blknwite at 2014-07-13 12:23:24:

Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Written by John Logan Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim http://youtu.be/__rTkMv-xkE?t=1m27s (uber orgasmic revenge) JUDGE (blissful) Ohhhhhhh, Pretty women! TODD Pretty women, yes... JUDGE (straightening his coat) Quickly, sir, a splash of bay rum! TODD Sit, sir, sit. JUDGE (settling into chair, in lecherous rapture) Johanna, Johanna... Todd gets a towel, puts it carefully around the Judge, moves to get a bottle of bay rum-- TODD Pretty women... JUDGE Hurry, man! TODD Pretty women Are a wonder... JUDGE You're in a merry mood again today, barber. TODD (joyfully) Pretty women! JUDGE What we do for They sing simultaneously as Todd smoothes bay rum on the Judge's face and then reaches for his razor: JUDGE Pretty women! Blowing out their candles Combing out their hair-- Then they leave-- Even when they leave you And vanish, they somehow Can still remain There with you there... TODD Pretty women! Blowing out their candles Or combing out their hair, Even when they leave, They still Are there, They're there... The music builds dangerously as: JUDGE How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit! TODD With fellow tastes -- in women, at least. JUDGE What? What's that? TODD The years no doubt have changed me, sir. But then, I suppose the face of a barber -- the face of a prisoner in the dock -- is not particularly memorable. JUDGE (a horrified realization) Benjamin Barker! TODD BENJAMIN BARKER! The factory whistle screams a steady, terrible blast as-- Todd brutally SLASHES the Judge's throat-- Severing his jugular-- The spray of blood drenches Todd-- He pulls the lever and sends the body tumbling out of sight down the chute. The music continues... As Todd stands for a long moment, blood dripping from his face, exalted. Then he sinks to his knees, overcome. The music stops. A long beat of silence. Then Todd looks at his razor deeply: TODD Rest now, my friend, Rest now forever, Sleep now the untroubled Sleep of the angels. Then silence as he reverently sets the razor on the floor and looks at it. We focus on his face. His quest is completed. His demons silenced. The ghosts are gone.

noirdreams1941 at 2014-07-15 19:28:22:

Theme: revenge Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan INT. ROCKY CAVERN KIRK: Khan, you have Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Khan. You're going to have to come down. You're going to have to come here! INT. RELIANT BRIDGE KHAN: I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you, as you left me -- as you left her: marooned for eternity in the centre of a dead planet -- buried alive. KIRK: Khan -- ! Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP477tkdJ4E Khan may have been thwarted this time but his response ratchets up his malevolence and commitment to seeking-‘n’-destroying Kirk. In the TV series Kirk had gone through all manner of moods, in battle, in different dimensions, intoxicated, but the much-lampooned “Khhaaaaan!” burst of rage and frustration is a great emotional punctation at the end of the scene. It ramps up the stakes and showed that our hero, tired, feeling old (we didn’t know then that umpteen sequels would follow), having just met up with his old flame and nearly decked his estranged son, with an intellectually and physically superior ghost from his past hunting him down, was emotionally nearing the ropes at that point. The locations help accentuate this: Kirk and co are subterranean and hunkered down, Khan’s scooting around the planet in control of a pirated spaceship. (And I still like it a whole lot better than the riff/rip-off switcheroo at the end of Into Darkness.) Khan wants to punish Kirk for marooning him, for marooning Khan’s beloved wife and tribal family. This echoes Kirk’s own ‘marooning’ of his son David and Carol Marcus, David’s mother and how Kirk was feeling marooned from his old post and the Enterprise at the beginning of the film.