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The quote (or scene) I recall vividly is when Hemo tires of "all this plumbing ... you haven't learned my secrets at all" and threatens to storm out, the Scientist answers him in a single word "Thalassa" -- salt water which horrifies the Fiction Writer but mollifies Hemo and segues so neatly into the chemical aspects of blood.
McIntire threatens that he'll be a dead man if he ever comes back through his town, which is, unfortunately, the only way back to the States.
Though, circumstances ensue which will bring her to make a decision that threatens her successful way of achieving those riches..Trenholm, now her husband, is being indicted with jail certain and has lost the bank.
Instead of striking oil they tap an underground volcano which threatens all life in the Lost World.
When a dark, unknown danger threatens her idyllic "paperhouse", the life of Marc is put in jeopardy.
unable to rent nor hire in recent times it threatens to be lost forever.
The story isn't about the street life or the Italian mobster who tries to buy Stix off, then threatens him, it's about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be "discovered" back then.
All of them do seem pretty formula now in retrospect: an evil threatens but only the young protagonist realizes and has a difficult time making anyone else aware.
There's a stark, haunting beauty within the land called Kekexili -- Tibetan for "Beautiful mountains, beautiful women" -- that threatens to smother the human drama being played out between the patrolmen risking their lives to preserve the antelope and the poachers who use their skins to create obscenely expensive scarves.
Adam picks it up, and for the next hour, an Islamic extremist (who has kidnapped his mother and sister) threatens to kill Adam's family if he doesn't follow every single order he's given.
There are many very funny gags up to this point to where they tickle St. John victoriously but then there's a racist gag involving one Ernie Morrison Sr. (the father of original "Our Gang"s Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison who would also occasionally appear in Harold Lloyd shorts) that threatens to put things to a halt.
It is painful to see the boy, quite literally, running for his life as the ice he's cradling threatens to melt before he can reach his destination.
Lessons of Darkness triumphs as a mock Science Fiction story of an apocalypse that threatens all of civilization.
This embarrassment even threatens Gosling's current and future job.
A parallel anti-matter universe threatens to collide with our own, destroying everything everywhere.
So she's now freakin' over what happened and when she threatens to go to the police, homeboy strangles her and keeps her body in his bedroom.
Just as Colbert has finally found a degree of happiness and has nearly forgotten Welles, whom she loved deeply, WWII threatens to break out and her eldest son (Long) is eager to go and fight!
It is Ozzie that accidentally releases the Leprechaun, hearing voices, and he threatens to kill him if he doesn't get his gold back, and luckily, his powers are weak.
He shoots up with drugs in public toilets, he beats up and threatens cabbies - it all seems too much like the makers of this new adaption are desperately trying to get an audience, but might have been happier making episodes of Eastenders.
When he threatens our flannel clad Richie Cunningham he says something along the lines of "You wont even get youself a phone call....cuz all the phones is dead!"
McIntire threatens to tear out the guy's liver and break his spleen if he comes near him.
Meanwhile, Iole, Herc's wife, gets captured by one of the brothers and threatens to kill her.
Oxygen starts one sunny afternoon in New York City as Frances Hannon (Laila Robins) is walking her pet dog around the block, a man (Adrien Brody) approaches her a begins to chat to her, at first he seems a pleasant & charming young man but he soon changes as he becomes aggressive, he threatens her & makes her get into a nearby car.
Deby picks up reluctant Nick at same bar and invents a possible future with him to all her girlfriends, whose constant pressure of questions concerning their imminent "engagement" threatens Deby's sanity and self esteem.
Detective Kevin Anjanette (Dondré T. Whitfield) finds that the images used by Bill Templer are forged and threatens his plans to regain power.
I wonder if Petersen ment this film to be a parody? the evil Soviet Union threatens to come back! the president of USA is kidnapped by a bunch communist terrorists! but be afraid no more!
So when his father threatens to withdraw him from Welton after his successful debut in a Midsummer Night's Dream, he might argue with his father or turn sullen, but it strains credulity that he would go to directly to suicide.
I ask you, what threatens these people?
Good thing, too, because The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway's tersest statement about what it means for a male to live a worthwhile life: live vigorously, test yourself, fight what threatens to destroy you (within and without), and emerged bloodied, but unbowed.
He has a scene with her near the end where he threatens her with a knife and she is so awful and unconvincing it almost makes me want to scream--every single time I watch this movie!
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