The prison factions -- Muslims, Aryans, Latinos, black gang members -- may mix it up on-screen with bloody consequences, but off-screen there was a jovial, laid-back vibe rare in the ego-driven entertainment industry.
After all, this was Corleone, the birthplace of mob bosses like Bernardo Provenzano; its bloody history, on screen and off, made the name synonymous with gangster violence.
Inside the red shirts' squalid bamboo-fenced encampment, televisions screen bloody footage of the April 10th clashes with security forces that left 25 dead and over 800 injured.Protests are starting to spread in the north east, a stronghold of Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted as prime minister in the 2006 coup and still a hero to many red shirts.
You'll find good linen, elegant pitchers filled with chilled bloody marys, flat-screen televisions, the occasional chandelier.
In an interview with a small group of journalists on Friday, Madden talked about how difficult it was to film the Red Wedding, a tragic event that was even bloodier on the screen than it was in the George R.R. Martin book.
A controversial and unflinchingly graphic film of the Omagh bombing has been shown to victims' families as Northern Ireland debates the merits of recreating its bloody past on the screen.
Somehow, we want him to succeed in escaping The Dragon, even as he watches the grainy, poorly-shot footage of Will's family with Reba draped around him, staring bloody murder at the screen.
Into this last was threaded a tiny camera on a stem; an image of her viscera — gleaming, bulging, bloody — appeared on a screen above the table, brightly visible in the dark room.
(Or so a French reporter told me one morning, having said he heard shots on campus the previous evening during movie night — a screening of "Bloody Sunday").
It had video screens showing bloody action footage and goose-stepping Nazis along with the band's logo, lest anyone forget whom they were watching.
