Wanted

Intro

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• assassin
• versatile
• miniseries
• stereotypical

• follow in the footsteps
• based on
• departure
• tailor-made

• reel you in
• studly

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How much do we really know about our parents? For the most part, we rely on what they tell us about their lives before we were born. But, of course, they want their children to think of them in a particular way, so they might tell things slightly differently than they happened.

But nothing beats thinking your father died when you were an infant and discovering that he was actually a professional killer who was alive until just recently. Yeah, imagine that. That’s what happens in Wanted. The character has to decide if he will follow in his father’s footsteps or if he will continue with his boring life. What would you do?

Mason’s less worried about that question, and more worried about if one of his favorite comics has been made into a good movie or not. Listen in.

Dialog

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Mason

Marni

Mason:  I’ve been having a lot of friends tell me they went to go see Wanted and that it was really fun…

Marni:  Yeah!

Mason:  ...and I believe them, but I kind of am protesting the movie personally.

Marni:  Why?

Mason:  Well, you know it was based on a comic book series…

Marni:  Right.

Mason:  ...that I read and really enjoyed and the movie made some departures.

Marni:  OK. Yeah. Well, that’s always the case though, right? I mean, there are some exceptions, perhaps, but usually if you have a favorite book or comic, the movie’s going to disappoint you.

Mason:  Yeah. Exactly. It’s like, so, I’m not saying they did a bad thing. They didn’t, like, commit any sort of sins by making the movie, it’s just kind of like, I’m excluding myself from it.

Marni:  I see. OK. I’m very intrigued by it. Perhaps it’s the actors. I’m an Angelina Jolie fan and I do love James McAvoy.

Mason:  It seems very tailor-made for the two of them, you know.

Marni:  Well it is an interesting mix, like, I never would have thought, “Oh, James McAvoy as this studly assassin.”

Mason:  You know, he’s a really versatile guy. He was in this Children of Doom miniseries the Sci Fi Channel did that he had kind of some more action-y moments.

Marni:  OK, so check out James McAvoy...So Wanted...not gonna see it, huh?

Mason:  I won’t endorse it. That’s where I think I’m going with that.

Marni:  Yeah? To me it’s interesting. Being an outsider, I look at the trailers and whatnot and think, “OK, it could be a very stereotypical movie.” I’m never usually one for the big action…

Mason:  They’re reeling you in, though.

Marni:  Yeah, they’re reeling me in. And perhaps it’s the actors, but I think that whole elite group of assassins, vengeance, that whole thing…I don’t know. I’m into it.

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