L.C. Kanon's Blog, page 117
March 17, 2013
Top 10 female butt kickers of fiction and film
LC Kanon here, bringing you my top 10 female butt kickers of fiction and film. Put your mitts up folks, these girls are feisty!
10. Pam Grier, In… Everything!
I welcome you to the annals of the butt-kicking hall of fame with number 10 on our list, the invincible Pam Grier. From Coffy to Jackie Brown and countless others in between, Pam was “our” Arnold Schwarzenegger and one of the coolest chicks in the game.
9. Jiao Long, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Equal parts brat and warrior, Jiao Long from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon wants it all! The boy, the swordsmanship, and the martial arts mentor. She almost gets it, too. But what is that old saying? Women can’t have it all? I hate that.
8. Trinity, The Matrix Trilogies
The woman in shiny black leather gives everyone (including Neo) a run for their money in the Matrix trilogies. The opening scene in the Matrix when she unleashes some hell on a SWAT team is my personal fav.
7. Landlady, Kung Fu Hustle
From the twisted mind of Stephen Chow comes this no-nonsense, trash-talking, kung-fu master from Kung Fu Hustle. One of the best scenes is when she goes to battle with nothing more than her beautiful singing voice. You’ll see what I mean.
6. Mallory, Haywire
Haywire’s Mallory is 100% lethal, and nothing less than a female gladiator! The hotel scene when she takes her “hubby” downtown is proof positive that this is one bad-ass babe.
5. Nikita La Femme Nikita
Nikita is the epitome of the from-the-ashes heroine in the butt-kicking hall of fame. Equal parts femininity and cold-hearted reserve, Nikita leaves nothing but carnage when she’s out on a job.
4. Lori, Total Recall
Probably the best representation of the lethal use of feminine wiles, Lori kicks some serious Arnold tush in Total Recall. She then proceeds to follow him to Mars for some more punishment before getting a divorce in the rudest of methods.
3. Elle Driver, Kill Bill 1 & 2
The fierce bad girl of Taranteno’s Kill Bill franchise has a lot going for her—her mysterious eye patch for starters. There are also those signature speeches to her victims as they lay dying. This is an example of the latter, a reason to always remember the word “gargantuan.”
2. The Bride, Kill Bill 1 & 2
The Bride is a down-and-dirty bad girl, right down to the eye-snatching, decapitating madness represented in the Kill Bill franchise. In a sentence: the trailer scene from Kill Bill 2. Few can rival her death count in these movies, and that’s why she’s number 2 on my list.
1. Leigh, Spring Break
I’m guilty of nepotism by putting Leigh at number one on the list, but Leigh is one part Nikita and equal parts Mean Girls, all rolled up into one deadly co-ed combination. From slaying cartel operatives to offing bullies, she is truly the most butt-kickingly baddest of them all!
March 16, 2013
March 15, 2013
openroadmedia:
March 12th is National Alfred Hitchcock Day!...
March 12th is National Alfred Hitchcock Day! Check out the 6 great reasons why Hitchcock is still the master of suspense here.
March 14, 2013
fantagraphics:
tieduptight:
Here’s a new screenprint in three...
March 13, 2013
housingworksbookstore:
I would oh so proudly hang this over my...
I would oh so proudly hang this over my bed. A little weird because it’s really TV show fan art so they all look like the actors, instead of like, book fan art, I guess? Whatever, winter is coming. (via A Sneak Peek at Mondo’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Art Show – Flavorwire)
March 12, 2013
March 8, 2013
powells:
Friday reading material? Can’t decide what we should...
Friday reading material? Can’t decide what we should try first… “juke joint binges” or “cabins for the night”?
March 7, 2013
housingworksbookstore:
readandbreathe:
“Every bookseller in...
“Every bookseller in town had been in her library.” (via my friend Sean Concannon)
Hey now, I think an unbridled lust that as picky as rare books only is hardly bimbo-level. That sounds like a classy bookslut to me.
#Kindle #Morningcommute.
#Kindle #Morningcommute.
