DAILY TELEGRAPH : SUMMER

POSTED BY: Howard
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 18:26
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HOWARD

Monday, October 10, 2005 6:06 AM

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THELONECROUTON

Monday, October 10, 2005 10:20 AM

"I had to learn for real. I did 95 per cent of my own stunts and after I finished work on the movie I felt a lot more powerful. Before, I had been a vegetarian for 10 years, but by the end of shooting I was eating steaks."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH... take that you leaf-eaters!

HOWARD

Monday, October 10, 2005 12:34 PM

As a Vegetarian I found this to be more evidence of how character development both on and off screen is sold out and destroyed by the commercial movie system. As for your joy in it well that is the satisfaction of a shallow mind for sure not to mention taking joy in seeing the movie system ruin both a sensitive character on-screen and a sensitive human being off-screen!!

XEROGRAVITY

Monday, October 10, 2005 1:11 PM

Nonsense. I'm an ex-vegetarian of sorts. Tried it, but could not sustain the physically demanding regimen of real life minus the carbs and protein you get from carnivorous pleasures.

Summer Glau is a ballerina who leapt into acting and took on hardcore martial arts training to become the reaver-owning barbrawling headcase we all know and love (River).

Try beating down a barroom full of hardcore bikers on a fluffy diet of sprouts and spinach leaves. Fight off cannibals (how's that for anti-vegan) on a diet of beans and fruit juice. Spinach worked for Popeye but doesn't seem to cut it in the real world.

Either way, she's still hawt! hubba hubba

XG <-- smitten w/Summer Glau (minus the schizo act)

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

HOWARD

Monday, October 10, 2005 1:31 PM

Your concept of a Vegetarian/Vegan diet is pure reactionary ignorance. I do not eat leaves (outside of a side salad) and such I have full enriching meals everynight.
Your problem as with most is ignorance on three levels: cuisine and culture and biology.

Human beings are Apes. Which is the most powerful of all Apes? Sharing 98% of our DNA the Silver-back Gorilla. Show me a human carni who is willing to pick a fight with a Gorilla. Gorillas are 100% Vegetarian.

As for Summer Glau her best work was done when she was a Vegetarian.

1. As a Ballerina
2. As an actress and ballerina on ANGEL
3. On FIREFLY

The depth and substance of her work in the above mentioned examples exceeds in artistic and intellectual quality and accomplishment anything allowed by the constraints of a soul-sell-out theatrical blockbuster.

MSCKAREN

Monday, October 10, 2005 1:55 PM

Well, I'm a vegetarian, too, but I don't think anybody is less of a human being if they eat meat. I suspect Summer was a vegetarian to keep her lithe figure as a ballerina - it probably was not an ethical choice to begin with or, at least, that's my hope. If she DID violate her ethics to make a film then that would be sad.

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HOWARD

Monday, October 10, 2005 2:09 PM

She could have taken the more sensible
compromise.
Eating Fish not Meat.
Fish that is wild not farmed has more benefit
without the dangers and disease that come with
meat.
30 years ago...American cinema had substance
while television was considered throw-away and
shallow. Today we have a reverse reality. The
only depth we get from American Cinema these
days is in fact the best of American television
while corporate censorship has reduced
theatrical movies into empty physicallity and
a cross between video games and a theme park
ride.
Why couldn't Joss write River for character
depth as in FIREFLY so that Summer could prove
herself as an actress and not an inter-galatic
ninja or marine?
All of the major studios have the same regime
these days...more physical less cerebral in
order to ensure ideas are at a minimum so to
discourage audiences away from critical
thinking.

THELURKER

Monday, October 10, 2005 2:11 PM

It is ludicrous to say that the character of River or the person who is Summer were "ruined" simply because of the dietary choices of the actress.

HOWARD

Monday, October 10, 2005 2:15 PM

THINK DEEPER!!

IT IS A REFLECTION AND ASPECT OF A
BROADER WHOLE!

A SELL-OUT TO A CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT
REGIME THAT DEVOURS AND DESTROYS ALL THAT
IS GOOD IN OUR CULTURE.

FLYINGTAMS

Monday, October 10, 2005 2:32 PM

Howard, you clearly have a screw loose - see a head doctor.

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