DJ Spruce will be spinning some Halloween tunes starting at 7pm and following the movie. Absolut Vodka drink specials throughout the night, giveaways, and a costume contest. $5 door cover. Doors open at 7pm with DJ Spruce kicking off the party. Movie starts at 9pm sharp. $5 party favor bags (100% proceeds goes to Rebel Rescue Ranch Animal Rescue).
Though his mama told him not to play with guns, he shot a man in Reno "just to watch him die." His first band, while serving in the Air Force in Germany, was called the Barbarians. More than any other country artist, Johnny Cash understood the predicament of the outlaw; his prison concerts at Folsom and San Quentin helped underscore the notion that the inmates weren't all monsters, but men who'd simply made bad decisions. His infamous "middle finger" photo, taken at San Quentin by rock photographer (and fellow rebel) Jim Marshall came in response to a request to pose for a shot for the warden. Years later, when Cash was in the midst of a career revival engineered by producer Rick Rubin, they ran an ad in Billboard that featured the photo and a feisty caption thanking "the Nashville music establishment and country radio for your support."
A frenetic barrage of black leather, steel-studded gloves, wrap-around shades, and rebel-yell grimaces, Burst City is less a narrative movie than a splattered smoothie of images from style mag street-fashion shoots and 1980s rock videos. From the speed-thrill surge of its opening sequences on Tokyo freeways through the dark bacchanal of the club scenes involving Japanese punk bands like the Stalin and the Roosters, Ishii and his team inscribe the aesthetic into the celluloid itself like no other punk movie before or since, using machine-gun editing, grainy 16mm film, jump-cuts between color and black-and-white, and other retina-wrenching techniques. Often described as cyberpunk, the result is closer to a mash-up of Mad Max, Liquid Sky, and the Japanese gangster genre of yakuza films. Ishii understands punk as an eye-gouging battery of poses and stunts. In its unrelenting commitment to its own mania, Burst City is a smash.
Record producer Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Studios and Sun Records in Memphis, where he discovered Presley, predicted that he would go on in Hollywood to become another Dean. Talking to celebrity columnist Lloyd Shearer of the Sunday Parade, Presley spoke of the ways in which he and Dean both personified the figure of the rebel:
[1] Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994), 243, 327. Weisbart also produced three more Elvis movies: Flaming Star, Follow That Dream (1962), and Kid Galahad (1962).
Battle of the CapitolConflictSecond RebellionDateLate autumn - winter, 75 ATTPlaceThe CapitolOutcomeDecisive rebel victory
The Battle of the Capitol was the last major large-scale engagement of the Second Rebellion. This final battle pitted the Capitol's Peacekeepers against an invading rebel coalition, led by forces from District 13, for control of the city and Panem's government.[1]
After a period of widespread civil unrest, rebels took up arms against the Capitol in an all-out war to unify and liberate the districts.[2] By September, they were all allied except for District 2, which was the seat of the Capitol's military power and its last loyalist stronghold.[3]
In the Battle of District 2, rebels strategically bombed the mountainside along avalanche paths, burying the military compound inside the Nut and forcing its surviving personnel to evacuate into the town square.[4] Upon their surrender, District 2 joined forces with the rest of the rebels. Together they fortified supply lines, tended to the wounded, and reorganized their troops.[5] Rebels then set their sights on the Capitol.[6]
A pod is an obstacle or weapon designed by Gamemakers to trap or kill anyone in proximity of its activation. The Capitol planted many pods around the city long before the war, adding to them over the years, and these served as a defense mechanism against the rebels' advance.[1]
Unbeknownst to the Capitol, a rebel insider had secured a map of active pods before fleeing the city with Plutarch Heavensbee. With the use of a Holo, rebel units could access a digital version of this map and use it to navigate around the marked pods. or else purposefully trigger them at a safe distance, like defusing a bomb.[1]
However, the intel was several months old by the time it was put into use in the Battle of the Capitol. As a result, some pods were mislabeled, leaving rebels facing threats they were unprepared to address.[1] In other cases, pods were entirely missing from the map because they had been planted later, so unsuspecting rebels triggered pods where they thought there were none.[7][8][9]
At one point, rebels began to let citizens' abandoned cars drift down the street to trigger pods, then follow after the vehicles unharmed. Once the Capitol caught on, they would manually disable a pod before the car could trigger it, then reenable it when rebel forces followed.[10]
Propaganda spots, more commonly known as propos, were televised materials used to promote the rebel cause as part of the Airtime Assault.[11] Both the rebels and the Capitol aired propos throughout much of the war, including the Battle of the Capitol.
Members of Squad 451, also known as the Star Squad, were sharpshooters who served as "the on-screen faces of the invasion". They were also a part of the disinformation team; if rebels only shot at the pods on Plutarch's map, the Capitol would quickly figure out they had one, rendering it useless. It subsequently fell to Squad 451 to draw suspicion away by shooting at less important targets.[1] Soon after, they would be derailed from their original goal in favor of Katniss Everdeen's unsanctioned mission to assassinate President Snow.[8]
The rebel invasion of the Capitol began when rebel forces captured several tunnels that led through the Rocky Mountains, allowing the rebels to circumvent scaling the mountains, which had led to their defeat in the first war. In addition, the fall of the Nut in District 2 resulted in the loss of the majority of the Capitol's hovercraft fleet. This enabled the rebels to achieve air superiority and establish a beachhead at the perimeter of the city. This allowed for constant reinforcement and supplies, while simultaneously blocking any possibility of retreat by Capitol forces.
During the first few days of the invasion, the rebels went largely unnoticed by the Capitol's military, as they faced little resistance. Capitol military commanders urged their forces to begin fighting, believing that sufficient brutality could turn the tide of the invasion. However, there were no illusions to Capitol leaders that the city would fall.
Squad 451 consisted of nine soldiers accompanied by a four-person camera crew. During the early days of the battle, the Squad entered an abandoned Capitol neighborhood (staying behind the front lines in order to film propos for the rebels), and accidentally triggered a pod that sent a metal dart into the side of Leeg 2's head, instantly killing her. Leeg 1 broke down after her sister's death, and later on in the day Peeta Mellark was sent as a replacement. This alarmed the squad, as he had not fully recovered from his hijacking, making him dangerous, especially to Katniss. Boggs informed Katniss that President Coin never liked her and wanted Peeta rescued from the arena instead, proving that Coin saw Katniss as a threat over the new Presidential position as there would be a free election after the war ended. Boggs believed Coin sent Peeta to kill Katniss, as he would not be able to control himself.
Most of the rebel losses during the battle came not from the Capitol's military forces, but rather from strategically placed traps commonly referred to as "pods". These pods resulted in the deaths of numerous rebels. Nevertheless, the rebel advance continued, causing massive damage to Capitol infrastructure and mounting civilian deaths. As the battle dragged on, it became clear to the rebels that the Capitol's remaining forces were being deployed in strategically important locations, not the whole city. Capitol commanders also began deploying their troops in positions to delay or outright block the rebel advance on the city center. This tactic became increasingly ineffective because of the rebels' constant reinforcements. The Capitol troops were under-supplied and had no replacement for soldiers they were losing. Where the Capitol troops had withdrawn, pods were expected to hold the rebel troops. This did not work, but did cause huge rebel losses. The nature of the pods was widely varied, ranging from conventional weapons such as gunfire and explosives to muttations and an unknown chemical that resembled a large black wave. Nevertheless, the rebels continued their advance. The city became the site of numerous propaganda clips shot by Squad 451 in the opening days of the battle, but as the fighting dragged on, the propaganda stopped being produced.
In the following weeks of battle, the Capitol's defense began collapsing as the rebels pushed forward. During this period, the rebels marked out four distinct paths, simply referred to as the A, B, C, and D Lines, to the center of the Capitol. The Capitol authorities begin evacuating civilians towards the center of the city.
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