Salt is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt who is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on the run to try to clear her name.
Originally written with a male protagonist, with Tom Cruise initially secured for the lead, the script was ultimately rewritten by Brian Helgeland for Jolie. Filming took place on location in Washington, D.C., the New York City area, and Albany, New York, between March and June 2009, with reshoots in January 2010. Action scenes were primarily performed with practical stunts, computer-generated imagery being used mostly for creating digital environments.
The film had a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 22 and was released in North America on July 23, 2010, and in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2010. Salt grossed $294 million at the worldwide box office and received mixed-to-positive reviews, with praise for the action scenes and Jolie's performance, but drawing criticism on the writing, with reviewers finding the plot implausible and convoluted. The DVD and Blu-ray was released December 21, 2010, and featured two alternate cuts providing different endings for the movie.
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Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.
Long John Silver: I say she's a lovely ship, sir. Well chosen.::Squire Trelawney: Thank you.::Long John Silver: She's got an arse on her that would sit well on any rollicking sea. I always say a man who could choose a good horse could choose a good ship, just by looking at its arse. And you, sir, look like a man who knows his way around a horse's arse.
Long John Silver: The rumor is the map was yours too. You've not seen it?::Jim Hawkins: I don't know.::Long John Silver: It would be a large piece of paper that would look like a map.
Captain Smollett: The next time I see you, you better come up bleating, man.::Long John Silver: Oh I will, Smollett, I will. And those that die, they will be the lucky ones!
Long John Silver: I've got one leg. What am I supposed to do, hobbled them to death?
Flint: Loyalty. Loyalty, John, is what you can hold in your hand.
Long John Silver: Jim, if you ever want help or advice...::Jim Hawkins: ...I won't be coming to you.::Long John Silver: Yeah, that's probably best.
[last lines]::Long John Silver: [to Jim] It's a fine gentlemen you're going to make.
Israel Hands: Do you think you could cope with killin', Jim? You got to be man enough not to care after it's all done.::Jim Hawkins: I could cope.::Israel Hands: You gotta be strong, in a religious way - or have no thought for God at all.::Jim Hawkins: I could cope.
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This rock and roll drama stars, James Brolin, Carlos Bernard, Tessie Santiago, The Marshall Tucker Band, Kurtis Blow, Patty Smyth and the rock and roll sensation from South Africa that lit up the screen on Rockstar Supernova, Dilana. When rock star sensation, Scottie B., falls prey to the demons of fame, she escapes the music scene only to find herself face to face with her destiny once again and even greater challenges when she inherits a little bar that was once owned by a woman with the same spirit and voice of an angel. This exciting rock and roll adventure shot was in the desert of California and the low country of South Carolina. Angel Camouflaged is the journey of SCOTTIE, a rock and roll singer whose struggle with substance abuse causes her music career to implode. Scottie bails on her manager/brother, MORGAN, to hide out in the Mojave Desert. Her peaceful new life is disturbed when Morgan calls and tells her that they inherited a bar in far-off South Carolina. Scottie is hesitant to take Morgan up on the offer, but tragedy once again plays his heartless hand and changes Scottie's mind and circumstances. Scottie hits the road with nothing but her tears and her guitar. When she finally sees the bar, she's horrified, the place is completely in shambles. Scottie and Morgan find themselves in a hostile world of raging motorcycle clubs, gun toting gang bangers, a satanic flesh merchant and a deadly neighbor who is hell bent on sabotaging their efforts to survive. Drowning in a sea of despair, Scottie learns from her departed aunt to see her true spirit and rise above her tribulations and fight the demons bent on her destruction. This film is rock and roll music, it's old west-style bar fights with a little Southern Mysticism mixed in. It's a wild, emotional adventure about the will of a brother and sister who find the strength to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds.
Keywords: tattoo
She wants to be free - at any costs - and sometimes your friends pose the greatest obstacles.
No one ever said life would be such a battle...
Bobby: Hit the bricks, dicks.
Plot
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy ex-patriots lost in their own dreams and regrets.
Keywords: aging, bull, drowning, female-nudity, hippie, homosexual, independent-film, nudity, racial-slur, religious-cult
Chicken: Okay nigger. You start singing now. You start singing now. (sings) Mammy's little baby loves shortnin' shortnin', Mammy's little baby loves shortnin' bread.
Chicken: Nothing is real. Everything is permitted.
Chicken: I said "I wanna rape you!" (pours drink over his own head)
No life, no life without a fall
Now the wind has swept us all
Down to this mission wall
And the love, the love we pray to keep
Has buried us so deep
And me singing this same sad song
How I fell into her arms
Her warm and loving arms
She said: You can never be free
You can never be like me
Now I'm a mad dog and I'll be
Now you honey on my tree
Whether sweet tomorrow
In the mellow wallow
Oh there's still time to borrow
And in the mellow wallow, yeah
We will never have it all
Tonight I'm screaming at the wall
Peel the paint of my window rail
Touch, material has no choice
Peel the paint off with my voice
Curse this city's deplex song
Now I'm sleeping on the floor
Honey I'm soaking wet and
Oh they're coming out, they're coming out, they're coming for me
As long as we are free
We'll be doomed to live and die
Under the great suburban sky
And I'll always holler
In the mellow wallow
Oh there's still time to borrow
And in the mellow wallow
Jesus
Heaven, heaven head of hell
You are treating me quite well
Washed me up upon a shore
Now I'm scratching down your door
All the words become my hands
Cold and broken on the floor
Peeling gooseflesh off your back
Pulling back your long black hair
Now this beauty is my queen
Skinny arms so very slow
A perfume neck and a blanket so small
Oh, what beauty, oh what bridge
I will sleep tomorrow
And in the mellow wallow
Oh, there's still time to borrow
And in the mellow wallow
Oh, and I fall to be controlled
Lost and swept away
I will always wait it out
Won't you listen now
Let me sleep tomorrow inn
We'll never have it all
Now the wind has swept us all
Down to this mission wall
And see, the rhythm is your hand
Speed the rhythm, speed the band
My legs are all buried in salt, the way.
As my lips move out all of my words, the way.
But this can't be all that we have to wait.
But this can't be all that we have to wait.
Pressing and pulling these pains, the way.
They listen and listen for all the way.
But this can't be all that we have to wait.
But this can't be all that we have to wait.
Do you hear the wind, child?
Calling out the salt plains.
Listen to the wind, child,
It's calling, calling out your name.
I was born of sun beams,
Warming up our limbs.
Born up from the earth, child.
No, I'll never come back down,
Never come down from here.
No, I'll never come back down,
Never come down from here.
No, I'll never come back down,
Never come down from here.
No, I'll never come back down,
Never come down from here.
No, I'll never come back down,
Never come down from here.
No, I'll never come back down,
Never come down from here.
(But this can't be all that we have to wait.)
No, I'll never come back down,
Never come down from here.
(But this can't be all that we have to wait.)
No, I'll never come back down,
I smile
I cry
I breathe
You are good
You give
I take
Life moves
Ends too soon
There's a never-ending passion running in my veins
And I'm drunk on its conviction
And I savor every taste
I want to be salt
Salt of the earth
Then You can rain down Your living water
And quench the thirst
Take my best and all my faults
Grind them up and make me salt
Lord, make me salt They work
They dream
They hope
Like I do
They need
They strive
Life's hard without You
It slowly kills a part of me
Your word's not heard
So use what You can of me to help preserve
The good that's in this world
It won't be easy
'Cause nothing that matters ever is
So I will let go
Swallow all my pride and comfort
I promise You
I'd like to take all the salt from the seaAnd put it
inside of your car
I think that would preserve you
And keep you from going to far
I walk the corner, the street lights
Flicker and frown at me
I don't know where you are tonight
But I know where you're not
The kids are waiting to see you at Christmas
But you're not coming back
And I hope I can get out of bed some time soon
But all I can say is please
Please let me lay here
Please let me lay here
Please let me lay here
Please let me lay here
I'd like to take all the salt from the sea
And pour inside of your heart
I think that would preserve the love
That would keep us from falling apart
I can't do this on my own
I need you by my side
I don't know who you are tonight
But I know who you're not
And the kids are waiting to see you at Christmas
But you're not coming back
And they hope I can get
Out of bed some time soon
But all I can say is please
Please let me lay here
Please let me lay here
Please let me lay here
You have a name that can't be sung
Your mouth wilts at confession
So down your throat another bottle
A filthy word in your stomach
This story of love, a fantastic one
Easy to live without
When ripe with conviction
Oh doggy it's abandonment now but
I'll come back for you with a home built for us
My fault unconditional lies
Called a coward of many sorts
But unlike you I give too much, and take much more
Deadweight on my shoulders
You gotta see this now
From up on my rooftop
You're not half as big as you think you are
But as I look over the edge, I wanna jump so badly
To get a better look at me being loved
Let my love spill out
I call out to you I bleed too real
I shut my eyes tight
Stretch my arms out wide
The intention was never
To watch my hair grow long
It's not all for naught, no
It's not all for naught, no
(Verse)
Happy for my room
And try to forget it
You kill me, I know,
The memory, I let it.
Hearts don't fly,
But they can run like hell when they have to.
Didn't leave you a note,
I didn't leave you a photo,
I didn't leave you a chance,
But I left you, I guess you know
You're wondering now how long it takes
For I start missing you.
(Chorus)
Cause you ain't worth the time,
You ain't worth the pain,
You ain't worth the spit in my mouth
When I scream out your name.
You ain't worth the life,
They hand out in the town this small
You ain't worth the sound of the TV
From the room down the hall.
On my waiting salt.
(Verse)
Six years of crying,
That's all that you gave me,
Not one more thing,
Not even a baby.
We will close one time,
But I guess God is smarter than him.
You broke every promise,
You broke every whisper
You broke any other moment,
You kissed her and you never thought twice,
You never gave a damn.
(Chorus)
Cause you ain't worth the time,
You ain't worth the pain,
You ain't worth the spit in my mouth
When I scream out your name.
You ain't worth the life,
They hand out in the town this small
You ain't worth the sound of the TV
Coming from the room down the hall.
On my waiting salt.
(Bridge)
All of the salt gathered from the seas
Can be collected from journals and prayers
It take you a month but someday's still lived with a spoon.
To pour on you.
(Chorus)
Cause you ain't worth the time,
You ain't worth the pain,
You ain't worth the spit in my mouth
When I scream out your name.
You ain't worth the cost to repair
The hole in the kitchen dried warm.
You ain't worth the good advice
Written on a dirty bathroom stall.
Boy, am I waiting salt, salt
My waiting salt.
(Verse)
I paid for my room
I try to forget it.
It kill me, I know,
The memory, if I let it.
Hearts don't fly,
(Oh safe towards yourself)
(She wants you with all your heart)
Between me always spinning ride
I slowly roll and seem to fly
The taste of salt and spinning ice
The taste of you it brings me higher
In this your shine
It's always time
It's always time
Oh we're only salt
Oh we're only salt
Oh we're only salt
It always felt like suicide
It always takes my life aside
To say I might, to say I will
The hardest part the heart is real
We miss your shine
It's only time
It's only time
It's only salt
It's only seas
It's only time
It's only time
I want to see myself in time
We miss your shine
It's only time
It's only time
Don't be alarmed please don't take it personally
But you're acting out on everybody here
You're ability your virility's in doubt
So one more time you clench your fists
Scream and shout
You high-five your friends
Like you're jocks at a football
It seems you don't know when to quit
The crowd stares in silence
As you practice violence
To show you're the king of the pit
What now we're sick of it
So now no one goes
To the front at shows anymore
Because we don't want to be
Kicked in the head
Or punched in the nose
We don't care where you're from
We don't care what set you claim
Why don't you get involved
You don't even know our names
Any scene worth it's salt
Would vilify aggression
It seems that aggression's all you know
So stop throwing your fists
Put out your hand
Participate in the show
I’ve tried to be your nourishment
but we starve
I’ve tried to be your confidant
through my flaws
I’ve tried to make us leisure class
but we’re poor
I’ve tried to be your resistance
yet how easily we fall
to breathe from the inside
the salt of the ocean
the waves are transparent
strands of emotion
I’ve tried to be your paramour
but I’m cold
I’ve tried to be so nonchalant
but I’m bold
I’ve tried to be the savoir fare
you don’t need
I’ve tried to take your breath away
yet how easily you breathe
to breathe from the inside
the salt of the ocean
the waves are transparent
strands of emotion
you can’t say I’ve never tried to love you
How can you lose your song?
When you have sung it for so long?
How can you forget your dance, your dance
When THAT dance is all you ever had?
It must be, it must be true
You can't SEPARATE THE TWO
Oh no, you can't
It's impossible to do
JUST like the salt in the stew
Oh my, it's all A part of you
One thing that life cannot do
Life can't do it NO
It can't take your salt from you
So when life brings a chance, a chance
For you to give your part, TO give your part away
Don't just stand there FEELING scared
Don't be afraid
'Cause there could be a treasure right there
Now listen, listen to THE truth
It does not matter, doesn't matter what you do
Still gonna BE you
Just like the salt in the stew
Yeah, it's all A part of you
And one thing, the one thing that life cannot do
Hey, hey, hey, can't do it NO
It can´t take your salt from you
Life can't take it, you DON'T give it
Life can't take it
There are many things in the world
And you are one of them
Many things keep happening and
You are one of them
And the happening that is you
Keeps falling like snow
On the landscape of not you
Adrift upon the irish sea/ dreaming all on the desert
flats
Smash the atom with your back teeth grind/
Touch my face with your foot.
-Long tone long tone/ swept away the salt/
Slat line salt line/ swept away
Catacombed in Sunday clothes/
gathering the wood to burn myself gone
My flower my flower/ I'm still pretty.
The blinding glare on the dry cracked skin
White heat on the open wound again
The swollen tongue and the blistered soul
You've lost your way and you're untouchable
Layers of rock peel like an onion skin
Can you believe in a secret order of things
The night's so coloured, so faint and dead calm
You're miles away from your long lost home
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
Salt
The way that you're walking and the look in your eye
Tells of your horror and untold desires
From the jump up country to the shimmering sky
Try to find the river but the river is dry
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
Salt, Salt
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
Salt, Salt
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
I don't want to go no further
You can if you want to
Through the desert
And towards solitude.
Runs the black horse.
I didn't look back anymore.
The desert,
And famine ruled the earth.
With head erect,
Pronounce rambling sentences.
Drivel
As I recalled the night.
Drivel,
The essence remains undying.
The moon,
How I love the moon.
And you,
How I loved you.
Into a blizzard,
2000 cavalrymen.
There forever.
Where the world coils and wavers.
It is deserted,
Towards dissolution.
So spit,
All that remains is salt.
Drivel
As I recalled the night.
Drivel,
The essence remains undying.
The moon,
How I love the moon.
And you,
I am no wise man
But I reckon that the Gods of old
Bound the secret fire of life
Inside this dram of gold
Bringing warmth to the cold
Helps a human heart be bold
Keeps me healthy, keeps me young
Animates to love and song
Malt, smoke and peat
The land beneath my feet
Salty sea and open sky
Hear the seagulls cry
Acqua Vitae
Uisge Beatha
Water of Life
I don’t wanna be the one to carve the scars,
To draw a line and break your heart,
Do the honours and make a start.
‘Cause I’ve been waiting, procrastinating,
Hiding from facing my conscience,
Free my shoulders, rid me of these monsters
But we’re fading, fading away,
Yeah we’re fading, fading away.
And if the last thing that you’re gonna say
It shouldn’t have ended this way.
I’ll take it with a grain of salt,
And be on my way.
But the last thing that I’m gonna say;
I didn’t have the guts
To put you through the pain.
Take it with a grain of salt,
I’ll be on my way.
We’re fading, fading away.
And I’ve been bleeding guilt from my heart my mind,
I’m sick of doing time for the pettiest crimes.
Don’t judge me with your jury,
Just read the fucking signs.
I want to tear apart, terrorise your heart
It plays me like a game.
I want to feel, I want wounds to heal,
I don’t want to be this safe.
But we’re fading, fading away.
And if the last thing that you’re gonna say
It shouldn’t have ended this way.
I’ll take it with a grain of salt,
And be on my way.
But the last thing that I’m gonna say;
I didn’t have the guts
To put you through the pain.
Take it with a grain of salt,
I’ll be on my way.
You’ve got the answers,
Why don’t you answer my questions?
Why do I live, why do I breathe this tension?
I want war, just to fight, I want dark when it’s light.
I don’t know anymore,
What’s wrong or what’s right.
Fading, fading away.
We’re Fading, fading away.
And if the last thing that I’m gonna say
Shouldn’t have ended this way.
I’ll take it with a grain of salt,
Did you ever get the felling you're being followed?
Are you not familiar with the Revelations of St.John
The final book of the Bible, prophesied the apocalypse
He forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand
Or on his forehead so that no one shall be able
To buy or sell unless he has that mark
Which is the name of the beast and the number of his name
And the number of the beast is '6 6 6'
What can such a specific prophecy mean?
What is the mark?
Well, the mark is the bar-code
The ubiquitous bar-code that you'll find on every bog roll
And every packet of Johnnies and every poxy-pork-pie
And every bar-code is divided into two parts by three markers
And those three markers are always represented by the number six
'6 6 6'
And what does it say?
No one shall be able to buy or sell without that mark
And now what they're planning to do
In order to eradicate all credit card fraud
And in order to precipitate a totally cashless society?
What they're planning to do
And they've already tested it on the American troops
They're gonna subcutaneously laser-tattoo
That mark onto your right hand or onto your forehead
They're going to replace plastic with flesh, fact
In the same book of Revelations
When the Seven Seals are broken open on the Day of Judgment
And the seven angels blow their trumpets
When the third angel blows her trumpet
Wormwood will fall from the sky
And wormwood will poison a third part of all the waters
And a third part of all the land and many, many, many people will die
And you know what the Russian translation of wormwood is?
Chernobyl, fact
On August the 18th, 1999
The planets of our solar system
Are going to line up into the shape of a cross
They're going to line up in the big signs
Of Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio
Which just happen to correspond
To the four beasts of the apocalypse
As mentioned in the book of Daniel, another fact
Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed
That it would evolve into the frog?
And when that first frog shimmied out of the water
And employed its vocal chords in order to attract a mate
[Incomprehensible] a predator
Do you think that that frog ever imagined
That incipient croak would evolve
Into all the languages of the world
Into all the literature of the word, possibly?
And just as that froggie could never have possibly
Conceived of Shakespeare
So we can never possibly imagine our destiny
Look, if you take the whole of time represented by one year
But only in the first few moments of the 1st of January
It's a long way to go
And no, we're not going to sprout extra limbs and wings and things
Because evolution itself is evolving
When it comes, the apocalypse itself will be a part of the process
Of that leap of evolution
By the very definition of Apocalypse
Mankind must cease to exist, at least in a material form
We'll have evolved into something that transcends matter
(Oh safe towards yourself)
(She wants you with all your heart)
Between me always spinning ride
I slowly roll and seem to fly
The taste of salt and spinning ice
The taste of you it brings me higher
In this your shine
It's always time
It's always time
Oh we're only salt
Oh we're only salt
Oh we're only salt
It always felt like suicide
It always takes my life aside
To say I might, to say I will
The hardest part the heart is real
We miss your shine
It's only time
It's only time
It's only salt
It's only seas
It's only time
It's only time
I want to see myself in time
We miss your shine
It's only time
Ooooh...
Burn in the distance,
I can see the shape--it won't be long 'til you do
something mean
I heard the wind whisper something to my mind
I feel feverish, a little bit stretched beneath my skin
It's the moment before when something stops and
something begins, I can taste salt on your skin
I have found another place to play
And slowly and steadily, I am falling away
And so I'm finding I'm getting the right thing
And finally you are losing your head
I always wanted to taste the bittersweet and you're
swept away.
Ooooh...
Birds and days torment the hours, induce my shape
On other matters bring me air to breathe and let me
feel salt in my hair
And I feel feverish, a little bit stretched beneath my
skin
It's the moment where the fair days end... Yeah, I can
taste salt on your skin
You have found a better place to play
And, slowly and steadily, are falling away
And I'm finding I'm getting the right thing
And finally you are losing your head
You always wanted to the taste the bittersweet and
you're swept away
Oh, I will be rolled over and over
You're getting pulled down underwater
And as the bittersweet digs in, I can taste salt on
your skin.
Ooooh...