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Seagal plays John Seager, freedom fighter and freelance mercenary, who after getting shafted by his current employer, goes to work for an enemy of the said employer, and proceeds to shaft him.
Great final "Shaft enraged by the slow working justice system" ending.
In the beginning, they count 191 steps to the bottom of the shaft to the lab, but later, it's just a homemade ladder about 12 feet long.
The movie kicks off with a hideously deformed boy being brutally murdered and then hung down a mine shaft.
In all the decades,(too many to tell) I've watched movies, I'd never seen a stunt as good as the one in the elevator shaft.
The concept of Shaft going to Africa and the cover alone are reason enough to get it.
If they could only make films like this these days, instead of poor attempts at remakes of classics (Shaft, for example).
Before you can even adjust to the tone of this suburban sex-opera, the most colorful character in the cast is given the shaft, with nothing left to occupy the interest except surgery footage and low-watt scandals.
Also Isaac Hayes who was the first African American composer to win an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song Shaft appears in the Episode as the Voice of their singing School Chef, named Chef!
Richard Roundtree (SHAFT) only appears during the final minutes.
He's the taciturn, muscular guy who can be thrown into an empty elevator shaft by three hoods, save himself after falling down a few floors by grabbing a cable and sliding to a halt, haul himself up to a doorway into an empty warehouse, and deck the three armed goons who still pursue him.
I watched "Footballers' Wives " last night.A blind man was thrown down a lift shaft,women were portrayed as scheming,greedy ,lying ,immoral and stupid.That's progress?I can't quite see how that empowers women - perhaps I'm missing something.
There is even a fight in an elevator shaft and Sam Shepard (Detective Beutel),"Blind Horizon,",'04, comes to Thelma's assistance.
The cheesiest part is where the two last friends are caught in a giant web in a elevator shaft and a spider comes running down the wall, if you see the sequel, this shot is used again.
Without giving too much away, I can only say that Gordon is given the shaft in such a way that I think the screenwriter was as crazy as Page.
The only 2 good scenes were when the character Micah is possessed, he gets zapped and then he's falling through a strange shaft, gets his body dismantled, he who walks behind the rows enters his blood, and he gets pieced to together and falls out into the cornfield.
Nowadays, however, shaft kilns are a favorite of local governments because they can be built cheaply and quickly and generate growth and employment.
He was beneath the pit-frame in the receiving room, at the very mouth of the shaft.
Four lanterns were placed there, and the reflectors which threw all the light on to the shaft vividly illuminated the iron rail, the levers of the signals and bars, the joists of the guides along which slid the two cages.
It was twenty-five metres beyond the shaft, in a loftier chamber, and placed so solidly on its brick foundation that though it worked at full speed, with all its four hundred horsepower, the movement of its enormous crank, emerging and plunging with oily softness, imparted no quiver to the walls.
The engine-man, standing at his post, listened to the ringing of the signals, and his eye never moved from the indicator where the shaft was figured, with its different levels, by a vertical groove traversed by shot hanging to strings, which represented the cages; and at each departure, when the machine was put in motion, the drums--two immense wheels, five metres in radius, by means of which the two steel cables were rolled and unrolled-- turned with such rapidity that they became like grey powder.
Near the shaft the signal was working, a heavy-levered hammer drawn by a cord from below and allowed to strike against a block.
He only understood one thing well: the shaft swallowed men by mouthfuls of twenty or thirty, and with so easy a gulp that it seemed to feel nothing go down.
For half an hour the shaft went on devouring in this fashion, with more or less greedy gulps, according to the depth of the level to which the men went down, but without stopping, always hungry, with its giant intestines capable of digesting a nation.
The young girl ran forward; while a crowd of miners proceeded to the shaft, yielding the fire to others.
He was in front of the shaft, in the midst of a vast hall swept by currents of air.
For the rest he could not distinguish the walls of the shaft behind the lattice work, to which he pressed his face.
At the bottom of the shaft it was very chilly, and in the wagon-gallery, through which all the air of the mine passed, an icy breeze was blowing, with the violence of a tempest, between the narrow walls.
The devouring shaft had swallowed its daily ration of men: nearly seven hundred hands, who were now at work in this giant ant-hill, everywhere making holes in the earth, drilling it like an old worm-eaten piece of wood.
Below, in the bottom gallery, were formed the trains which the horses drew to the shaft.
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