This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.
Movies with actors doing Russian Things:
- Vanessa Angel from Spies Like Us
- Viggo Mortenson from that one killer movie, Eastern Promises
- Everyone in White Nights. Even Gregory Hines, a defector from the U.S. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini
- Salt – Angelina Jolie
Red Sparrow and the Me Too moment a lot of us missed. – SCOOP DU JOUR
Red Sparrow is a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, about a young ballerina recruited into an elite organization of spies who use sex, not guns as a weapons to infiltrate organizations, obtain information, and possibly kill dangerous targets. Lawrence takes control of a certain narrative within this film and heroically robs would-be voyeuristic fanatics — those obsessed about her nude scene — with a moment that rather than sexualize the character, showcases Sparrows strength and mental fortitude.
Stereotypes
It’s easy to categorize someone or stigmatize an entire race or culture, but seldom are these attributes ever defining of the people as a whole. Russian get a bad rap for their genetic link to the Slavic eastern nations.
Are they an evil race of humans hellbent on destroying the world?
If you ask an eight-year-old me in the eighties after a classroom bomb drill, yes. Ask me today, yes. However, I understand better the motives to which drives people to do horrific things. Doesn’t make them acceptable. I know that not every Russian born wants me as an American dead, but I also know that I wouldn’t want to me on the bad side of the Kremlin without some James Bond or Tom Clancy, like, badass-s
THIS, THAT, AND OTHER NEWS
- The case of Sergei and Anna Chapman.
- Maria Butina who sales couches and US gun toting charm.
- This guy fakes his own death to elude an assassination plot.
- Sex coaches offer up the goods, America doesn’t bite.
- The Cold War scare. Even in the early
eighties we had to prepare for a potential bomb scare/ nuclear fallout. Duck and cover
Weekly Gratitude :
Bombs don’t reach
Links Mentioned in The Show:
- Russian journalist shot death in front of home.
- Sike! Russian journalist still alive.
- More into the fake murder of Arkady Babchenko.
- A History of Violence and Poison
- Anastasia Vashukevich has a secret she wants to tell the U.S. only if they offer her asylum.
- Anastasia Vashukevich and Trump connections.
- Anastasia Vashukevich bluffed too early in the game and now she’s on trial in Thailand for her part in an illegal sex ring.
- I don’t know about you but Anastasia Vashukevich looks like she’s been drugged.
- Swapping spies Anna Chapman and Sergei Skripal.
- I don’t know about you but Anastasia Vashukevich looks like she’s been drugged.
- Sergei Skripal and daughter poisoned.
We’re always open for suggestions and/or a favorable comment.