Harsh Times with Norman Jay
Published by cian September 2nd, 2006 in G Funk and RULES OF COMING ATTRACTIONS. Tags: cian, movies, music.versus Not so Good Times with Christian Bale.
Not sure how this film would have turned out if it had starred Norman Jay MBE rolling in South Central, capping gang-bangers and sipping on 40s. On the flip side, Mr Intensity himself Christian Bale doing Norm’s set at the Big Chill festival is something I could imagine going a poco loco. Comes on stage in a slim cut gray Hugo Boss 3 piece, he does 1000 stomach crunches, puts on Phil Collins ‘Invisible Touch’ (an epic meditation on intangibility) and then throws a running petrol chainsaw into the crowd. He probably misread the invite as the Big Kill.
Bales loses his head
Does he know what’s on his head?
Back to Mr Bale’s finest performance to date…
Harsh Times presents Bale in the role he does best - damaged, edgey, ‘almost, almost, oh shit he’s gone over the edge’ all-american psycho. Ex-gulf war vet (Jim) he’s determined on self-destruction and taking down his buddy Mikey in the process. Drink-driving round LA looking for work but spending more time smoking, shooting and seeing people getting sliced up, Jim and Mikey seem on a collision course with a messy end. Directed by Teacher Training Day writer, David Ayer, it follows a similar format to his previous film but it’s Bale’s unbelievable performance that makes it a winner. Bale is getting better and better with each film and I’m looking forward to seeing him magic it out versus Mr Jackman in The Prestige and Mr Ledger in ‘The Dark Knight’.
8 cian’s out of 10.
Click the poster for the trailer and see Bale in action.
Or better yet…Good Time! with J.J. ‘Dy-No-Mite’ Walker…
JJ Walker? The Jimmie Walker referenced in Eddie Murphy Raw?
“Who you have a fight with? What? A disco? With Deney Terrio? What the fuck you doing with Deney Terrio? And Jimmie Walker? And your lips? And you shot…
What? Lillian, Eddie had a fight in a disco with Deney Terrio and shot Jimmie Walker. He shot him in the lips, Lil.
Eddie, why’d you shoot Jimmie Walker in his lips? I like Good Times. Oh, you took a shot in your lips and you look like Jimmie Walker? Oh, that’d do it”
That’s the man. Also referenced by the Beastie Boys on Pass The Mic:
So, What You Sayin’? I Explode On Site
I’m Like Jimmy Walker I’m Dynomite
Who’s Country Mike?
I’m Country Mike
I think an article of the marginality of Beastie Boy lyrics is in the pipeline.
“We’re just 3 M.C.’s and we’re on the go
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego”
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego appear in the 3rd chapter of “Daniel” in the Bible. Refusing to worship a golden idol, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are thrown into a furnace by the king of Babylon, where they are unharmed for their unwavering faith in their god. As a result, the king declares the entire kingdom worship the Jewish god.
My god.