall . now , as the former convict convinces everyone including bobby z ' s girlfriend ( olivia wilde ) that he is in fact the man he claims to be , the drug dealer ' s old enemies turn up ready to settle some old scores . as the bullets begin to fly , the only choice kearney has is to run for his life . hunted from both sides of the law , kearney attempts to protect the real bobby z ' s son despite the fact that his flight may find him missing out on some tidy illegal profits . ~ jason buchanan , rovi
a book in the style of carl hiassen . a thriller set in southern california , san diego , orange county beaches , the desert . tim kearney is a loser who has committed his third strike and is on the way to prison for the rest of his life . fortuitously for him , he looks like a drug dealer ( bobby z . ) that has just died in custody . a mexican drug lord wants to swap the look - alike for a dea agent that he has in custody . the dea picks out kearney to play the part of bobby z and exchanges him . unfortunatel
a dea agent provides former marine tim kearney with a way out of his prison sentence : impersonate bobby z , a recently deceased drug dealer , in a hostage switch with a crime lord . when the negotiations go awry , kearney flees , with z ' s son in tow .
in this fresh , exciting first novel , three - time loser tim kearney is given a chance to leave prison behind when federal agents note his physical resemblance to legendary california drug dealer bobby z . first , however , kearney must impersonate bobby z convincingly enough to fool a ruthless mexican drug dealer . kearney is successful and comes to enjoy the awe and respect his new identity carries . yet many people would like to see bobby z dead , and soon kearneyunable and unwilling to shed his disguisemust run for his life . winslow juggles black humor , excellent dialog , and numerous plot twists with the ease of an accomplished veteran . sure to be popular , this novel is recommended most fiction collections . mark annichiarico ,
library journal
sad story about the death of his brother . the homework part ? ? ? ? ? ? uhhhhh ; not believable . but i respect their hustle in the game .
der drogendealer bobby z ist eine legende . und wie bei legenden meist üblich , ist er tot . an einem banalen herzinfarkt gestorben . bobby z ! an einem herzinfarkt ! das kann man nur schwer glauben . tim kearney ist keine legende . tim kearney ist mehr der typ pechvogel . ein kleinganove , der bei einem einbruch schon mal über einen rasensprenger stolpert und so der polizei ihren job recht leicht macht . aber tim kearney lebt . und er sieht bobby z zum verwechseln ähnlich . die sache ist nämlich die : dea - agen
ser tim kearney murdered a hell ' s angel , he didn ' t have a choice . now , sentenced to life without parole in a prison full of the angel ' s vengeful buddies , he doesn ' t have a chance . then the feds make him an offer : impersonate the late , legendary drug lord bobby z and allow himself to be delivered to a mexican kingpin in exchange for a kidnapped agent . if the deal goes down , tim can walk away a free man . but when the swap turns bloody , tim runs - - straight into the luxurious , chaotic , hair - raising , and very hazardous life of bobby z . . . .
but since her death from cancer aged 64 in 1994 , far more about her illicit trysts has become known .
a dea agent provides former marine tim kearney with a way out of his prison sentence : impersonate bobby z , a recently deceased drug dealer , in a hostage switch with a crime lord .
her brief fling with peter cook , however , reportedly took place before the president’s death , while the comic was performing a revue on broadway .
when born loser tim kearney murdered a hell ' s angel , he didn ' t have a choice . now , sentenced to life without parole in a prison full of the angel ' s vengeful buddies , he doesn ' t have a chance . then the feds make him an offer : impersonate the late , legendary drug lord bobby z and allow himself to be delivered to a mexican kingpin in exchange for a kidnapped agent . if the deal goes down , tim can walk away a free man . but when the swap turns bloody , tim runs - - straight into the luxurious , chaotic , hair - raising , and very hazardous life of bobby z . . . .
but the very next weekend after the assassination , jackie summoned a journalist for an interview for the mega - selling magazine life .
miriama aoake listens to jay - z’s new album 4 : 44 and finds the rapper full of introspection , self - criticism and , ultimately , black empowerment .
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although the plot is essentially nonsensical ( why train kearney in how to look , act , talk , and know every intimate detail of bobby z if you ' re planning on killing him right away ? ) , the death and life of bobby z isn ' t the sort of film that ' s going to let a little thing like logic get in the way of an action - packed good time . as is typical for a john herzfeld ( 2 days in the valley , two of a kind ) thriller , the emphasis is more on colorful characterizations , plenty of violent confrontations , and a high degree of quirky energy , cohesive storyline be damned . your enjoyment of the film will primarily depend on what sort of entertainment you ' re looking for going in , as it delivers plenty for action junkies , and a decent amount of sex and violence , but somewhere along the line , don winslow ' s original book gets lost in place of the more sensational side of things .
tim kearney is a loser . he ' s already in prison for the fourth time because of a criminal offence . there he ' s offered a deal with the dea , which would involve his impersonating a legendary drug dealer , bobby z . tim is told that the real bobby z has recently died of a heart attack in an embassy in thailand , shortly after getting out of prison there . the plan that had been in operation at the time of bobby ' s death was for him to be exchanged for a dea agent that was being held by a mexican drug cartel . the feds explain to tim that if he agrees to go along with this
transfer ,
he will be free to escape south of the border once the dea agent is safely back on the american side .
don huertero ( joaquim de almeida ) and one of his henchmen use beretta 92fs pistols . a biker in the ending and federal agent tad gruzsa ( laurence fishburne ) use beretta 92fs ' as well as tim
bobby z
kearney ( paul walker ) .
bobby z . would i have like to have gone on and done more prince and the revolution stuff ? of course . it was a band for the ages . but prince wanted to experiment with different musical people . i mean , it happened to lennon and mccartney . it’s just human nature .
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that was awesome ! never read winslow and now he moves right to the top of my to read list . this story is about a
three time loser
, tim , who is pisked by the dea to act like the infamous drug king pin bobby z . he looks just like him and after some
training
the dea hope to use him for a trade to get one of their own back from another dug king pin . but along the way tim / bobby find a few surprises along the way . and with that , the bodies and the enemies start to grow . tim / bobby must draw deep to
from the bestselling author of savages ( now an oliver stone film ) . when tim kearney , a small - time criminal , slits the throat of a hell ' s angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members , he knows he’s pretty much a dead man . that’s until the dea makes kearney an offer : impersonate the late , legendary dope smuggler bobby z so that the agency can trade him fo
when tim kearney draws a license plate across the throat of a hell’s angel , he’s pretty much a dead man . it’s his third crime and , according to california law , that gives him
life without the possibility of parole .
killing a hell’s angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in california . that’s when the dea makes kearney an offer : impersonate the late , legendary dope smuggler bobby z so that the agency can trade him to don huertero — northern mexico’s drug kingpin — for a captured dea agent . tim kearney bears an uncanny resemblance to bobby z , and , with some training , he might be able to pass . or not . but , really , what choice does he have ? so , he’s off to a compound in the middle of a desert that’s been designed by huertero’s number - two man to look like the arab fort in his favorite movie , beau jeste (
the santa fe thing had been done to death .
) kearney’s surprised when he meets bobby z’s old flame , elizabeth , who was never mentioned in his training , and her son , who she claims belongs to him . it’s a short vacation by the pool before kearney’s on the run from drug lords , bikers , indians , and cops … and the kid’s along for the ride . some of the pursuers want bobby z , and some want the considerably less legendary tim k . whether he pulls it off , whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life , makes for a hilarious , fast - paced , and truly touching audio .
the legend continued that bobby z converted the profits of those two nike bags into four more nike bags , then sixteen , then thirty - two , and by that time he ' d given some money to a flunky adult to buy a classic ' 66 mustang and drive him around .
‘4 : 44’ seems to be the pinnacle of the album , both in jay’s own opinion and particularly with the beyhive . the number 4 is significant for both queen b and jay - z . beyoncé was born september 4
how tim kearney gets to be bobby z is that he sharpens a license plate to a razor ' s edge and draws it across the throat of a humongous hell ' s angel named stinkdog , making stinkdog instantly dead and a dea agent named tad cruzsa instantly happy .
bobby z . i think there always was a battle - of - the - bands story line — the triple threat tour was definitely the impetus . we had an epic food fight with the time that could’ve easily been in the movie ; it spurred the whole time - versus - revolution myth . it went from the show to the hotel and back to the bus to the airport and never stopped for about three days .
the delivery of the document and the ending of the hunger - strike ushered in a new atmosphere and bobby sands , the blanket men’s o / c , was given freedom to liase and meet with the hunger strikers in the prison hospital , and each of the blanket block o / cs , and it was with him that the jail governor met directly , thus conferring recognition of the republican command structure . this recognition was reinforced when on friday , december 19th , all of the h - block o / cs were brought out of their blocks for a further meeting with bobby sands in h - block 3 . bobby sands himself publicly expressed satisfaction at the new era of cooperation inside the jail , unprecedented since the british government embarked upon its policy of criminalisation in march 1976 .
blinn i think we had a better first draft — more mysterious and offbeat . the character of the father was a suicide , not an attempted suicide , and he was gone . the overall thrust of the picture was the kid being torn between the dark allure of death — what it does to a kid when a parent commits suicide — and music and sexuality .
ira hungerstriker bobby sands ( far right ) pictured in long kesh prison with thomas louden , gerard rooney and denis donaldson .
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peter reid : rest in peace mrs sands . you are now reunited with your loving son bobby x
bobby z . we’d been playing arenas , but it turned into multiple nights : seven nights at the forum [ in l . a . ] , 11 nights at the summit in houston . we put down stakes , just camped out in the city .
in a new interview with urltoken , debra antney reveals the trauma in her life that lead her – and her son – to the public eye .
she also loved sharing the high life enjoyed by films stars , drinking champagne every day and , of course , wearing her famously chic designer clothes .
even before her husband’s murder , bobby had spent a lot of time with her at the family home in massachusetts during john’s long absences .
gruzsa is right . not only does the murder rap make tim kearney a three - time loser , but killing a hell ' s angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in california , so
life without possibility of parole
really means
life without possibility of life
once tim gets back into the general prison population .
“we have asserted that we are political prisoners and everything about our country , our arrest , interrogations , trials and prison conditions , show that we are politically motivated and not motivated by selfish reasons or for selfish ends . as further demonstration of our selflessness and the justness of our cause a number of comrades , beginning today with bobby sands will hunger strike to the death unless the british government abandons its criminalisation policy and meets our demand for political status . ”
jay apologises , mourning the death of b’s innocence , the loss of miscarriage and falling short of his own self ideal . jay confesses , “like the men before me , i cut my nose off to spite my face” , a response that affirms b’s claim on
a book in the style of carl hiassen . a thriller set in southern california , san diego , orange county beaches , the desert . tim kearney is a loser who has committed his third strike and is on the way to prison for the rest of his life . fortuitously for him , he looks like a drug dealer ( bobby z . ) that has just died in custody . a mexican drug lord wants to swap the look - alike for a dea agent that he has in custody . the dea picks out kearney to play the part of bobby z and exchanges him . unfortunately the exchange goes wrong and kearney ends up the prisoner of the drug lord and eventually on the run with just about everyone out to kill him . the plot continues from there . there is a 6 - year old boy involved , a beautiful woman , a crazy drifter , a group of very mean hells angels and some indian trackers .
but father - of - 11 bobby had to give up the relationship when he made his own bid for the presidency in 1968 — which ended in his assassination during the campaign .
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they were not always discreet , because one of bobby’s former lovers saw him getting affectionate with jackie as she was sunbathing topless .
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when tim kearney , a small - time criminal , slits the throat of a hell’s angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members , he knows he’s pretty much a dead man . that’s until the dea makes kearney an offer : impersonate the late , legendary dope smuggler bobby z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own , who was captured by a mexican drug kingpin . knowing his chances of survival are a little better than in prison , kearney accepts , and he winds up in the middle of a desert at the notorious drug lord’s lavish compound . to his surprise he meets bobby z’s old flame , elizabeth , and her son . at first , it’s a short vacation by the pool , but when things turn bloody , the three of them begin the most desperate flight of their lives , with drug lords , bikers , indians , and cops furiously chasing after them . whether he pulls it off , whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life , makes this compelling novel a hilarious , fast - paced thriller about a con caught in a devil’s bargain .
bobby z . my first reaction was , “wow , this is almost a country song . ” it had a different feel than anything we’d been rehearsing for the rest of the album . i realize now it was probably , in his mind , the centerpiece of the story . but that’s prince — his ability to thread the needle , so to speak .
for all of the criticism i ' ve thrown at paul walker for his limited acting ability , he seems to have come into his own in action movies . he does exude that california surfer look and is built well enough to look like he is a tough guy in a fight . the demanding choreography of bobby z caters well to walker ' s physical attributes , and considering the lifestyle of the dregs of humanity he is rubbing elbows with in the film , as well as the fact that he is supposed to be unsure of what ' s going on throughout , the limited nature of the role keeps the need for a great performance in check . fishburne is , arguably , the best actor of the bunch , but he isn ' t on screen most of the time , and his role is more of a throwaway in his career . if it wasn ' t for a paycheck , my guess his interest in the film primarily resides in his desire to be in every film he can with
bobby
in the title ( bobby and searching for bobby fischer are his others ) .
unlike you , dipstick ,
gruzsa says to tim .
you know how bobby z spends his high school graduation night ? he rents a suite - - a suite - - at the ritz - carlton in laguna niguel and has his friends over for the whole weekend .
and z figures out early , even before he skips his graduation ceremony , fuck retail , retail is where you get to lean against your car and spread ' em . wholesale is where it ' s at : supply the supplier who supplies the supplier . get to that level and become a non - person just managing the orderly flow of the product and the money and never ever put your own ass on the line . like buy sell , buy sell , and z is an organizational genius and he has it figured out .
the author of the death and life of bobby z . and the power of the dog now gives us a fierce and funny new novelâ€”and a blistering new take on the mafia story . frank machianno is a late - middle - aged exâ€“surf bum who runs a bait shack on the san diego waterfront when heâ€™s not juggling any of his other three part - time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his longboard . heâ€™s a stand - up businessman , a devoted father to his daughter , and a beloved fixture in the community . frankâ€™s also a hit man . specifically : a retired hit man . back in the day , when he was one of the most feared members of the west coast mafia , he was known as frankie machine . years ago frank consigned his mob ties to the past , which is where he wants them to stay . but a favor being called in now by the local boss is one frank canâ€™t refuse , and soon heâ€™s sucked back into the treacherous currents of his former life . someone from the past wants him dead . he has to figure out who , and why , and he has to do it fast . the problem is that the list of candidates is about the size of his local phone book and frankâ€™s rapidly running out of time . and then things go really bad .
when tim kearney , a small - time criminal , slits the throat of a hell ' s angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members , he knows he’s pretty much a dead man . that’s until the dea makes kearney an offer : impersonate the late , legendary dope smuggler bobby z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own , who was captured by a mexican drug kingpin . knowing his chances of survival are a little better than in prison , kearney accepts , and he winds up in the middle of a desert at the notorious drug lord’s lavish compound . to his surprise he meets bobby z ' s old flame , elizabeth , and her son . at first , it’s a short vacation by the pool , but when things turn bloody , the three of them begin the most desperate flight of their lives , with drug lords , bikers , indians , and cops furiously chasing after them . whether he pulls it off , whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life , makes this compelling novel a hilarious , fast - paced thriller about a con caught in a devil’s bargain .
a former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility .
winslow ' s hero is tim kearney , a three - time loser about to become a lifelong resident of california ' s correctional institutions , if he can survive retribution from the comrades of the hell ' s angel he killed in self - defense . he ' s given a deal by the dea : impersonate bobby z , a legendary drug dealer to whom tim bears a striking resemblance and who happens to be inconveniently dead . the dea needs bobby to swap for one of their agents who ' s been kidnapped by a latino drug lord . tim takes the deal and does a first - rate acting job . trouble is , the open arms the drug lord plans to greet bobby with are firearms .
bobby z . he was really good at style , and he knew that when you feel good in something , your character comes out . he could take people and find their strengths . i had a mustache and curly hair , and it’s pretty easy to turn that into a suave character . who doesn’t want to be suave ?
at that point the old man got the belt out , but tim had learned a lot of useful life skills in chino , and in a couple of seconds the old man was falling backward and there wasn ' t anyone there to keep him from hitting the floor .
sf : you ' ve said businesses need to build moats around them . what kind of moats should jay - z be building ?
the night after germain ' s death , several of her friends , holding forty - ounce bottles of colt . 45 and mickey ' s , walked to the bunge silos . they stood together and toasted germain , who had often laughed about the absurd size of those bottles . then they poured out the beer and arranged the bottles in a heart shape to honor their friend .
where tim did his stretch and picked up a lot of useful life skills , and he was out about a month when the glittering lights of palm springs winked at him again . he was looking for jewelry this time and was almost out of the house and away with the goods when he tripped on a lawn sprinkler and sprained his ankle and westtech security grabbed him .
compared to winslow ' s epic and well - researched cartel epos , this is a fun and pulpy story along the lines of savages and kings of cool . the plot about an ex - marine now petty criminal getting instructed by the dea to play drug dealer legend bobby z is unbelievable and reads like a b - movie from the 70s or 80s . but the witty dialogue , the over - the - top characters and short chapters make this a fast and compelling read . if you like entertaining crime on the pulpy side , read this . it ' s definitely not o
james frank worsham jr . , 90 , of paris tx , passed from this life on friday june 8 , 2018 .
esther ruth hopkins , 84 , of lone star departed this life on june 2 , 2018 , at 84 years old .
inmate tim kearney is a three - time loser with impulse control problems . he ' s great at breaking and entering , but has trouble with the exiting part . after stirring up trouble with a few hell ' s angels in gen pop , tim gets offered a deal : either go back to prison , or masquerade as a guy named bobby z during a hand off with a mexican cartel . well aware that his options are
very dead
and
mostly likely dead
, tim chooses door number two and becomes bobby z - the most notorious pot dealer in californ
the winter of frankie machine by don winslow is novel based on the past and current life of an older man named frank machianno , who operates a bait shop on a pier and is known and loved by all , and who also is considered by most to be the unofficial keeper of law and order on the pier . frank has his hands in several money making ventures ; in addition to the bait shop , he also owns other businesses , and supplies tuna to restaurants . divorced with a daughter and having a girlfriend , his life has de
but the story of germain vigeant ' s short life and sudden death doesn ' t fit neatly into either view . it ' s the story of a charismatic , big - hearted girl from st . paul ' s east side who had finally figured out her direction in life when a single misstep ended it . it ' s the kind of story dreaded by parents who watch with clenched hope as their children leave the protection of home to face of world of risk and choice at college—by parents who hope those kids will survive a few missteps because they ' re lucky enough , unlike germain , to fall inside the odds .
, available exclusively to stream on tidal , for now . with a series of headlining performances to follow , the cogs of jay - z’s 2017 are just beginning to churn .
this is a fast - paced , action packed , funny read . . . with even time for some touching moments . i can see why this was made into a movie , because it sure had that movie pace . the legend of bobby z was a wild ride .
that was awesome ! never read winslow and now he moves right to the top of my to read list . this story is about a
three time loser
, tim , who is pisked by the dea to act like the infamous drug king pin bobby z . he looks just like him and after some
training
the dea hope to use him for a trade to get one of their own back from another dug king pin . but along the way tim / bobby find a few surprises along the way . and with that , the bodies and the enemies start to grow . tim / bobby must draw deep to try and overcome his
three time loser
ways and mentality . it is funny , touching , goofy and so well written i wnated it to go on and on . i see there ' s a movie base on the sotry , but that looks and sounds like crap . so the book will do just fine .
sf : warren , what advice would you have for jay - z in the music business ? you ' ve seen business models change a bit in the newspaper business with the washington post and buffalo news .
that “in the tradition of men in my blood / you come home at 3am and lie to me . ” jay z holds himself accountable , digressing from the tradition representations of black masculinity and attempting to reconcile the damage that he , and men like him , repeatedly inflict on black women . the problem though is in the song’s reception . despite the incident with
in the spring of 1914 , a group of students at the slade school of art . . .
to calculate the mean rbc age at the time of labeling and at subsequent times after reinfusion , the following analytical sequence was used 29 : ( 1 ) the fraction of labeled cells after 24 hours was taken as 100 % ; ( 2 ) a straight line between the final 2 points of the red cell survival curve was extrapolated to the time axis to give a maximum survival time ; ( 3 ) a cubic fit of the rbc survival curve was performed ; ( 4 ) the death rate as a function of time ( first derivative of the survival curve ) was generated ; ( 5 ) the cell death rate was used to determine the initial cell age distribution as described 29 , 30 ; ( 6 ) the initial mean age was calculated from the initial age distribution ; and , finally , ( 7 ) the mean age at any postinfusion time , t , was determined using a similar strategy by recalculating the death rate function and age distribution at each time t from that time forward . 29
new york , ny - march 08 : harvey weinstein , jay z , and kristi jacobson speak onstage during time and punishment : a town hall discussion with jay z and harvey weinstein on spike tv at mtv studios on march 8 , 2017 in new york city . ( photo by dave kotinsky / getty images for spike )
i read the novel after the much more ambitious ' the power of the dog ' and ' the cartel ' , which wasn ' t necessarily bad .
using a blend of archive footage and contributions from a wide variety of historians and commentators , the film broadens out from the emotive circumstances of the strike itself to put what happened into historical and social context .
muller hg , wang jl , carey jr , et al . demographic window to aging in the wild : constructing life tables and estimating survival functions from marked individuals of unknown age .
gayle golden is a freelance journalist and teaches at the university of minnesota ' s school of journalism and mass communication .
rbc disappearance in ndm and dm subjects . ( top ) ndm subjects ; ( bottom ) dm subjects . because rbc disappearance curves were nonlinear , determination of rbc life span as the x - intercept is not the most meaningful approach to summarizing the exposure of the rbcs to plasma glucose . mean cell age was therefore used , computed from the survival curves , fitted to cubic equations ( “analysis of rbc life span” ) .
sf : philanthropy and business are almost opposite sides of the same coin , meeting the needs and wants of others , a little different way of doing it .


it remains to be the only accurate documentation of the victims and families of the shooters involved in the columbine high school massacre , as well as the media and police coverage of the event .

released just over six months after the columbine event , it was written , produced , and directed by william hellfire and joey smack , who also starred .

the film is said to have helped pay for hellfire 's legal fees .

duck ! the carbine high massacre

the carbine high massacre . official authentic region 1 ( for usa / canada dvd players ) .
join us this week for the latest daily grindhouse presents : no - budget nightmares podcast where moe and myself will have a chat about duck ! the carbine high massacre .
can ' t wait to see that ! having grown up as a fundamentalist , i was particularly amused by your performance in duck ! the carbine high massacre . is that a part you look back on fondly ?
one of the first movies inspired by the columbine high school massacre , duck ! the carbine high massacre is a low budget independent film released less than a year after the shootings . if you like this consider buying the dvd : urltoken other movies in this same style : urltoken * disclaimer * i do not own anything . i ' m just passionate about school shootings
duck ! the carbine high massacre is a member of the following lists : american films , english - language films , satirical films , black comedy films , independent films , films about school violence , films shot in new jersey , films set in new jersey , 2000 films and 1999 films .
duck ! the carbine high massacre tongue - in - cheek film inspired by the events at columbine high . one of the first columbine - inspired movies to hit dvd . amateur - made and completely irreverent . it ' s not a movie for sensitive viewers or for viewers who want a film that takes the subject seriously . movie : ( 2000 ) directed by william hellfire .
duck ! the carbine high massacre is a 1999 american black comedy crime film about a fictional school shooting . it was one of the first films inspired by the columbine high school massacre . released less than a year after the columbine event , it was written , produced , and directed by william hellfire and joey smack , who also starred . after the film was released , hellfire and smack were arrested for possession of weapons on school property . wikipedia
some people think that elephant was tasteless . . . and those people did not see duck ! the carbine high massacre . i ' ve been meaning to see this movie for a long time , but i thought it would be exploitative without any redeeming value . i ' m pleased to find that it does feel redemptive .
the horrific massacre that occurred at colorado’s columbine high school is the inspiration for this controversial spoof with a plot similar to the ghastly event .
, just two months after the massacre . the developers , xatrix entertainment , became aware of the massacre and implemented a
safe
version
the book give a boy a gun is about two high school students who plan to shoot up their high school dance . the killers idolize harris and klebold and hope to outdo them with their massacre .
the book give a boy a gun is about two high school students who plan to shoot up their high school dance . the killers idolize harris and klebold , hoping to outdo columbine with their own massacre .
the black comedy exploitation film duck ! the carbine high massacre . released exactly one year after columbine , duck ! was the first film to be made about the killings , and without a doubt the most tasteless . the makers of the film were arrested and briefly imprisoned for bringing guns onto school grounds to shoot their movie - - something that they proudly boasted about on the film ' s cover . what else would you expect from a film made by two guys from jersey calling themselves william hellfire and joey smack ?
in 2007 , the massacre was documented in an episode of the final report .
and knelt down to fire several shots with his carbine at a duffel bag containing one of the 20 - lb propane bombs .
president ann richards chooses not to exploit the massacre for political gain and instead meets with victims of the massacre to listen to what they have to say .
since my buddy devilman had his fill of shot - on - video low budget american movies with the attack of the cockfaced killer ( reviewed elsewhere ) , i volunteered to step in and review duck ! the carbine high massacre for him . not having reliable access online myself , this is not something that i get a chance to do often , but anything to help save devilman ' s delicate sensabilities ( yeah , right ) .
the division : season 4 ep . 21 : zero tolerance deals with a high school student shot . makes a reference to the columbine high shootings . aired june 28 , 2004 .
the black comedy exploitation film duck ! the carbine high massacre , released exactly one year after columbine , was the first film made about the killings . it is also , without any doubt , the most tasteless of such films . the filmmakers were arrested and briefly imprisoned for bringing guns onto school grounds to shoot their movie—something that they proudly boasted about on the film ' s cover . what else would you expect from a film made by two guys from jersey calling themselves william hellfire and joey smack ?
) , which deals with a high school gunman , to fall out of print .
in 2004 the columbine high school massacre was dramatized on zero hour , with the killers being portrayed by ben johnson ( as eric harris ) and josh young ( as dylan klebold ) .
notably , the focus is not on high school dynamics , but on mass - murdering terrorists .
more than ten years after the fact , and with a slew of school shootings in its wake , the columbine high massacre still provokes a lot complex and passionate responses from the general public . even now the idea of a comedy based on such a tragic incident is enough to elicit looks of disgust , so you can imagine the response when duck ! the carbine high massacre actually found a home video release in 2000 . it remains difficult to watch , with some bad taste elements that are legitimately unpleasant , but it’s also a shockingly brave in a way that you rarely see in low - budget film - making . for viewers with strong stomachs , it’s a supremely rewarding viewing experience .
, a 9mm semi - automatic carbine rifle and a 9mm tec - dc9 semi - automatic pistol , they headed back to the school . they proceeded up the hill
the song
youth of the nation
by pod was inspired by columbine and the santana high shooting in california .
[ eric harris and dylan klebold ] did get a movie made about them , six months after their attack , not directed by steven spielberg or quentin tarantino , but by william hellfire and joey smack , the movie being
duck ! the carbine high massacre
. it ' s a
comedy
movie staring derwin ( william hellfire ) and derick ( joey smack ) . no one should watch it , not because of the theme , let ' s face it , it ' s because it ' s shite and unfunny .
.
massacre
a micro budget horror movie . make a movie for 500 dollars .
parents link suicide to massacre by neil h . devlin , denver post - may 19 2000
had its american theatrical release limited to just five theaters partly as a result of the columbine massacre .
harris and klebold were portrayed as daniel lynn and dara mcdermott in the film heart of america ; alex and eric in the film elephant by gus van sant ; [ 52 ] cal gabriel and andre kriegman in zero day by ben coccio ; [ 53 ] derwen and derrick in duck ! the carbine high massacre by william hellfire and joey smack ; [ 54 ] chance and will in american yearbook by brian ging ; [ 55 ] an unnamed shooter in home room ; devon browning in the only way ; [ 56 ] and as ben harris in april showers .
like when the two kids walked into the columbine high school on april 20 , 1999 and turned shotguns on their classmates .
april showers was written and directed by a man who was a senior at columbine when the massacre took place .
april showers , which was directed by a man who was a senior at columbine when the massacre took place .
parallels are drawn between columbine and the school massacre that freddy is responsible for in dreamspawn . the massacre was blamed on the now - insane protagonist and her dead friends because they were outcasts . this plot point is handled really anviliciously , though .
a number of indie films have been made that are basically retellings of the columbine massacre and the events that followed with the names changed .
chronicles the history of the game
super columbine massacre rpg ! .
the film traces back the 16 - bit role - playing game to its
the song
youth of the nation
by p . o . d . was inspired by both columbine and the santana high shooting in california .
trevor is a troubled high school student , thanks to the effects of bullying . this is the story of his fight to break free .
as with columbine , after a certain point the halls are cleared and everyone is hiding in locked rooms , cutting the massacre short .
trump on friday suggested that the orlando nightclub massacre victims could have stopped the attack or lessened its toll if they had been armed .
duck !
is definitely a satiric take on many things . it addresses the absurdity of the media , parent ' s perceptions of their children , the reasons why people are driven to kill , stereotypes , and family . this movie isn ' t for anyone who is offended by just about everything . the basic plot is that derwin and derek are outcasts at carbine high school . they encounter many abuses by bullies , society , and in some cases by parents . derwin and derek decide that they can no longer cope and that if they go anywhere , they ' ll just find the same thing , so they decide to plan a massacre at their high school . the movie boasts a cast of different stereotypes from the bully jocks , the bible thumper , the granola - girl folk singer , the goth kids , the geeky idiot , and the gearhead to name a few . the situa
parallels are drawn between columbine and the school massacre that freddy is responsible for in a nightmare on elm street : dreamspawn . the massacre was blamed on the ( now insane ) protagonist and her dead friends , because they were outcasts . its handled really anviliciously .
the original poster for the final was clearly designed to invoke the massacre . it ' s no surprise why it wasn ' t used on the dvd release .
but in a twist , the klebold - expy did not know that the harris - expy was serious , and ended up shooting him to put a stop to the massacre . a third guy also tried to back out , so the harris - expy murdered him prior to the massacre .
that ' s what the news media failed to see when examining the columbine massacre . they were quick to blame violent movies and videogames like
well , i found the movie . and if you write to me , i ' ll tell you where to get it . it ' s called
duck ! : the carbine high massacre ,
and it ' s told from the point of view of the two trenchcoat boys who went postal in the cafeteria . if i had to guess , it was put together by some friends who have spent their whole lives being called
freaks
- - punk kids , goth kids , headbangers - - and so wanted to point out a few things that might have motivated the suicidal mass murderers . of course , that just makes it all the more likely to be consigned to the dempster dumpster of low - budget direct - to - video failures .
the original poster for the final was clearly designed to invoke the massacre . the dvd release did not use it , and you should not have to guess why .
two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school . one of them isn ' t joking .
featured a group of just - out - of - high - school boys who talked about doing what the columbine boys tried to do .
) the film ' s general theme is that no one has easy answers for the massacre . after all , both harris and klebold were bowlers—
eric david harris ( april 9 , 1981 – april 20 , 1999 ) and dylan bennet klebold ( september 11 , 1981 – april 20 , 1999 ) were the two american high school seniors who committed the columbine high school massacre . the pair killed 13 people and injured 24 others , three of whom were injured as they escaped the attack . [ 1 ] the two then committed suicide in the library , where they had killed 10 of their victims .
the columbine high school massacre saw the deaths of fifteen people - - twelve students , one teacher , and the killers themselves - - and the injury of another twenty - four people . after it happened , everybody ran around like a headless chicken trying to rationalize it . here ' s our attempt .
in the crapsack world setting of deus ex human revolution , another columbine massacre apparently happened , as an npc will mention
the second time
.
shot on the ultracheap , duck ! displays the low production values you’d expect from a camcorder flick – crude sound , and the attendant level of acting . most of the actors take on colorful fake names , like misty mundane and michael ovum . all the characters wear the same wardrobe every day , and a friend’s band performs at a party . however , the final massacre features gore effects surprisingly up to – um , snuff .
the matrix was released three weeks before the massacre . it was soon accused of inspiring the shooters due to the
action hero in a trench coat
look it popularized .
a journalist interviews a sixteen year old boy , who is in police custody after he shot and killed 42 people at his high school .
two bullied high - school students ( william hellfire , joey smack ) fight back against their oppressors in a hail of bullets and blood .
being released just ten days after the massacre is often cited as the reason why the horror - comedy idle hands flopped at the box office . its plot involves a boy ' s hand being possessed by a demon , causing him to kill his parents and his best friends , and the climax involves the hand going on a bloodthirsty rampage at the high school dance .
being released just ten days after the massacre is often cited as the reason why the horror - comedy film idle hands flopped at the box office . the film ' s plot involves a boy ' s hand being possessed by a demon , causing him to kill his parents and his best friends ; the climax involves the hand going on a bloodthirsty rampage at the high school dance .
although , in a grim irony , the worst - ever us school massacre remains the bombing of an elementary school in bath township , michigan , which happened in 1927 .
at columbine high , harris and klebold were active in school play productions , operated video productions and became computer assistants maintaining the school ' s computer server . [ 2 ]
has a comparatively low rate of gun violence despite gun ownership rates being almost as high as in the us . ( as the saying goes , guns don ' t kill people , people kill people . ) the film ' s general theme is that there are no easy answers for the massacre - - after all , both harris and klebold were bowlers , so
,
time bomb
, centred on a group of just - out - of - high - school boys who talked about doing what the columbine killers tried to do .
the anarchist cookbook was one of harris ' s favorite books . the bombs he and klebold used ( or rather , tried to use ) in the massacre were based on several of the book ' s instructions .
. but many fans of the film feel that lingering squeamishness over the film ' s subject matter—high school kids being forced to kill each other—also played a role in the 13 ( ! ) - year delay .
sociological investigation into the high school subculture was conducted in response to the killings , with the goal of determining what factors led to the event and whether or not future massacres in other schools could be successfully prevented . in the aftermath of the attacks , some north american high school students attended compulsory seminars that encouraged tolerance and condemned bullying . the effectiveness of this on bullying prevention is not clear and investigation indicated that bullying wasn ' t the sole cause of the shootings .
natural born killers , which was already a controversial film due to its violence , received heavier criticism after the massacre . the killers themselves called their rampage
nbk
as a reference to the movie .
had mike teavee—now a video game addict , as opposed to a tv addict in the original—come from suburban denver , colorado . this was possibly a subtle reference to the columbine massacre , particularly the role that
on another episode , lois tells peter to masquerade as a high schooler , and he appears in the kitchen in a trenchcoat holding a gun and saying he wants to get back at the popular kids who ignored him . lois tells peter that he is supposed to be acting like a normal high schooler and he calls someone named
lance
to tell him the plan is off .
the fanfic hit list is a legend of zelda high school au where a group of students , led by ganondorf , plant and detonate bombs around exits in the school and take hundreds of people hostage .
the emogame series makes a number of references to the shooting . in the first game , the hot topic store sells trenchcoat mafia fashion accessories ( including a columbine high t - shirt ) , and both harris and klebold appear in the second game .
the effect of the massacre is also discussed within the film itself . one of the producers of the film within a film stab 3 notes how violence in cinema has become a touchy subject recently , with columbine being the unstated - yet - obvious reason why .
another non - fiction account , dave cullen ' s columbine , details the lives of the two shooters , the massacre itself , and the aftermath . the book is , however , largely seen as biased and inaccurate by many people that have studied the case .
the gunmen left the library at 11 : 36 am . patti nielson , still on the phone with 911 , whispered to the operator that she had to go and then took opportunity to duck into the library ' s break room to hide in a cupboard . library technician carole weld and assistant lois kean hid in the television studio while teacher peggy dodd hid in the periodicals room , where all four remained hidden until the
has a comparatively low rate of gun violence despite gun ownership rates being almost as high as in the united states . ( as the saying goes : guns don ' t kill people , people kill people .
due to massive head injury secondary to a high energy gunshot wound involving the roof of his mouth , consistent with a shotgun . this wound is consistent with self - infliction . [ 15 ]
( about 3 miles from columbine high , between ken caryl and chatfield avenues ) . two backpacks loaded with pipe bombs , aerosol canisters and small propane tanks had been placed in an open grassy space three miles southwest of the high school . only the pipe bombs and one of the aerosol canisters detonated but the explosion and subsequent grass fire were enough to divert the attention of the jefferson county sheriff ' s office and the littleton fire department . police dispatch radioed the event out . (
the emo game series makes a number of references to the shooting . in the first game , the hot topic store sells trenchcoat mafia fashion accessories ( including a columbine high t - shirt ) , and eric harris and dylan klebold appear in the second game .
you might have read about these guys in new jersey who did a satirical movie about the columbine massacre within , like , four months of the event , which is faster than they got the amy fisher movies released .
the nightwish song
the kinslayer
is about the massacre . the lyrics even quote real dialogue between the killers and their victims . the fifteen candles mentioned near the end refer to those who died on that day—four pink ones for the female victims , nine blue ones for the male victims , and two black ones for the killers themselves .
violent video games became one of the most popular scapegoats for the massacre after the media learned that harris and klebold were fans of doom and wolfenstein 3 d . armchair psychologists claimed that the killers had become desensitized to , and obsessed with , realistic violence as a result of playing such games . infamous attorney jack thompson entered the public consciousness as an anti - video game activist because of the massacre , which began a career trajectory that would ultimately lead to his disbarrment . once people learned that harris had made various levels for the game , the media almost immediately began claiming that those levels had been based on columbine high school , with the demons replaced with students and teachers . neither of those claims held true . the most elaborate of the so - called
harris levels
, titled
uac labs
, can be downloaded at urltoken ( third down the list ) alongside commentary on the massacre and its effect on the gaming community .
at the same time the cafeteria was being evacuated , motorcycle patrolman deputy paul smoker was up on west bowles avenue north of columbine high school . hearing the dispatch report about the female down in the south parking lot of the school he radioed that he was responding to the call and headed that way .
kmfdm received a fair share of blame for the massacre , aided by the fact that harris was a fan of their music and posted the lyrics to some of their songs on his website . their album adios was released on the same day as the shooting .
the one - act stage play bang bang you ' re dead , about an imprisoned high school killer who is confronted by the ghosts of his victims , was written before columbine—though it was based on other , pre - columbine school shootings—to raise awareness about school violence . the timeliness of its subject matter caused it to become incredibly popular in the wake of the columbine shooting , with 15 , 000 performances taking place in the three years directly after the massacre . the play was later adapted into a film by the showtime network .
fox re - ran the
viva ned flanders
episode of the simpsons on the same day as the massacre . the episode has homer telling himself that barney ' s birthday is on the same day as adolf hitler ' s—april 20th . all future re - runs of the episode replaced the date with july 15th—the same birthdate as lassie .
an average guy of an estonian high - school decides to defend his bullied classmate . this starts war between him and the informal leader of the class . as teenagers ' honour is a touchy thing , everything ends in bloodshed .
though the satire is broad and corny , at it’s best , duck ! solidly shows the situation from the boys’ point of view . derrick and derwin see themselves romantically , as agents of change striking back at the absurd and oppressive world around them . analyzed in this way , the shootings become at heart a grotesquely exaggerated version of the usual teenage vandalism . who hasn’t fantasized , if only for a moment , about taking a flame - thrower to their high school assembly ? it’s all part of being a teen . some feel that way more than others – guess we’re lucky they don’t have access to a lot of firearms , eh ?
after being mis blamed for the massacre , marilyn manson proceeded to write the album holy wood ( in the shadow of the valley of death ) . most of the lyrics and subject matter were direct responses to columbine , with manson calling it
a declaration of war
on the moral guardians .
ultimately , one of the most popular culprits for the shootings was society in general . for the first time , there was genuine examination and criticism of the social hierarchy of high school—particularly the high status that athletes enjoy within it . schools began to crack down on bullying within their halls , and most people who were of school age soon after columbine will most likely recall all of the assemblies calling for tolerance and respect for fellow classmates . the fact that we still have the popularity food chain shows that such efforts were futile , and 1999 became ancient history for a new generation of high school students who were only in elementary school when the shooting took place . it took another cycle of bullying - related suicides a decade later before people started asking these questions again .
after being mis - blamed for the massacre , marilyn manson wrote the album holy wood in the shadow of the valley of death . most of the lyrics and subject matter were direct responses to columbine , with manson calling it
a declaration of war
on the moral guardians who had blamed him for the shooting .
not directly about the massacre , but
america ' s suitehearts
, a fall out boy song about people getting famous for unsavory things , was written partially in response to the cult of celebrity around the killers that emerged on my space in the early 2000s .
. however , many fans of the film can ' t help but feel that lingering squeamishness regarding the film ' s subject matter ( high school kids being forced to kill each other ) also played a role in the 13 ( ! ) - year delay .
as the cause of such a disaster . did they even think for a second of what it ' s like to be a social outcast in high school ? how the high school social structure can back those who aren ' t
normal
into a corner from which they feel they can ' t escape ? no way . if the media says it ' s movies , videogames , and marilyn manson driving kids to exterminate their classmates , then it must be true !
century part iii of alan moore ' s the league of extraordinary gentlemen features a parody of harry potter where the hero goes crazy and proceeds to massacre his entire supporting cast . the event is presented and compared in - panel to a classic school shooting .
from students and neighbors who lived near the school soon began to flood the dispatch as well as more people became aware that something was not right at columbine . on the police band dispatch informed officers that possible shots had been fired at the high school and that one female was down .
duck ! came out originally in 2000 after the real life columbine high school shootings . the film , supposedly touted as so controversial , it landed it ' s makers in jail , is loosely based on the events that took place in colorado . two young outsiders ( in this case named derwick and derwin instead of eric and dylan ) , grow tired of being picked on and decide to kill their classmates and in the end , themselves . yes , that ' s a gross oversimplification but this isn ' t the forum to rehash all of the outrageous reasons for school shootings , although that is probably one of the only uses for this film . but i ' m getting ahead of myself .
had mike teavee ( now a video game addict , as opposed to a tv addict in the original ) be from suburban denver , colorado . one can ' t help but feel that this was a subtle reference to the columbine massacre , particularly the role that
the plot is pretty much exactly what you might expect from what you know of the real incident . derwin and derick are classmates at carbine high who find themselves ostracized due to their odd appearance , attitude and interests . derick’s miserable home life leaves him distressed and suicidal , while derwin is more sarcastically aloof until he’s beaten terribly by a group of jocks ( and has the word “freak” carved into his stomach ) . using a combination of home - made bombs and purchased guns , the two eventually break into the school ( where at first the students barely notice them ) , before killing a collection of the students in a variety of grisly and bloody ways . as the media circus surrounds the school , the two finish their spree before committing suicide , leaving the survivors to search desperately for meaning .
at about 11 : 10 am eric and dylan -
reb
and
vodka
- arrived at columbine high school . they parked their cars flanking the exits and entrances to the cafeteria : eric parked his 1986 gray honda civic in a parking place in the junior student
and is slightly worse than the real life massacre ( harris and klebold succeed in burning the school down ) , with more media attention put on the killers ' alleged neo - nazi ties due to their acts being seen within the context of a series of far - right terrorist attacks .
the life before her eyes , starring uma thurman and evan rachel wood , is about a woman who survived a columbine - style massacre fifteen years prior and whose present - day life is falling apart due to her survivor guilt .
the life before her eyes , starring uma thurman and evan rachel wood , is about a woman who survived a columbine - style massacre fifteen years prior and whose present - day life is falling apart due to her survivor guilt .
the made - for - tv movie atomic train was not shown in denver out of apparent sympathy for the columbine massacre . the movie had absolutely nothing to do with schools , shootings , or anything like it ; it was a nuclear train , albeit one wherein the inevitable happens near denver .
revenge of the lutefisk ,
which is about the church accidentally being burned down , was scheduled to air on the day of the massacre but was pre - empted in denver by continuing news coverage about columbine . that episode was not shown or rerun for a long time there either .
tangentially related : after columbine , the music video for the song
jeremy
, both of which were based in part on the 1991 suicide of jeremy wade delle and were published years before the columbine massacre , was pulled from rotation on music video stations . the video was already controversial well before columbine , though .
after realizing that their bombs were duds , the killers broke out their guns ( a 9mm carbine and sawed - off pump shotgun for harris , and a tec - 9 and sawed - off double - barrel shotgun for klebold ) and headed to the school ' s west entrance . here , they took off their trenchcoats , killed two students and a teacher , and wounded nine others as they went through the halls . at 11 : 29 , they headed to the library , where the main body of the massacre took place . when they walked in , harris told everybody wearing a white baseball cap — a tradition amongst school athletes — to stand up . harris and klebold then killed ten people and wounded twelve others .
jodi picoult ' s nineteen minutes is the story of a boy who shoots up his high school after being bullied and his crush abandons him to join the in - crowd responsible . at his trial , a psychiatrist cites harris and klebold as an example of school shooters .
emanates the sort of raw filmic energy absent in films 100 times its budget . the necessary recycling of characters and setting , as well as its lo - fi , vhs origins , creates an absolutely singular visual dystopia , communicated in kubrick - esque slow zooms and sluggish , mismatched cutting , as well as the ever - present point of view shot , which manages a similar effect to van sant ' s approach in elephant ( placing us in the shoes of the kids ) . this whole thing should be disgusting , but there ' s a self - awareness to the proceedings that prevents it from slipping into distastefulness - - a reporter comments on the carnage unfolding in carbine high :
it ' s so exciting , i mean tragic ,
she corrects herself . hellfire and smack…
now , it’s in bad taste . in fact , it revels in its bad taste – from the juvenile comedy , to the exaggerated caricatures , to the blaring hardcore soundtrack . but a decade removed from the incident itself , it’s also a remarkably brave and occasionally poignant satire on an event that many americans have never been able to come to terms with . treating an incident that scarred so many like the material for a whacked out troma comedy makes for fascinating and occasionally jaw - dropping viewing , but it’s the quieter moments and smaller decisions that make duck ! so fascinating to watch . using the very combination of pop culture that was blamed for the incident to comment on it , even without any sense of delicacy , puts the film in a class and category high above most of its bad - taste low - budget brethren .
the basketball diaries movie about a hard - luck teen boy with a stunning dream scene of his shooting up his high school class room . was rumored to have inspired the columbine shooters , though there ' s never been proof of this . ( 1995 ) directed by scott kalvert .
saying that she might be paralyzed . deputy paul magor , who was en route to the diversionary explosion at wadsworth , was advised of this by dispatch . deputy gardner heard the dispatched message over the sheriff ' s radio as well and put his lights and sirens on as he headed to columbine high school .
investigation revealed that harris and klebold were only friends with one member of the group , chris morris , and that most of the primary members of the trench coat mafia had left the school by the time that harris and klebold committed the massacre . most did not know the shooters , apart from their association with morris , and none were considered suspects in the shootings or were charged with any involvement in the incident [ 40 ] .
but it’s smack and hellfire’s ability to wring actual emotion out of their scenes together that is the lingering memory of duck ! . the final moments between derick and derwin are horrifying , touching and sad , and the choice to make their eventual suicides messy and visibly painful is a reflection of a film that consistently refuses to take the easy route . the film ends with a series of satirical interviews with surviving characters , parents and other people of interest who seem more interested in their own profile or whether the “big game” is cancelled than the incident that just occurred . again , while it’s hardly subtle that one of the final lines come from a teenager watching the coverage and going “next year we should blow up our high school . we could be on tv . ” , it’s a reflection of a lot of the anger and confusion that was being broadcast at that time .
the harris family lived in rented accommodations for the first three years that they lived in the littleton area . during this time , eric met dylan klebold . in 1996 , the harris family purchased a house south of columbine high school . eric ' s older brother , kevin , attended college at the university of colorado at boulder . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
columbinus ( a play ) play that addresses the bitter reality of high - school pecking orders and the basic human need for social interaction . contains dialog pulled from and inspired by interviews and news about the columbine shootings . play : ( 2005 ) conceived and created by the united states theatre project , written by stephen karam and pj paparelli .
harris and klebold affected u . s . culture in tangible ways . eminem mentioned the shooting in multiple songs from the marshall mathers lp most notably
the way i am .
marilyn manson dubbed them
the nobodies
in his song of that name from his 2000 album holy wood , echoing the reasons the pair gave for their spree in the lyrics . manson & eminem , who were blamed by the media in the wake of the columbine massacre , criticized their coverage of the event respectively with the lines :
the film dawn anna , starring debra winger in the title role , was about the mother of one of the victims of the shooting , detailing her struggles with brain cancer not long after meeting her future husband . after being cured of the disease , her daughter , lauren townsend , is killed in the columbine massacre . yes , it ' s a lifetime movie - - what , are you surprised ?
duck ! ' s story ? simple enough . the film follows the events leading up to the infamous massacre , showing the lives of derwick ( joey smack ) and derwin ( william hellfire ) , as well as the antics of their various two dimensional classmates . our two
stars
spend their days ordering nuclear weapons from china via online retailing , reading hate websites , and putting up with their clueless , self involved parents . one of the more entertaining gimmicks in this film is that all of the parents in the town are played by the same two actors . i suppose this is william hellfire ' s commentary on how all parents are essentially the same in how they treat their kids . as for these in particular , derwin ' s mom is ditzy , his dad is on prozac . derwick ' s parents are equally worthless . they ' re drunks and abusive , and so on .
the 2014 play the erlkings focused on—and was based on the journals and other information from—the killers .
according to early accounts of the shooting , harris and klebold were very unpopular students and frequent targets of bullying at their high school . [ 7 ] harris and klebold were reportedly members of a group that called themselves the
trenchcoat mafia
, although they had no particular connection with the group , and did not appear in a group photo of the trenchcoat mafia in the 1998 columbine yearbook . [ 8 ] harris ' s father stated that his son was
a member of what they call the trenchcoat mafia
in a 911 call he made on april 20 , 1999 . [ 9 ] klebold attended the high school prom three days before the shootings with a classmate named robyn anderson . [ 10 ]
the made - for - tv movie atomic train wasn ' t shown in denver out of apparent sympathy for the columbine massacre . the movie had absolutely nothing to do with schools , shootings , or anything like it , being about , y ' know , a nuclear train , albeit one wherein the inevitable wrong - going happens near denver .
. the massacre was covered on national news as it was happening , in a way that previous ones never were . future school shootings , including those with far greater body counts like virginia tech , sandy hook , and stoneman douglas , would always find themselves in columbine ' s shadow . the
the film dawn anna , starring debra winger in the title role , was about the mother of one of the victims of the shooting ; it detailed her struggles with brain cancer not long after meeting her future husband . after being cured of the disease , her daughter , lauren townsend ( played by a young tatiana maslany ) , is killed in the columbine massacre . are you surprised that it is a lifetime movie ?
episodes which dealt with mental illness , suicide , and death were not rerun on denver - area fox affiliates or syndicated on other area channels for some time after the massacre . these included the
propane boom
two - parter about the mega - lo - mart explosion , hank ' s ensuing fear of propane , and
both diaries make frequent reference to the oklahoma city bombing , the waco siege , and other disasters and massacres , noting how they wished to
outdo
these events . their codename for the massacre was
nbk
—a reference to one of their favorite films , natural born killers , in which the main characters go on a killing spree and become celebrities in the process .
the boondock saints wound up seeing its american theatrical release limited to just five theaters partly as a result of the columbine massacre [ 4 ] , which led him to burn all his bridges with miramax , his distributor . , causing it to become a direct to video film for all intents and purposes .
so , in closing , i admit , with the recent rash of new school shootings , duck ! might serve one purpose - it may get people talking . if it makes you and your friends talk about why these sorts of things happen in our society , then the film ' s worth at least one viewing . i guess that would probably make the filmmakers very happy . but i ' d suggest renting or borrowing the dvd from someone who already has it . i wouldn ' t recommend you spend your hard - earned cash on it .
the original theatrical poster for titan ae had cale tucker running around shooting a laser gun , followed by love interest akima . this was released during the fallout of the massacre , however , and movie studios were facing heavy criticism for violence in films . for the vhs and dvd box art , cale makes the same running pose , but this time shows akima the map with his hand outstretched toward it in place of the gun .
boston public : despite being a series primarily set in a school , this show had only one episode involving a school massacre plot . in that episode , a student ' s notes describing a plan to bomb the school were found , but nothing comes of the plan , nor is it ever mentioned again .
one of the most disturbing trends to happen after the shooting was the draco in leather pants aura that developed around harris and klebold , with many students on the bottom of the high school food chain calling them heroes and martyrs who stood up to the privileged jocks and bullies that ruled high schools across the nation . trenchcoats became a popular fashion accessary among such students , with schools responding by banning them under their dress codes . a series of copycat shootings took place , carried out mostly by people who wanted to get revenge on their classmates and , like harris and klebold , leave their mark on the world . even thirteen years later , a quick search will find a surprisingly large number of tribute sites and videos for
reb and vodka .
meanwhile , dylan crossed the room to the east side of the library where he shot out the trophy case near the door .
[ edit ] the harris levelseric harris created seven known levels for the computer game doom ( known as wads ) , and purportedly for the game quake . the largest and most popular level is called u . a . c . labs , and is still available for download . [ 49 ] [ 50 ] some of the harris level packs have graphical modifications that enhance the violent content of the game . the levels were not meant to be recreations of the interior of columbine high school as often rumored .
focuses on two high school outcasts : derwin ( william hellfire ) and derrick ( joey smack ) , who wear black trench coats every day just like the trench coat mafia implicated in the real - life incident . virtually every other character in the movie is a stereotype : there are the bullying jocks , a couple of friendless gothic kids , the jesus - loving christian girl , the wheelchair - bound retard , and the i - hate - everyone black kid .
the nightwish song
the kinslayer
is about the incident . the lyrics even quote real dialogue between the killers and their victims .
early speculation said a third man had been involved in the shootings , based on reports that a strange man had been seen on the roof on the school ( he was a repairman who had locked himself up on the roof after he heard gunshots ) . others claimed that the two killers could not have hauled all of the bombs into the cafeteria by themselves . all known evidence points to harris and klebold as the only culprits behind the massacre , but this has not stopped countless conspiracy theorists from speculating otherwise .
once the officers were able to get the terrified survivors out , they were all searched and then evacuated in groups of 10 . despite having been searched and cleared , the victims were told to keep their hands on their heads as they were hustled out of the damaged school . the news footage of the sight of kids being herded like prisoners out a broken window and past the bodies of rachel and danny was the first scene many would see of the shootings at columbine high as news crews were live and rolling by that time .
he also sharply criticizes the american media for doing nothing but broadcasting sensationalized stories and ramping up national paranoia and fear to the point where , rather than being a warning sign screaming for societal re - address , the massacre fuelled terror and finger - pointing by moral guardians that wouldn ' t be seen again until 9 / 11 made terror into a war .
by that time the other team had cleared the southeast section of columbine . williams ' group moved from the cafeteria to the second level of the of the school .
christian weston chandler—yes , chris - chan —shoots up his high school in midlothian , virginia , killing eighteen classmates ( fourteen of them female ) and three faculty members , one of whom was shonda rhimes ( her hollywood career fizzled out in polly ' s world and she became an english teacher ) .
he also sharply criticizes the american media for doing nothing but broadcasting sensationalized stories and ramping up national paranoia and fear to the point where , rather than the columbine massacre being a warning sign screaming for societal re - address , it fueled terror and finger - pointing by moral guardians that wouldn ' t be seen again until 9 / 11 made terror into a war .
boston public : surprisingly enough , despite being a series primarily set in a school , this show has had only one episode involving a school massacre plot . in one episode , a student ' s notes describing a plan to bomb the school were found , but nothing actually happens nor does this get mentioned again .
the one - act stage play bang bang you ' re dead , about an imprisoned high school killer who is confronted by the ghosts of his victims , was actually written before columbine ( although based on other school shootings ) to raise awareness about school violence . however , the timeliness of its subject matter caused it to become incredibly popular , being performed 15 , 000 times in the three years after columbine . the play was later adapted into a film by the showtime network .