i just finished watching this movie called Revolver. i saw it while i was browsing at blockbuster two days ago. it came out in 2005 and i can’t believe i’ve never heard of it. jason statham was on the cover and i’ve loved all of his movies so far so i thought i’d give this one a shot and see how it goes. man. this movie was. good. damn good. i meant it was confusing at first, but i’ve watched it twice already and i finally got it. it’s a great movie and i really recommend it. you really have to pay attention to the CHARACTERS, not the story or plot, but the characters. anyway, here’s some stuff they used in the opening credits and throughout the movie:
“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.” - Julius Caesar, 75 BC
“The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.” - Fundamentals of Chess, 1885
“First rule of business: protect your investment.” - Etiquette of the Banker, 1775
“There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.” - Niccolo Machiavelli 1502″
“The only real enemy to have ever existed is an eternal one.” - The Road to Suicide, pg1 line 1
“Your friends are close, but your enemy is closer.” - The Road to Suicide, pg1 line 2
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here’s some cool stuff jason statham’s character said in the movie:
“the harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”
“When you’re winning, who thinks about losing?”
“Rule one: you only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.”
(While playing chess) “The art is for me to feed pieces to you and make you believe that you took those pieces because you’re smarter and I’m dumber.”
“in every game and con, there is always an opponent, there is always the victim. The trick is to know when you’re the latter so you can become the former. The more control the victim thinks he has, the less control he actually has. Gradually, he will hang himself. i as the opponent just help him along.”
“Rule number two: the more sophisticated the game, the more sophisticated the opponent. if the opponent is very good he will place his victim inside an environment he can control. The bigger the environment, the easier the control.”
“He’ll toss the dog a bone, find their weakness, give ‘em just a little of what they think they want. So the opponent simply distracts their victim by getting them consumed with their own consumption.”
“The bigger the trick and older the trick, the easier it is to pull based on two principles– they think it can’t be that old, and they think it can’t be that big for so many people to have fallen for it. Eventually, when the opponent is challenged or questioned, it means the victim’s investment, and thus his intelligence is questioned. No one can accept that…not even to themselves.”
“There is something about yourself that you don’t know, something that you will deny even exists until it’s too late to do anything about it.”
“It’s the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please think I’m special. We share an addiction. We’re approval junkies. We’re all in it for the slap on the back, and the gold watch, the hip, hip, hoo-fucking-rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on, you crazy diamond…because we’re just monkeys wrapped in suits begging for the approval of others. If we knew this, we wouldn’t do this. Someone is hiding it from us.”
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Here’s some they used in the ending credits. These were spoken by guys with PhDs and stuff like that:
“The ego is the worst confidence trickster we could ever figure, we could ever imagine. ‘Cause you don’t see it.” - Dr. Yoav Dattilo, PhD
“And the single biggest con is, ‘I am you.’” - Dr. Steven C. Hayes, PhD
“The problem is that the ego hides in the last place you’d ever look– within itself.”
“In creating this imaginary external enemy, it usually made a real enemy for ourselves, and that becomes a real danger to the ego but that’s also the ego’s creation.”
“In that sense, you could say that 100 percent of our external enemies are of our own creation.” - Dr. Peter Fonagy, PhD
“It disguises its thoughts as your thoughts, its feelings as your feelings. You think it’s you.”
“People have no clue that they’re imprisoned. They don’t know that there is an ego. They don’t know the distinction.” - Leonard Jacobson
“Peoples’ need to protect their own egos knows no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, kill, do whatever it takes, to maintain what we call ego boundaries.” - Andrew Samuels, PhD
“At first, it’s difficult for the mind to accept that there’s some–something beyond itself, that there’s something of greater value and greater capacity for discerning truth than itself.” - Dr. David Hawkins, MD PhD
“In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you can blame someone else.”
“There is no such thing as an external enemy, no matter what that voice in your head is telling you. All perception of an enemy is a projection of the ego as the enemy.” - Dr. Deepak Chopra MD
“Your greatest enemy is your own inner perception, is your own ignorance, is your own ego.” Dr. Obadiah S. Harris, PhD
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that last bit was the all of the things those people said during the ending credits. i found them all to be very interesting and intriguing and i just had to share it to everyone.
anyways, it took me a while to type all these up and my hands are hurting now lol. my right hand hasn’t fully healed yet, it still hurts a bit when i type to fast or play badminton. it didn’t help that i played 5 straight singles games with adam but i didn’t feel any pain until after i walked back to the parking lot.
so yeah, just some interesting stuff up there. gives you things to think about for yourself about yourself. go watch the movie, it would make more sense. once again, pay attention to the characters, not so much to the story.
`night.
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