Chilling with a shotgun in Four Brothers
This has got to be one of my favourite moments in movie history(I will explain it later). It’s in a similar vain to the scene in Ali where he is shouting “The champ is here! The champ is here!” I regularly watch DVD’s with Mark Wahlberg in them because he IS my hero. I never looked up to firemen and Super Man and Spider Man and all that when I was a kid. I never had a hero as a child. I thought it was childish. But now that I have aged a bit(And I have aged quite well) I have come to look up to a certain Mark Wahlberg, the worlds most hardcore actor. The first time I saw him was in Boogie Nights, which you have to see! It’s hilarious because he is a porn star and they do some mad stuff. And Marks name in the film was Dirk Diggler, which is still funny all these years later! One of the funnier scenes is when a couple of people are doing cocaine, and the one guy looks up and says something like this:
“I can’t feel my face. I mean, I can touch it, but I can’t feel it”
You might be interested to know that Leonardo DiCaprio declined the role of Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, rather favouring a little film called Titanic. Something about a big ship sinking.
Your Editor in a similiar pose.
Anyway, that’s where I first noticed Mark Wahlberg. Then over the years he has made a couple more appearances and to me he just gets better. We saw him in The Departed and even Rock Star a while back. His tough guy roles have also been seen in Four Brothers and Shooter, which is a seriously cool movie! In Shooter Mark Wahlberg takes on a whole police force and wins. As he always does!
Jerry D actually called me the other day from his office/ bar/ bistro/ lounge/ mixing decks and while he was on the phone he said he was ordering Shooter on Kalahari.net So what do you know? I told him to order me one while he was at it. I’m expecting it this week! This is not a movie you want to hire. You want to own it. I should have ordered another copy so I can eat it.
So the scene in Four Brothers goes like this:
All these guys are out in the middle of nowhere, in the snow, on some sort of frozen lake. They have all decided to turn on their leader, Victor Sweet, and he finds himself surrounded by his whole crew. Acting all tough he starts shouting the following:
“Come on now who’s gonna do it, huh? Who the man here… huh? Which one of you tough guys gonna do it? Whose gonna take on the champ!? You Charlie?!”
Then, as if by some sort of miracle, the camera looks far down into the snow and out of nowhere… MARKY MARK walks up! But literally out of nowhere. He walks right through a blizzard and you can see the snow twirling around him as he walks up.
He is cruising in a long top and some sort of coat with a fur lined neck! He has this smug grin on his face because he knows he has just pulled a trick like Horatio Caine from CSI, where he appears out of nowhere. Where did he come from? He has no car and if you look at it, he has done the impossible by walking this far in the snow!
I bet you that in a million years Victor Sweet never thought that Marky Mark would arrive! To be honest, if I was acting like a tough guy asking who was going to take me on, and Marky Mark walked up out of a blizzard, I would start running.
He is one of the biggest guys I have seen acting in a while. He has these two huge guns just waiting to hit anyone who gets in the way. I think this is due to him being a Calvin Klein underwear model all those years ago, before he became a top class actor. Now he has bulked up a lot more and he is just mean. You have to watch Four Brothers, you might enjoy it.
I decided to recreate his pose in the above photo. Obviously I’m a little bit smaller, but I think we all forget Fight Club. I’m RIPPED like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. I’m joking, but I wouldn’t mind being like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. His weight in that film was about the same as I am now, so there is a chance you will be seeing me in a basement somewhere below a diner saying to a crowd of sweaty guys “Gentleman. Welcome to Fight Club” Or you might find me selling soap at the Constantia craft market.
Let’s be honest, stranger things have happened so there is a chance.
Chicks dig it.
Mark Wahlberg has lived the dream. He is living the dream. You don’t just become a Calvin Klein underwear model, you don’t just become one of the greatest actors, and you don’t just earn the reputation he has by being average.
He is way too cool.
Sean Lloyd
Editor
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