![]() The speeches are very simply expressed, with almost no big words. Those phrases are predictive spoken in the future tense. The speakers repeat phrases ("I will," "We shall," "I have a dream"). These speeches are incredibly similar even though the situations from which they emerge could not be more different. And it follows the same structure and uses the same techniques as two of the greatest speeches of the 20th century, albeit ones much more important than what's found in a popcorn flick: Winston Churchill's "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream." It was a classically structured piece of rhetoric, a Tarantino-style soliloquy but drained of comedy. Still, the speech from the original Taken (2008) was brilliant, and it was brilliant in a way almost never seen in the movies. By this point, the Secret Service would have been called out. ![]() With this weekend's Taken 3, the absurdity of the films' repetition has passed a new threshold. At least Ford's thrillers from the 1990s bothered to come up with separate plots and characters. ![]() Liam Neeson has largely taken over from Harrison Ford in the "family in jeopardy" genre on the strength of that single scene. It's one of few films whose fans quote not just lines but whole blocks of text from the script. Taken is the rare case of a movie franchise that has grown out of a single speech. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you." If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. ![]() If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. ![]()
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