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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2005
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY MARK VEIRTHALER editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Welcome to Action Movies 101. Today, we will teach you the proper mix of ingredients to make your own thrilling action movie.
First, take one protagonist that is seemingly incongruous with an action role. Skinny Englishmen work wonderfully for this part. Add three parts shaky
camera work,
one part vertigo and mix well.
Pepper liberally with caricatured antagonists and one scantily clad, yet deadly, woman. Bake 88 minutes.
Congratulations, you have
just made "The Transporter 2."
In the sequel to 2002's "The Transporter," Jason Statham reprises his role as Frank Porter, the no-nonsense, ass-kicking Englishman.
Porter is an ex-special agent, turned driver-for-hire. In what seems like a lull in his career, he has taken on the job as chauffeur for a rich couple's six-year-old. Armed only with his two fists and a seemingly indestructible Audi A8 W12, he sets out to rescue the kidnapped child after a mysterious abduction — and, as is the action standard, to save the world from a deadly virus.
quandaries. The plot takes a back seat to the action sequences and the emphasis is on the wanton violence inherent in action films, which is how things should be in this type of movie.
The original movie garnered attention for its slick, choreographed chase scenes and its mix of blazing gunfire with "chop-socky" fighting. The sophomore trip around the block hits the mark.
Don't come to this movie looking for deep philosophical quandaries.
The sequel is almost Bond-
Too often action films are bogged down with clumsy story lines coupled with poorly executed plot twists. You come to "The Transporter 2" expecting car chases and ass kicking. You leave satisfied.
Don't come to this movie looking for deep philosophical
amost Bondesque in its straight-forwardness, which is one of the reasons it succeeds. Statham plays a more hands-on type of hero than the Bond characters, managing to
beat the snot out of several hundred henchmen without firing a single shot from a gun.
You have your standard James Bond formula working overtime. There are the over-the-top villains with foreign accents, the legions of henchman that come out of the woodwork for fist fights, the deadly woman with a violent sex drive to boot and the foreign friend who's pigeon-holed into the role of comic relief. Fans of the original won't be disappointed. It serves its purpose as an action movie and makes no qualms about it.
If you're looking to work your brain, this isn't the film for you. If you want an intense, often funny, never heavy movie, this is definitely worth a look-see this weekend. But be sure to pack the Dramamine.
Edited by Patrick Ross
Group to stress freedoms
ANNIVERSARY
9/11 tribute will remember rights
BY GABY SOUZA
gousa@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
A group of University of Kansas graduate students is organizing an event to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11.
The event, called the September Project, will feature panel discussions and the showing of the movie, "A Day Without a Mexican." It will take place from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
"This is a positive event for
the city of Lawrence," said Shannon Portillo, Shawnee graduate student and one of the organizers of the event.
The September Project, which was started by a library at Washington State University, encourages libraries worldwide to sponsor events concerning freedom and democracy on or around Sept. 11.
The University of Kansas hosted the Project last year, which was the first year Lawrence participated in the event.
"We're pretty excited," said Michael Sweeney, Overland
Park graduate student and an event organizer. "We've been able to expand quite a bit."
Portillo said the event was moved to the public library this year to include members of the Lawrence community.
Maria Butler, community relations coordinator for the Lawrence Public Library, said she had heard quite a bit of interest about it from the library patrons.
Portillo said about 50 students attended the event last year. This year, the organizers hope to triple that number, Portillo said.
"This will blend students with the community and get the community involved," Portillo said.
The panel discussions will feature religion, the ways people interact with their communities, international perspectives and civil rights and immigration.
Experts on the respective topics will open the discussions. Five international students from the University who represent five different conti nents will lead the discussion involving the international perspectives. The film "A Day Without a Mexican" will precede a discussion about civil rights and immigration.
"There's a good variety of interesting topics," Butler said.
Reaching out to family
— Edited by Patrick Ross
Chris Polk/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ellen DeGeneres welcomes her aunt, Helen Currie, of Pass Christian, Miss., during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Currie lost her home and every thing she owned to Hurricane Katrina.
CAMPUS
Band position not likely to change
Runs on the east side of Memorial Stadium unable to hear the marching band at the Florida Atlantic game may have difficulty hearing the band all season.
Band and athletics department officials said there were no simple solutions to the problem of fans hearing the marching band at football games.
"Short of micing and sepa rate speakers, there's not a whole lot that can be done,"
said James Hudson, marching band director.
A report done by the athletics department said the bowl was the best place for the band in terms of acoustics, Hudson said.
While fans on the east side of Memorial Stadium had difficulty hearing the band, Hudson said he heard from fans on the west side who said that they could hear the band clearly.Those seated on the west side said that they had difficulty hearing the band last year, when they were seated near midfield.
"In a perfect world, they'd be in the center of the bowl."
said Brandon Macneill, associate athletics director. "But we'd like for them to have better seats than that."
Macneill said that while some on the east side of the stadium may not be able to hear the band clearly, that number would be lower than those who could not hear the band last season.
Broadcasting the band through the speaker system at the stadium was not an option because of a time delay, Hudson said.
Hudson said the new seats in the north bowl served as a more practical location for the band. The new seats allowed
the band to move quickly from their seats because they now have two sections to exit for halftime. The band now sits in sections 32 and 33.
Hudson also dismissed the rumor that the full band was not present at the Florida Atlantic game.
— Ryan Schneider
Stadium gates open only to students
Gates 29 and 30 at Memorial Stadium will be designated for student entrance only starting this weekend.
At those gates, there will be
eight entrances for students compared with the six entrances open last weekend. There will also be extra staff on hand to expedite students' entrance into the stadium, said Brandon Macneill, associate athletics director.
Numerous students said they waited in long lines to enter the stadium before the Florida Atlantic game. It was the first game for the new student seating near the north bowl. Last weekend, both students and reserved-seat ticket holders were allowed to use the same entrances.
was some first game jitters, growing pains," Macneill said. "We hope that we have the solution."
"We acknowledge there
Despite the additional entrances, Macneill encouraged students to enter the stadium as early as possible to help avoid lines.
Student seating at football games was shifted before the season to separate the visiting and student sections, which were next to each other in previous seasons. The student entrance was also moved from numerous gates at the southeast corner to entrances in the north bowl.
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