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August 27, 2004

The Johnson Supremacy

One of the reasons that I liked the movie The Bourne Supremacy (and the first movie) was that throughout the film the main character was always grabbing maps and charts of the city that he was in or the building that he was being chased around. This just seems to add an element of believability or realism to a wild story.

It also suggests that I could do the things that Jason Bourne does even though I lack a good sense of direction. This feeling that “I could do that” is vital to drag me into an action movie.

I want the movie to make me feel like I can learn Kung Foo in a matter of seconds and then fly through the air moving faster then anyone has ever seen, or rally an army of my countrymen to “not trade all the days from this day ‘til that to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our FREEDOM!” or to drive really fast on the opposite side of the road swerving to avoid the inevitable oncoming traffic while shooting with deadly aim at the also inevitable superhuman cops on cool BMW motorcycles that come blaring off of side streets and almost land on top of my car.

I like to think that I have the courage, the intelligence, and the physical aptitude to at least be trained to live the life of an action movie star like Neo, William Wallace or Jason Bourne.

Man that would be just plain cool.

Actually I feel a little like that right now, sitting at a computer in the basement of the University of Wisconsin. I “hacked” (using my woman partner’s information) into computer “LAB-OL1108-40” in the middle of the lab where no surveillance cameras can see me.

I checked a map so that later I can take my borrowed truck disguised with trailer on a careening chase across the metropolis to pick up some goods. I need to do this all before a certain time so that I can meet my female agent partner to deliver the goods as she is working undercover.

Yeah, that makes me feel like an action movie star. Even though I didn’t really hack in, am in full view of all cameras, I did borrow the truck but its slow, I am going to McDonalds a mile away to get lunch for my wife who has to sit through a student teaching seminar and meet her back outside the auditorium.

Yeah… action hero… ahh…that’s me… I can feel it.

Man I could just tear someone apart if they attacked me right now.

All that stuff makes me feel cool.

That and I just had to shoot the computer lab aid with the silenced 9mm that I took from the unconscious security guard, all because he was about to press the big red alarm button behind his desk.
Ok. Not really. But I’m still cool…

Yeah. Action. Cool. Leather Jacket. Sweet Shades.

I can almost hear the theme music…

do-do-bap-bap-bababa-tititctctc-dadaDADA….

Posted by paul at August 27, 2004 09:14 AM

Comments

I was thinking along the same lines this morning as we were learning how to force someone to keep their grip on you as you ease them to the ground, with their arm locked in a painful pin.

Posted by: matt at August 27, 2004 10:10 AM

This post is great. I do the same thing. Except I really kick people, and shoot them.....with a camera...

Posted by: greg at August 31, 2004 09:34 PM

thanks guys I had fun writing this.

Posted by: paul at September 1, 2004 08:27 AM

This is a great post, Paul. I love this stuff. Matt H. and I were just talking about our favorite superheroes yesterday. We tend to like the more believable ones, rather than superman (being an alien and all).
I daydream about saving the day more than anything else. Usually I'm in fatigues taking a hill with a company of soldiers behind me.
Other than the actual military, being a saint in the King's army is the next best thing to living out heroic deeds.

Posted by: Tim at September 2, 2004 10:39 AM

I just read you email on Miller's speech.
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/september/0902_miller_full_speech.shtml
Makes me want to be a soldier and protect our freedoms.

Posted by: paul at September 2, 2004 09:48 PM