Bryan Mills is a Preventer

[luel_exana]

Okay, so somebody in Hollywood watched too much Gundam Wing and decided to make a movie based on Heero Yuy's post-war life. No, I'm not kidding you. The movie I'm talking about is "Taken", and the similarities between Heero and the protagonist of that movie are... eerie. Besides the guy having short, spiky brown hair and blue eyes, crazy attention

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[hyper_roo]

I never thought of it like that! Like how Firefly is eerily similar to Outlaw Star.

[luel_exana]

You know, I never watched enough Outlaw Star to catch that similarity... but considering both shows have naked girls coming out of stasis boxes within the first episode... Yeah, I can see it.

[askerian]

... okay i need to watch that one now.

[luel_exana]

Yes, yes you do. If just for the glorious, glorious ways he takes out guys. His fighting is very... practical.

[bloody_winged]

OMG, that sounds awesome! *-* I think that actually is a movie that I need to watch XD (I'm not all that big on movies ^^;;;) A movie with Heero... yummi! :D (only sadness that there is no Duo T_T How can they dare to separate the two of them? Oh well... luckily I like Relena too, even if by far not as much as Duo XD)

[luel_exana]

Yes, yes you DO need to watch it. I'm not big on movies either, but I really liked that one. And his wife isn't Relena exactly, but she's prim and proper enough that you can see the parallels if you want to. haha
There's this one guy he works with the main character that's somewhat like Duo, since he's a wise-ass and teases the main character every minute he's on screen. He even calls him "Rambo" once. But the guy is in the movie for a grand total of a minute and a half, so I don't know if he qualifies enough to be Duo. XD;

[thegrandepoobah]

As it happens I watched Taken with a friend yesterday. Neither of us is familiar with GW, but it was interesting reading your take on this.

Spoiler alert for those who've not seen it...

My minor gripes are that he somehow produces an IV bag and later a fake police ID without us having seen him acquire them. Perhaps they issue these at customs when you enter France? Just thought that a minute of extra footage that explains their appearances would make for a more sensible flow. It was a decent movie though. Not superb, but good. Though no mention of the kidnapped friend at the end was kind of odd. Yay I'm rescued... too bad about my best friend though.

[luel_exana]

The police ID he actually stole from his desk jockey friend when he went over for dinner. There's a quick shot of it where you can see the original photo on the ID after the bad guys take his photo out, and it's his friend's hair. As for the IV bag... well, he had a briefcase with a voice recorder on hand to record his daughter getting kidnapped. After that, I sort of assumed that he was paranoid enough to carry things like that around. Or he stole it from a hospital, you know him. Considering he was going to retrieve his daughter from a place that drugged up girls, I can see him preparing it ahead of time

[light_eater]

...wouldn't the daughter have already cried for her friend before the father found her? By the time the father found her, wouldn't she have already been quite resigned to her fate? I mean, she should have little hope left. She has NO idea that her dad is Heero. By the time the father finds her, she is just happy to be out of there one her own...PLUS if YOU ever got me into that kind of crap (the way the friend did), and then you died, and then I thought I was doomed to be a prostitue forever...I am SURE I would be more mad at your stupidity than sad at your death...IF you were that type of friend...but that may be due to my highly unsocial nature. Ahem...and I'm glad you liked the movie so much. I will be sure to recommend other ones to you. (yes, I'm also replying MANY days late because I've been away from internet)

[luel_exana]

But see, that girl is nothing LIKE you. She wouldn't be nearly as practical in her thinking. ;P (I also resent the suggestion that *I* would be getting you into any sort of trouble of that nature

[salamandere]

someone had mentioned that Taken was practically post-war Heero, and i was interested, but you really hooked me. Now I have to see this! I don't go to the movies often, but i'm probably going to make an exception. ;p let's be honest, i'll do a lot to see a Heero Yuy-esque guy onscreen ;D~♥
and i'll just mentally add Duo in between the lines XD since we know there really IS NO heero without duo mwahahhahahahahahaha :D
♥

[luel_exana]

Believe me, this guy is very Heero Yuy-esque. I think you'll enjoy it. If you pretend it's Heero all the way through, it's like watching gen fic in movie form.

And there IS one guy who could be Duo. After a mission the guy jokingly calls the protagonist "Rambo" and generally makes cracks at him when he's around. It felt like a very Duo thing to do. That guy, and the other two Preventer dudes Heero-esque guy works with, have a very solid camaraderie and a good working relationship. It's sad you only get to see it for maybe five minutes in the whole movie. But I guess that's where "between the lines" comes in, since you know there's a history of fun Preventer misadventures lurking in there. (There's a funny story in there how Heero ditches them in the middle of a mission so he can go to his daughter's birthday, and they all laugh at him for being a dick like that.)

[salamandere]

man, the side characters in movies are always the best and they never get enough screen time. what's up with that??

LOL. I'm trying to imagine heero abandoning a mission for a birthday party. On the one hand, I can totally see it as something he would do to be loyal to a friend and because he's badass enough to pull off both. On the other hand i can see him being honestly scandalized by the idea of ditching a mission and if someone else did it (totally duo, btw) he would be horrified. But i think both scenarios are plausible.

haha, aw, heero, you're so cute, damn it.