In honor of Mecca Lecca below is a clip of Christopher Paul Stelling performing "Flawless Executioner" live at the Kensington Stables in Brooklyn. Enjoy!
Continuing on with the theme of bin Laden's death....
In my last blog post dealing with the subject of bin Laden's death I admitted that I stood up and cheered after President Obama's announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed. Well after reading the account of what the The Navy Seals (who are true heroes for what they did) did during the raid, I got this vision in my head of the raid scene in the movie they are about to make on this very subject you so know there are tons in the works.
Myfilm about the raid that killed bin Laden would be smartly done and directed by someone like Kathryn Bigelow, Steven Soderbergh or Christopher Nolan and the plot would focus on the intelligence aspect of the hunt for bin Laden and end with the raid. The ending raid scene wouldn't be done like a Jerry Bruckheimer cheesy action scene it would be more like a scene from the "Hurt Locker" true to life and intense.
And the Navy Seals who took part in the raid would be played by; George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Remer, Matt Damon, the really hot British dude from "Inception", the Aussie dude who played the lead in "Avatar", Christian Bale and Don Cheadle. Michelle Rodriquez would be the tough female Navy seal and Jeff Bridges would play the older worldly experienced senior member of the Navy Seals.
The rest of the cast would be Alec Baldwin as either a senior CIA agent or a Senator involved in the hunt for bin Laden who brings the group of Navy Seals together, Naomi Watts or Julia Roberts would play a CIA agent also involved in the hunt for bin Laden, Ellen Barkin would play a Senator or another CIA agent, Annette Benning would play Hilary Clinton and Dennis Hasbert would play President Obama.
That's my cast for my film based on the bin Laden raid.
This song by the Prodigy would choreograph the raid, that's only cheesy Jerry Bruckheimeresq aspect the film would have to it!
And "Treat Me Like Your Mother" by the Dead Weather would also have to be played in my bin Laden raid film. The scene this song would be used is when the Navy Seals team comes together and bonds over past missions and comrades lost in an exotic USO type bar in Afghanistan. The song would play underneath the banter.
And then after the raid scene is over and our heroes are walking away from the bin Laden compound in slow motion back to the helicopters and the credits roll "Dig Down Deep" by Vandaveer would play. Video clip below.
My bin Laden raid film would be a combination of "The Hurt Locker", "The Dirty Dozen" and "Syriana"
Every once in a while I blog about the state of the world outside of music and give my two cents, well today is going to be one of those blog posts. I'm sure as all of you know notorious al Qaeda leader and the master mind behind 9/11 Osama bin Laden was killed last night by US special forces. While I think bin Laden was pure evil and I'm glad he is dead, I kind of met the news of his death with concern about the future. That concern made me not want to take to the streets to chant U-S-A.
All though I will admit that after watching President Obama's speech announcing bin Laden's death I did cheer. It is so nice to finally have a President who is true statesman and didn't announce bin Laden's death while trying to fufill a John Wayne type of fantasy on an Navy aircraft carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner hanging behind him. I digress..
And in terms of all the people who took to the streets last night to celebrate bin Laden's death, it reminded me of the clips we all see on the news of the extremists in the Middle East celebrating each time an American is killed in that region. To me the celebrating of the death of bin Laden made us look no better then the Middle Eastern extremists and brought us down to their level.
Salon posted a really interesting opinion piece on the bin Laden death celebrations, you can check that out here.
*stepping off my soap box and getting back to the music*
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