Your Soundtrack Film: 11/01/2011

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Someday

Someday I will go home
Someday I will go home
And I'll find peace in the house
Of my heavenly father
I will fear, fear no more

I know down in my heart
I know it won't be long
And I shall see the face
Of my savior
I will fear, I will fear
I will fear, pain no more

Someday, I will go home
Someday, I will go home
And I shall take the hand
Of my savior
I will fear, I will fear
I will fear, pain no more
I, I will fear, I will fear
Pain no more

Driving home
Driving home
I'm driving home

*http://www.lyricsmania.com/someday_lyrics_los_lobos.html

Storyline, Love Song For Bobby Long (2004):

Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.by Sujit R. Varma

In Florida, the teenager Purslane Hominy Will is lately informed by her mate that her mother passed away. She returns to her hometown, New Orleans, for the funeral and decided to live in her mother's house. However, she finds that the completely decayed house has two drunken dwellers: the former English professor Bobby Long and his former assistant Lawson Pines, who has unsuccessfully been trying to write a book about the life of Bobby Long for nine years. She decides to share the place living together with them and after their initial difficult relationship, they disclose deep secrets and improve their lives.by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

For those who have read Ronald Everett Capps' novel 'Off Magazine Street' and savor the slow, lugubrious, decadent pattern of life in the poor section of New Orleans, then Screenwriter/Director Shainee Gabel's transformation of those ideas into A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG will certainly satisfy. Though Gabel has manipulated characters names and identification to fit her sensitive interpretation of Capps' story into a visual manifestation, the changes are sound and serve to make this remarkably fine low budget film a humid, alcoholically lethargic slice of New Orleans as viable as, say, Tennessee Williams. There is a captured ambiance of the South complete with decay, shanties, intermittent rain, and aimless broken lives that sets a fine stage for a rather minimal story.

Purslane Hominy Will (Scarlett Johansson) is a young high school dropout living in trailer park trash in Florida with a low class boyfriend Lee (Clayne Crawford) when she learns of her mother Lorraine's death in New Orleans. Though she hasn't seen or heard from her obese, druggie, songwriter mother in years, she wants to attend her funeral and strikes out for New Orleans.

Arriving on the doorstep of her mother's rundown, rotting house, she discovers Bobby Long (John Travolta), an unkempt drunk who once was an English professor in a college in Alabama but fell into oblivion and alcohol when he lost his wife and family. He is living in filth with Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht) who, as Bobby's teaching assistant whom Bobby has deemed gifted, has followed Bobby to write Bobby's biography - a work in progress that has stalemated in favor of alcoholism and disillusionment. Pursey hears that Booby and Lawson were Lorraine's closest friends (she had invited them to flop in her shabby house, entertained by their low key scholasticism and literature quoting), and that Lorraine had willed her home to the three of them.

Pursey moves in reluctantly - she has nowhere else to go - and immediately is at odds with her 'roommates'. Likewise Bobby and Lawson resist Pursey's presence and insist she 'get a life' by returning to high school, making use of her obvious intellect. The verbal sparing that eventually leads the three to find a sense of family lays the foundation for the predictable conclusion.

That is the simplicity of the tale - if it is storyline that is important to you. Gabel's distillation of Capps' novel is in the atmosphere she creates with these gifted actors. Bobby may be a drunk but he is the spokesman for a neighborhood of sad broken lives. The world is confined to the street that contains the local bar, churches, and graveyards - each of varying importance but all drenched in humidity and frequent rains and alcohol and aimless living. The local bar is tended by Georgiana (Deborah Kara Unger) with whom Lawson is having a strained affair. The folk who gather at Bobby's literature-spouting soirees include gardener Cecil (Dane Rhodes), Junior (David Jensen), to mention only a few well-defined characters. That anyone could alter the ennui in the way Pursey changes things is a minor miracle.

The minimal music score by Grayson Capps is atmospheric as are the off-screen comments and quotations of great literature of TS Eliot, Robert Frost, WH Auden et al. The cinematography by Eliot Davis is properly claustrophobic and decadent in atmosphere. And while some feel the movie is too long for the minimal story, the length and pacing are in keeping with the traditions and the literature of the South and for this viewer it works exceedingly well.

Travolta, Johansson, Macht, and Unger give multifaceted, highly sensitive performances. As for Shainee Gabel (whose only other film was the controversial 'Anthem') here is a writer and director to watch. The DVD contains some excellent deleted scenes and one of the more informative 'making of' segments with Gabel, Travolta, Johansson, Macht, and Rhodes speaking with quiet eloquence. Highly recommended.by gradyharp, USA

*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369672/reviews

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Los Lobos :: Someday

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It's Getting Harder All The Time

It's hard not to think about you, to keep you off my mind.
It's hard to live in this world without you,

CHORUS

And It's getting harder,
It's getting harder,
It's getting harder,
All the time.

it's so hard to walk past the phone now,
And not try your line.
It's hard to try and make it alone now.

(chorus)

Baby I've got no more foolish pride,
Baby I must have you by my side.
Can't stop wishing for what I had,
Need your kisses and I need 'em bad.

So hard to go on living,
I know that you're not mine.
It's hard without all the love you've given

(chorus)

*guitar solo

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Baby I've got no more foolish pride,
Baby I just need you by my side.
Can't stop wishing for what I had,
Need your kisses and I need 'em bad.

So hard to go on living,
I know that your not mine.
It's hard without all the love you've given.

(chorus)

*http://www.thelyricarchive.com/song/628329-84537/End-of-Term-Dance-%22It's-Getting-Harder-All-the-Time%22

Storyline, To Sir With Love (UK, 1967):

Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he's hopeful that he won't be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students' personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through?by Ed Sutton

After searching unsuccessfully for work as an engineer, Mark Thackeray accepts a teaching position at a rough, East End London high school. His colleagues warn him about the impossible brutes he will encounter there, but still he enters his classroom unprepared for their horrible defiance. A classic portrayal of teen angst, where these impoverished, battered kids, who have turned out badly, are determined to brutalize everyone around them. The teachers let them dance between classes to vent some of their aggressive energy, but they all treat the classroom as though it were an unsupervised sandbox. With transcendent dignity, Thackary tames them and teaches them self-respect. As sentimental as the plot may be, the kids' transition is touching, and Poitier is as cool and classy as ever.by alfiehitchie

An engineer by trade, Mark Thackeray, a black man, gets a teaching post until he can find an engineering job. His posting is to teach the senior class at North Quay Secondary School in East London, a school in a tough neighborhood where even the most troubled of students are sent. The school is in a primarily white neighborhood where there is a strict moral code amongst the residents of race relations between whites and blacks. Encouraged by his female colleagues but given a sense of resignation by his male colleagues, Thackeray is having trouble with his class, who are openly disruptive. He is having issues with two students in particular, Denham and Miss Dare, issues which he will have to resolve carefully. After an incident which he considers the last straw, he comes to the realization of what his class really does need to learn.by Huggo

A perfect classic that instantly mesmerizes. Remade 3x in the 1990s: first as Sister Act2 (1993); followed by Dangerous Minds (1995); and finally as To Sir With Love2 (1996), the made-for-TV sequel with the aging Sidney Poitier. None of these remakes hold a candle to the beaming lighthouse of the original. Based on the genteel ER Braithwaite's own experiences in 1960s England, the screenplay is a primer in social psychology.

Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier in his signature role) is a struggling Elec.Eng. graduate who can't get an engineering job, so he answers an ad for a teacher in the East End (a chronically run down, industrial part) of London. He's a decent man who's nevertheless met the many faces of rejection, of prejudice, of poverty, yet no-one has managed yet to break his spirit-otherwise he couldn't have brought hope to the East Enders the way he clearly did. He's about 30ish, and single. Ha, as he himself observes to his new students, `Marriage is NO way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.' Amen to that! Spoken like a man I wouldn't mind (exchanging-shhh) for a husband.

Mr Thackeray is a very cluey guy. He quickly realizes that the `razzing' he's getting from his ill-educated, brutish students is courtesy of their need to dominate the system to SUCCESSFULLY cover-up their academic incompetence. Moreover, the push for this always comes from the biggest bully (ie who rules the school), because the b***ard always has enough cunning to realize he can't afford to show any weakness, for fear of getting toppled by his own. Very primitive behaviour, baboons do the same thing!

Anyway, things come to a head 29mins into the movie. Already exhausted after just a few weeks, Mr Thackeray walks into his classroom and instantly smells a foul stench emanating from the smoking stove. `All you boys, OUT! The girls stay where they are!' he barks. He waits till the boys exit, then rounds on the girls: `There are certain things a decent woman keeps private; only a filthy slut would have done this! And those who stood by and encouraged her are just as bad, I don't care who they are!' He thinks it was a girl who threw a soiled sanitary pad onto the fire (this is never spelled out), but I disagree. Girls don't have ANY fascination for such things, only immature, brutish boys do. My point being, that, of course, it was the boys; but the accusation was extremely effective against the girls nevertheless, because it instantly drove a wedge between the genders. The girls didn't appreciate being humiliated by the boys in the first place, but to be accused of their guilt was now BEYOND what they're prepared to tolerate.

That was the watershed for `Sir'. By the time he re-enters after having demanded they clear the air, he's figured out how he should treat his students, and demonstrates his seriousness as he just junks all their textbooks. Obviously, it's the right technique at the right time, because it starts to work (they don't always). His students begin to trust him; especially the girls who have found their independence from the boys. Soon the class goes on a field trip to the museum. Matched to Lulu's glorious almost-lullaby of a theme song, we watch a montage of heart-tugging stills (by Laurie Ridley & Dennis Stone) of the students wide-eyedly enjoying their first museum experience, as they realize that their mod hairstyles and fashions really are just retreads from history.

There IS another watershed scene that seems to shock all the kids, in the yard, when Denham (Christian Roberts)'s girlfriend Pamela Dare (Judy Geeson) rounds on Seales (Anthony Villaroel), the only black student in the class, for `never speaking up'; who then publicly admits `I'm not Sir. I only wish I was'. It was what they were all thinking about themselves, but Seales is the only one who blurts it out.

The politics between Denham and his girlfriend shift again, because she develops a probably life-altering crush on Sir. I always smirk at the scene where Babs (Lulu) defends Pamela: `You lay off, Denham, you sonova b_' as her voice is drowned out by a passing train. It must be in large part due to this movie that people now GROAN at objections to interracial relationships (so do I-to objections I mean), and no wonder-Sir is `big, broad, handsome, clean, intelligent...', as the Deputy Head, Mrs Evans (Faith Brook) describes him. Poitier is never better than in the scene with Mrs Evans where he is tortured and at a loss at Pamela's crush. His other delicious scenes include being embarrassed at the bawdy candor of some mothers on the bus during the opening, and at the final dance when he gets tongue-tied and almost bursts out crying. I have no doubt that the entire cast had a deep camaraderie.

Sir is NOT PERFECT, though. Some of his attitudes are unjust. He's too aloof as he kept whitewashing the world's continued right to chronically disadvantage his students. He refuses to discuss questions of justice external to his classroom. This seems like insensitivity to me! But he'd apparently put in enough work to have his students trust him, although it was a fine line that could've still gone wrong. Denham, the brewing storm, to our astonishment, actually feared the power that teachers had over his employment prospects. Perhaps he figured he shouldn't really antagonize Sir, who at that stage still tolerated Denham's brinkmanship.

One final WARNING: the cinematography just might blow you away as you watch stills of Sir's students flash by, interrupting a decision he has to make. `So long as we learn, it doesn't matter WHO teaches us, does it?', remarked a colleague in the teachers' lounge when he first started. If you can stand this scene without it almost breaking your heart, then perhaps you've learned that lesson a long time ago. 10/10.by lizziebeth-1, Sydney, Australia

*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062376/reviews?start=10

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The Mindbenders :: It's Getting Harder All The Time

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It's My Life

CHORDS:

Abm, F#, E, B, C#, C#sus4

EADGBe

C#sus4: x4667x ^_^!

INTRO: Abm E F# (BIS)

Abm E F# E

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted

Abm E F# E

No silent prayer for the faith-departed

Abm F#

I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd

You're gonna hear my voice

C#sus4 / C#

When I shout it out loud

[Chorus:]

Abm

It's my life

E B

It's now or never

F# Abm

I ain't gonna live forever

E F#

I just want to live while I'm alive

B E F#/Abm

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

E F#

I just wanna live while I'm alive

B F# Abm

It's my life

[VERSE 2:]

This is for the ones who stood their ground

For Tommy and Gina who never backed down

Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake

Luck ain't even lucky

Got to make your own breaks

[Chorus:]

It's my life

And it's now or never

I ain't gonna live forever

I just want to live while I'm alive

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

I just want to live while I'm alive

'Cause it's my life

"acoustic guitar solo"

[Pre-Chorus:]

Abm F#

Better stand tall when they're calling you out

B C#sus4 / C#

Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down

[Chorus:]

It's my life

And it's now or never

'Cause I ain't gonna live forever

I just want to live while I'm alive

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

I just want to live while I'm alive

'Cause it's my life

(Abm - E - F#) x10

Yeah

Na na na naa na na na

It's my life

Na na na naa na na na

And it's now or never

Na na na naa na na na

It's my life

Na na na naa na na na

I ain't gonna live forever

It's my life.... (na na na naa na na na)

etc etc etc......XD XD

*http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/bon_jovi/its_my_life_acoustic_crd.htm

Storyline, Dangerous Mind (1995):

Louanne Johnson is an ex-marine, hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city. She has recently separated from her husband. Her friend, also teacher in the school, got the temporary job for her. After a terrible reception from the students, she tries unconventional methods of teaching (using karate, Bob Dylan lyrics etc) to gain the trust of the students.

In this drama, a school teacher discovers that it takes more than the ABCs to get through to a class of "uneducatable" kids. When Lou Anne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps with a degree in education, begins a new job at an inner-city school in California, the principal (George Dzundza) warns her that her class will be the "rejects from Hell" -- kids with severe social problems and no interest in education. While at first her African-American and Latino students scoff at Lou Anne, she ultimately gets them to open up to learning and literature, through a combination of bribery (candy bars) and intimidation (her karate training from the Marines comes in handy), and she's able to reach out to the students who need her the most: Callie (Bruklin Harris), a bright girl who believes she's thrown away her future when she becomes pregnant; Emilio (Wade Dominquez), a macho bully whose violence is stifling his academic potential; and Raul (Renoly Santiago), the brightest kid in the class, who is afraid to show his intelligence. Dangerous Minds was adapted from a memoir by Lou Anne Johnson entitled My Posse Don't Do Homework.

When this movie was first released, I refused to line up and watch it. I thought it was another of those simplistic and "popular" - love the teacher, fight delinquency - movies. In fact I refused to be taken for granted by clever Hollywood people who, usually, produce very "sweet" and "educative" movies. Well, a couple of years later, while I was refurbishing my own movie collection I stumbled on a special LaserDisc sale and bought this one as well (just to see what all the fuzz about it was really about). First of all, I was amazed to know that it is based on a true story, just like "Lean on me" and what caught my attention was that the teacher in question didn't belong to that profession: she was a discharged and unemployed USMC officer. I expected a war between her and the pupils she would "drill". What I received in return was an education on how one can be prejudiced, in more than just one way... Having served in the Swiss Army and having been a teacher myself, I could really empathize with the Character played by Michelle Pfeiffer. My first teaching approach, unlike hers, was disastrous to say the least... The entire movie deals with LITTLE, REAL, EVERYDAY problems and not with the big issues of life and this is probably why this movie was summarily discarded as being second rate. But when we consider how children consider and perceive our world nowadays, it's exactly what they expect us, the adults, to do as well. That's to say, take our time to explain to them the everyday happenings in their little worlds. Why mom and dad went their separate ways, why do they have to cope with homework they cannot understand and so on and so forth. This movie is a teaching lesson for teachers, not a moralizing or preachy one. It shows us how it should be done, nothing more. In Drama one says "less is more", why shouldn't it apply to life? We always want to set standards and a higher example to the students we are supposed to tutor, but what about our commitment to give them what they really want: lend them an ear when they talk, a heart when they feel sorrow, and sometimes, when required, a firm authority to look up to? Many colleagues I have met have forgotten what teaching is all about. It's not a simple profession to earn your life, it's much more than this, it's a mission, a passion, a drive, a call, just like the one an actor or a director have. In this instance in my own opinion, "Dangerous Minds" has amply achieved its goals. For the detractors of this tiny movie I would suggest to take a better and closer look, they might still learn something... But please, take your time and concentrate on it. This is really not a "Popcorn" and "Beer" movie.by Lugano, Switzerland

*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112792/reviews
*http://www.moviefone.com/movie/dangerous-minds/1414/synopsis

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Bon Jovi :: It's My Life

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To Sir With Love

A B
Those school girl days
D A
of telling tales and biting nails are gone
A B
But in my mind
D A
I know they will, will still live on and on

Abm C#m
But how do you thank someone
Abm C#m
who has taken you from crayons to perfume
B E B F#
It isn't easy but I'll try....

B
If you wanted the sky
D B
I'd write across the sky in letters
D B
that would soar a thousand feet high
E F#
To Sir, With Love

A B
The time has come
D A
for closing books and long last looks must end
A B
And as I leave
D A
I know that I am leaving my best friend

Abm C#m
A friend who taught me right from wrong
Abm C#m
and weak from strong, that's a lot to learn
B E B F#
What! what can I give you in return

B
If you wanted the moon
D B
I would try to make a start But I
D B
would rather you let me give my heart
E F#
To Sir, With Love

A B
Those awkward years
D A
have hurried by why did they fly away
A B
Why is it Sir
D A
children grow up to be people some day

Abm C#m
What takes the place of climbing trees
Abm C#m
and dirty knees in the world outside
B E B F#
What is there for you I can buy

B
If you wanted the world
D B
I'd surround it with a wall I'd scrawl
D B
These words with letters ten feet tall
E F#
To Sir, With Love

*http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/l/lulu/to_sir_with_love_ver3_crd.htm

Storyline, To Sir With Love (UK, 1967):

Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he's hopeful that he won't be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students' personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through?by Ed Sutton

*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062376/reviews?start=10

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Lulu :: To Sir With Love

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[starttext]

Tomorrow Never Dies

Gm Gm7 Cm Cm7 D7/G D7 Fm Fm7 G

Dm7/g E --3---- Dm7 --2---

B --1---- --1---

G --2---- --2---

D --0---- --0---

A --X---- --X---

E --X---- --X---

Darling I'm killed

Gm7

I'm in a puddle on the floor

Cm Cm7 D7/G D7

Waiting for you to return

Oh, what a thrill

Gm7

Fascinations gallore

Cm Cm7 D7/G D7

How you tease, how you leave me to burn

Fm Fm7

It's so deadly, my dear

Fm G

The power of having you near

Chorus:

Cm Cm7 Fm G

Until the day

Cm7 Fm G

Until the world falls away

Cm Fm G

Until you say there'll be no more goodbyes

Fm G

I see it in your eyes

Cm Cm7

Tomorrow never dies...

Cm G Cm G

2nd Verse:

Gm Gm7

Darling you've won, it's no fun

Martinis, girls and guns

Cm Cm7 D7/G D7

Its murder on our love affair

But you bet your life every night

Gm7

While you chase the morning light

Cm Cm7 D7/G D7

You're not the only spy out there

It's so deadly, my dear

Fm7 G

The power of wanting you near

Chorus X2:

Cm Cm7 Fm G (4times instumental )

Cm Cm7 Fm G

Until the day

Cm Cm7 Fm G

Until the day

Cm Cm7 Fm G

Until the day

*http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/s/sheryl_crow/tomorrow_never_dies_crd.htm

Storyline, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997):

The pre-title teaser takes place on a border region of Russia where a large bazaar of illegally obtained weapons are being sold to international terrorists. Far away, in an observation room, M, her assistant, Robinson and a British admiral, Roebuck, are watching the operation through cameras placed by an agent they've sent into the area. They identify many of the weapons and several of the buyers. Over M's protests, the officers agree to launch a guided missile into the area believing that they will eliminate half of the world's most dangerous criminals. The missile is launched from a British frigate and speeds toward the target just as the command center receives a radio call from their agent on the scene. Among the camera images is a plane holding two powerful soviet nuclear weapons which may be triggered by the guided missile. An attempt to abort the missile attack fails and the agent, who is revealed to be James Bond, rushes into the area to steal the plane and the bombs. The attack causes most of the terrorists to flee the area. Bond reaches the plane and knocks the pilot in it unconscious. He successfully escapes the valley before the missile hits but is pursued by another of the surviving terrorists in a plane identical to his. He evades the 2nd plane, however, the pilot he knocked out awakes and throws a heavy cord around Bond's neck. Bond keeps control of the plane, flying under the 2nd one and activates the rear ejection seat of his own plane, throwing the man up into the other plane, causing it to explode. Bond contacts the command center and tells them he is flying home with the nukes.

In the South China sea, a British missile frigate, the Devonshire, is on patrol and is being threatened by the Chinese air force. They are supposedly far off their course and in Chinese territorial waters, despite what their satellite position tells them. Nearby, an odd-looking boat, equipped with stealth technology, launches a sea-drilling device into the water and punctures the hull of the British ship. It continues into the ship causing much damage and the ship sinks. The boat's commanding officer, Stamper, contacts his boss, Eliot Carver, a British media mogul, to tell him the 1st part of the operation is complete. Carver approves and gives Stamper the go-ahead for the 2nd part: many of the sailors aboard are alive in the water and are killed by Stamper and his men who make sure to use ammunition that would've been used by the Chinese. Back at his own command center, Carver is writing the headline for his international newspaper, Tomorrow, trying to decide if the words "British Soldiers Murdered" will generate the proper outrage.

In London, James Bond is called back to duty during a romantic tryst. He is ordered to investigate the possibility of Carver's involvement in the Devonshire incident, his lead-in being a past relationship with Carver's girlfriend, Paris. Bond travels to Hamburg, Germany where Carver will hold a big unveiling of his new media center. At the airport, he meets Q who provides him with a cellular phone and his car, a BMW 750, which can be driven using the phone.

Bond attends Carver's gala party and reconnects with Paris Carver and meets a new woman, Wai Lin, of the Chinese government's news organization. During the gala party, Bond is apprehended by a few of Carver's thugs who take him to a sound proof room to beat him. He overpowers them and shuts down Carver's broadcast. He returns to his hotel room to find Paris Carver waiting for him. The two sleep together and she tells him a way to infiltrate Carver's Hamburg media headquarters.

The next day, Bond sneaks into the headquarters of Carver's media company and finds the office occupied by Henry Gupta, Carver's communications specialist and known techno-terrorist. In Gupta's safe, Bond finds a CIA decoder device, the same one Gupta took from the arms bazaar Bond infiltrated earlier. It is believed that the device may have been used by Gupta to guide the Devonshire off course. Bond takes the decoder and is leaving the building when he is discovered by the guards. While escaping the factory, Bond spots Lin leaving as well. Bond is able to leave the factory in his car, which he drives to the parking garage of his hotel. He activates the security system and goes to his room. There he finds Paris, dead on the bed. A videotape playing nearby shows an completed Carver broadcast saying Paris was discovered murdered with an unidentified man in a hotel room. An assassin, Dr. Kaufman, holds him at gunpoint and admits he killed Paris. Now he plans to kill Bond as well and frame him for the murder after Stamper recovers the decoding device Bond stole. In the parking garage, the BMW's security system makes it impossible for Stamper and his men to get the decoder. Kaufman threatens to torture Bond, who hands over his cell phone and gives a code to punch in which will unlock the car. The phone sends a powerful electric shock into Kaufman and Bond turns the doctor's gun on the man and shoots him, completing the Carver media image of Paris' death.

Bond returns to the parking garage and activates his car with his phone. He jumps into a rear window and pilots the car from the back seat. Carver's men have set up several traps for him but the car's defenses and weapons allow Bond to escape them. He pilots the car to the top level of the garage and allows it to drive off the edge and plummet to the street where it lands directly in the office of Avis Car Rentals.

Bond reports to the South China Sea where he meets with American and British military officials and his CIA contact, Jack Wade. Bond shows the group how the decoder works and was used to change the location of the Devonshire. Now that they know were to find the sunken ship, Bond will explore it to prove that the ship was deliberately set off-course. Armed with a parachute and scuba gear, Bond must "HALO" jump into the wreck site, opening his chute a short distance above the water to avoid radar detection. The military officials discover that the site of the Devonshire is not actually in Chinese waters but those of Vietnam, making Bond's HALO jump more risky. Bond reaches the wreck and finds Wai Lin there already. The two discover that two of the Devonshire's guided missiles have been stolen. They surface before the ship sinks deeper into the sea and are promptly captured by Stamper on a Vietnamese fishing boat. They are taken to Carver HQ in Saigon, where they reveal they've been working together on the case for months. Carver orders Stamper to torture them both. Bond and Lin, though handcuffed together, start a gunfight and escape the building. They steal a motorcycle and are chased through the streets until cornered by Carver's helicopter. They grab a cable and are able to throw it into the tail rotor of the 'copter, which crashes. Shortly after, while cleaning up, Lin unfastens her handcuff and refastens it to a pipe and leaves Bond behind. He quickly frees himself and tails her to her hideout. She's attacked by several thugs but Bond intervenes and they beat them. They decide to search for Carver's stealth boat together and re-arm themselves.

The two search several areas large enough for Carver to hide his stealth craft and get lucky on the last cove. The board the boat and plan to plant explosive charges to disrupt it's radar cover and make it visible to the British fleet. Lin is captured and Bond sneaks inside. Carver reveals his ultimate plan; he will launch one of the stolen British missiles into China, provoking a war. The new conflict will be covered by his media group and he will bid for exclusive rights to media coverage in China when his secret partner General Chang takes control of the Chinese government and miraculously ends the conflict. Bond is able to take Gupta hostage; Carver kills Gupta openly after the tech-expert tells his boss that the preparations are complete. However, a grenade planted by Bond with a small triggering device goes off, causing a huge explosion. The boat, now visible to radar, is attacked by the British navy. Carver orders Stamper to go ahead with the missile launch. With the boat disintegrating around them, Bond fights through several of Carver's henchmen and corners the villain. Bond activates the sea drill hanging nearby and forces Carver into its path killing him. Stamper has chained Lin and dangles her over the indoor pool; when she passes Bond some detonation fuses to sabotage the missile, Stamper drops her in the water. Bond and Stamper fight briefly and Bond traps the thug's ankle under the missile. With Stamper holding him in front of the missile's engines, he hopes that Bond will burn and die with him. Bond is able to cut the straps on his pack and he plunges into the water just as the missile launches and the detonators destroy it and Stamper. Under water, he rescues Lin, breathing air into her lungs with a kiss. The two surface just as the stealth boat sinks. They are later picked up by the British Navy while sharing a romantic moment in a lifeboat.by tyler53841

*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120347/synopsis

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