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Liam’s Got a Gun:
Gun Control Advocate Liam Neeson Rarely Without a Gun in Action Films
By Paul Davis
Actor
Liam Neeson and I have something in common besides our age. We are both
unimpressed with ABC’s “The View” — but for entirely different reasons.
In
a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Neeson stated
he was unimpressed with the show and was uncomfortable during his appearance.
He was embarrassed by the co-hosts gushing about being near him on stage, and
by Joy Behar professing her crush on him. Behar stated that after she died, she
wanted her ashes spread all over the actor, a rather peculiar romantic notion,
if you ask me.
Neeson
would have much preferred to discuss gun violence in America, which was the
subject of the segment on the talk show while the actor was off-stage, waiting
for his cue. Gun control is a subject that Neeson is most interested in.
I’m
unimpressed with “The View” as the TV program features two women, Whoopi
Goldberg and Joy (more like joyless) Behar, who are woefully ignorant of
history, civics and political philosophy, and have but a cursory knowledge of
current events.
Jim
Geraghty, National Review’s senior correspondent, posted a tweet a
while back in which he stated, “‘The View’ is a show about current events,
hosted by several celebrities who don’t know much about current events, and who
adamantly refuse to learn anything new about current events.”
Goldberg
once suggested that President Biden appoint his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, as the
Surgeon General of the United States, despite the fact that she has an Ed.D. in
education and is certainly not a medical doctor. And Behar stated on “The View”
that American gun laws will change “once black people get guns in this
country.” Of course, many black people already own guns, so this comment
illustrates how clueless she truly is.
Goldberg
and Behar are quite grim and angry, which is surprising, considering they are
comedians. I don’t often watch the TV gabfest, but a woman I know who watches
the program regularly told me she has rarely heard either of the two comedians
tell a joke or relate an amusing or clever anecdote.
With
all of the educated, accomplished and clever women of all political persuasions
in the world, why are Goldberg and Behar highly paid TV commentators?
Poor
Liam Neeson was disappointed that he could not discuss gun control on “The
View.” The Irish actor, who became an American citizen, is a serious gun
control advocate, telling a British newspaper in 2014, “I am totally for gun
control in the US. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there
are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.”
Yet
in nearly every film he has made since “Taken” in 2008, he’s toting a gun and
shooting bad guys. In “Taken,” his character makes a much-quoted speech: “I
don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for
ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very
particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.
Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go
now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you.
But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
As
he does: with a gun.
Neeson
was on “The View” promoting his new film “Marlowe.” In the film, he portrays
the late, great crime novelist Raymond Chandler’s iconic character, private
detective Philip Marlowe.
Marlowe,
of course, carries a gun.
The
new film is not to be confused with 1969’s “Marlowe,” which starred the late
James Garner as Marlowe and was based on Raymond Chandler’s great crime novel,
“The Little Sister.” The film is a favorite of mine, and James Garner is my
favorite film Marlowe. He was big, handsome and smoked a pipe like Marlowe in
the novels. He was also very good at “cracking wise” like Chandler’s Marlowe.
Liam
Neeson is no James Garner, in my view, nor is he as good an actor as Humphrey
Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Powers Booth, or any of the other fine actors who have
portrayed Marlowe in the past.
The
New “Marlowe” film is based on the 2014 novel “The Black-Eyed
Blonde” by British author John Banville, using the pen name Benjamin
Black. I haven’t read the book, and I don’t think I will, as I don’t think
Banville can measure up to Chandler, one of my favorite writers.
But
I’ll probably watch the film, and my poor wife will have to listen to my
running commentary throughout.
Especially
when gun control advocate Neeson pulls out his trusty movie gun to save the
day.
Paul Davis is a Philadelphia writer who covers crime.
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