"hero"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe I don't watch the right movies, but I'm not clear about what anybody
short of Batman could have done in the roughly 90 seconds the scene took to
play out. Don't forget how constrained the audience was by the rows of
seats, the flickering light, and the flying lead, and that Holmes was fully
encased in bullet-, knife-, and fist-resistant Kevlar.

The police performed superbly in nabbing the guy in the parking lot, alive,
and defusing his booby traps before they blew the roof off the apartment
house.


JL

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Geoff Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:

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> I must say I've been having that thought. Of course it's easy for me to
> say--I wasn't there. But still, it's sad that there actually weren't very
> many real heroes in that horror (a few lifesaving actions aside). Geoffrey
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> > Where were the heroes?
> > Maybe I have been watching too many Combat! episodes on Youtube
> > lately, or
> > maybe I just flashed back on basic infantry training of 45 years ago,
> > but
> > it seems to me that the most effective reaction to an inescapable
> > ambush is
> > to face the enemy and charge. At least when the gunman's rifle jammed,
> > every swingin' dick in Theatre 9 should have rushed him. Then we could
> > have
> > passed out the medals.
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