Steve Guttenberg revisionist
I submit to you, dear reader, a proposal:
Bruce Willis is just a lucky Steve Guttenberg. There's zero difference between them save Die Hard.
David Addison Jr. of "Moonlighting" - loveable yet wry, better with the ladies than a gun, and a smooth customer with a giant glob of gab.
Carey Mahoney of the "Police Academy" series - loveable yet wry, better with the ladies than a gun, and a smooth customer with a giant glob of gab.
1988: Steve G. towered over Tinseltown like some quirky King Kong of Komedy flattening foes with a few well-place comeuppances. "Cocoon," "Short Circuit," "Police Academy," and finally, "Three Men and a Baby" had elevated him to a bodhisattva of laffs - and how! He was pumping out more hits than Spector in his prime. Bruce Willis? Who was Bruce Willis?
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(Definition of bodhisattva from wikipedia here)
Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism
In Mahayana Buddhism, a bodhisattva has the compassionate determination to aid all beings on their quest for the highest state of development, full enlightenment of a Buddha. This type of motivation is known as bodhicitta ('citta' means mind). Remaining in this world of uncontrolled rebirth (samsara), the Bodhisattva has taken the bodhisattva vow to achieve Buddhahood as quickly as possible and thereby be most able to teach Dharma until all beings have likewise achieved enlightenment.
Another common conception of the Bodhisattva is one who delays his own final and complete enlightenment in order to save all sentient beings out of his enormous compassion. He is on a mission to liberate all sentient beings, and only then will he rest and complete his own enlightenment.
In brief, simply imagine the Bodhisattva as saying, "If I know how to swim, and even one other being cannot, then it is right to remain behind in this world to assist them until they know how to save themselves from drowning".
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And if Mahoney saw Fackler in a jam, don't you think he would have managed to save him from officer Mouser? I think the case is clear. What would a typical Bruce Willis character do? Shoot Mouser and yelp, "Yippie ky yi yay!"
SG would not douse himself in bloody entrails. Bruce Willis is a war pig.
What did Bruce Willis do to deserve Die Hard? When the whole stoner crew descended on the 99 cent movie theatre in downtown Windsor to see the horror of DH in the summer of 1988, did anyone know at that moment that Willis had ripped away SG's crown? No, we were too busy smoking Winstons in the theater and sneaking schnapps sips to realize what was going on. Dame Fortune can be merciless. It must have been like having a garden party in the country in June 1914, not paying attention to the papers.
Stevie G: no band that I know of. No machine guns. No smiles to lame smirks to an audience so versed in 80s action that they laughed at jokes designed to mock them for their own lack of expectations. Steve Guttenberg's kind of gratituous flesh and cheap pratfall films was never corrupted by endless corpse blockbusters.
What if Die Hard had never happened? What if Steve Guttenberg became Tom Hanks? Would we be in Iraq today?
Steve Guttenberg represented what we could have learned from Vietnam - a new kind of man too busy trying to get laid and a few laughs to butcher truckloads of extras in a few minutes. Bruce Willis is what we did instead.
Bruce Willis is just a lucky Steve Guttenberg. There's zero difference between them save Die Hard.
David Addison Jr. of "Moonlighting" - loveable yet wry, better with the ladies than a gun, and a smooth customer with a giant glob of gab.
Carey Mahoney of the "Police Academy" series - loveable yet wry, better with the ladies than a gun, and a smooth customer with a giant glob of gab.
1988: Steve G. towered over Tinseltown like some quirky King Kong of Komedy flattening foes with a few well-place comeuppances. "Cocoon," "Short Circuit," "Police Academy," and finally, "Three Men and a Baby" had elevated him to a bodhisattva of laffs - and how! He was pumping out more hits than Spector in his prime. Bruce Willis? Who was Bruce Willis?
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(Definition of bodhisattva from wikipedia here)
Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism
In Mahayana Buddhism, a bodhisattva has the compassionate determination to aid all beings on their quest for the highest state of development, full enlightenment of a Buddha. This type of motivation is known as bodhicitta ('citta' means mind). Remaining in this world of uncontrolled rebirth (samsara), the Bodhisattva has taken the bodhisattva vow to achieve Buddhahood as quickly as possible and thereby be most able to teach Dharma until all beings have likewise achieved enlightenment.
Another common conception of the Bodhisattva is one who delays his own final and complete enlightenment in order to save all sentient beings out of his enormous compassion. He is on a mission to liberate all sentient beings, and only then will he rest and complete his own enlightenment.
In brief, simply imagine the Bodhisattva as saying, "If I know how to swim, and even one other being cannot, then it is right to remain behind in this world to assist them until they know how to save themselves from drowning".
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And if Mahoney saw Fackler in a jam, don't you think he would have managed to save him from officer Mouser? I think the case is clear. What would a typical Bruce Willis character do? Shoot Mouser and yelp, "Yippie ky yi yay!"
SG would not douse himself in bloody entrails. Bruce Willis is a war pig.
What did Bruce Willis do to deserve Die Hard? When the whole stoner crew descended on the 99 cent movie theatre in downtown Windsor to see the horror of DH in the summer of 1988, did anyone know at that moment that Willis had ripped away SG's crown? No, we were too busy smoking Winstons in the theater and sneaking schnapps sips to realize what was going on. Dame Fortune can be merciless. It must have been like having a garden party in the country in June 1914, not paying attention to the papers.
Stevie G: no band that I know of. No machine guns. No smiles to lame smirks to an audience so versed in 80s action that they laughed at jokes designed to mock them for their own lack of expectations. Steve Guttenberg's kind of gratituous flesh and cheap pratfall films was never corrupted by endless corpse blockbusters.
What if Die Hard had never happened? What if Steve Guttenberg became Tom Hanks? Would we be in Iraq today?
Steve Guttenberg represented what we could have learned from Vietnam - a new kind of man too busy trying to get laid and a few laughs to butcher truckloads of extras in a few minutes. Bruce Willis is what we did instead.