Friday, June 01, 2007

One Hour Photo (2002)

I can't remember if I noted this earlier, but this movie seems to be timed to point to a 1-359 clue. The difference of 11/25/1986 and 5/4/2000 is 13 years, 5 months, 9 days. According to the article, that was the day before this movie released on Friday, 5/5/2000. I recognize the date 11/25/1986 as when my family had a funeral service for me after they thought I had been killed when the Libyan prison I was being held as a Prisoner of War was bombed.

So this movie, "Gladiator" creates a 1-359 clue with 11/25/1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_%282000_film%29

Release date(s) May 5, 2000

Gladiator is a 2000 historical action/drama film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. Crowe portrays the loyal General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when the Emperor's ambitious son Commodus (Phoenix) murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor.

The film won five Academy Awards in the 73rd Academy Awards ceremony, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. While Gladiator was criticized by historians for its historical inaccuracies, its epic scope and intense battle scenes won praise. Gladiator was released in 2000, thirty-six years after the last historical epic, The Fall of the Roman Empire. The film's success may have helped to revive the historical epic genre, with subsequent films such as Troy, Alexander, 300 and Kingdom of Heaven, the last of which was also directed by Scott.



From 7/16/1963 to 7/3/1965 is: 718 days
718 / 2 = 359

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001567/

Connie Nielsen

Date of Birth: 3 July 1965, Elling, Frederikshavn, Denmark

One Hour Photo (2002) .... Nina Yorkin
Gladiator (2000) .... Lucilla
Mission to Mars (2000) .... Terri Fisher
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Soldier (1998/I) .... Sandra


The actor who portrayed Connie Nielsen's husband in "One Hour Photo" was 33.59 years old on 7/3/2002. That was right about the time Kirk Tavener, my manager at Microsoft, showed me that pornographic video, "Priceless," during my performance review. This movie, "One Hour Photo" premiered a few months later and represents how Bill Gates, and his paparazzi accomplices, have invaded my family's lives. A current example of these paparazzi's that are beyond psychotic are this Jeff Renner motherfucker weatherman on KING5 television. It is beyond insane that a goddamned paparazzi-weatherman, among all the others, has invaded my home all these years.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0890232/

Michael Vartan

Date of Birth: 27 November 1968
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One Hour Photo (2002) .... Will Yorkin


That actor, who portrays the husband stalked by the psychotic representation of Bill Gates, was also 33 years, 33 weeks, old on my wife's 39th birthday. Another birthday I had to goddamned miss because of these fucking psychopaths.

The movie also released, according to article, 59 days, after my wife's birthday.

From 7/16/2002 to 9/13/2002 is: 59 days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hour_Photo

Release date(s) August 21, 2002 (limited); September 13, 2002 (wide)

One Hour Photo (2002) is an American psychological thriller, written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed the movie in the United States, and it also starred Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Williams won a Saturn Award for Best Actor (2003) for his work in the film.

Sy Parrish, a photo tech at "SavMart", leads a depressing life alone. Daily, he labors to ensure his customers get the most perfect photos possible; his life is truly his work for he has no-one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day. Among his customers are the Yorkin family, made up of husband William (Vartan), wife Nina (Nielsen), and their only child Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy has done their photos for years and, over time, has developed an obsession with the family; he admires their happiness and wealth, memorizes every personal detail about them that he can learn, and finally begins to stalk them. Most of all, he fantasizes about being a member of their family, and sharing in the love he assumes they must feel. However, he is painfully shy, and his attempts to become closer to the family are gently rebuffed.

Sy discovers that William is having an affair, and his rosy conception of the Yorkins as the 'perfect' loving family is shattered. He comes to hate and envy William, who has everything Sy longs for, yet who doesn't seem to care. Sy soon finds himself in trouble with his manager Bill Owens (Cole), first for an outburst in the store, and then for the manager's discovery that Sy has been making unaccounted photo copies. He stalks the manager's daughter, leading to a police report against him. While detectives (played by La Salle and Clark Gregg) are discovering Sy's obsession, he confronts William and his mistress in their hotel room, with a knife and a camera, and forces them to make pornographic poses. As he tries to leave the hotel, he is arrested.

In the movie's final scene, set in a police interrogation room, a detective (La Salle) asks Sy why he terrorized the Yorkins. Sy indirectly reveals that his father had made him do 'sick, disgusting things that no kid should ever have to do'. The implication, confirmed by Romanek, is that Sy's father exploited him for child pornography, and this accounts for his loneliness, and his obsession with photography. Sy cannot understand why William, as the perfect father, was determined to destroy his family. As the detective prepares to take his confession, Sy asks for the pictures he made at the hotel, which the detective has described as 'evidence'. They appear to be only shots of household objects and interior furnishings he took on a separate roll after the incident in the hotel (possibly an allusion to his statement, earlier in the film, 'the little things are that which make up our lives').