“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?”

Movie: High Fidelity (2000)
Character: Rob
Actor: John Cusack

Screenplay by: D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack
and Scott Rosenberg
Based on a book by: Nick Hornby
Director: Stephen Frears

1. Sin City
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Sixth Sense
4. Twelve Monkeys
5. Die Hard
6. Armageddon
7. The Fifth Element
8. The whole 9 yards
9. Death becomes Her.
10. Look Who’s Talking.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany on 19 March 1955. He grew up in New Jersey and after high school he moved to New York to become an actor.

He had a few small uncredited roles, until he gained popularity as David in the TV show Moonlighting (1985). He became a star with the hit action movie Die Hard (1988). He is mainly an action hero, but also starred in comedies, thrillers and dramas. He lent his voice talent to the baby Mikey in the Look Who’s Talking movies and the animation film Over The Hedge (2006).

Willis won Emmies as the “best guest star” in Friends (TV) in 2001 and “best actor” in Moonlighting (TV) in 1987. He also won the Golden Globe for his performance in Moonlighting (TV).

He won the worst actor Razzie award for Armageddon (1998) and Hudson Hawk (1991).

He reived his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.

“My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams I’m an idiot… who knows he’s about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can’t. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works… ”

Movie: Vanilla Sky
Character: David
Actor: Tom Cruise
Written and directed by: Cameron Crowe.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Face/Off
3. Grease
4. Saturday Night Fever
5. Hairspray
6. Look Who’s Talking.
7. Broken Arrow
8. Primary Colors
9. Ladder 49
10. Get Shorty

John Joseph Travolta was born on 18 February 1954 in Englewood, New Jersey. He was the youngest of six children.

He became popular in the TV show Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) and received fame for his starring role in Saturday Night Fever (1977). He’s career has been yo-yoing the past few decades.

Travolta received Oscar nominations for his roles in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp fiction (1994). He won a Golden Globe for Get Shorty (1995) and received several other Golden Globe nominations. He has received an MTV movies award for “best duo” for Face/Off (1997), which he Shared with Nicolas Cage, as well as a best dance sequence award for Pulp Fiction (1994) and several other MTV nominations. He won a “worst actor” Razzie for Battlefield Earth (2000) and received nominations for several movies. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He has published two books “John Travolta Staying Fit!” and “Propeller One-Way Night Coach, A Fable for All Ages”. He is a licensed pilot, flies a Learjet and owns a Boeing 707. Like his good friend Tom Cruise, he is a follower of the controversial Scientology sect.

John Travolta has been married to Kelly Preston, with whom he shares 2 children, from 12 September 1991 to present. His son Jett Travolta (born 13 April 1992) died on 2 January 2009, following a seizure. In Jett’s honour Travolta went on safari in South Africa, his favourite vacation spot.

He has certainly had a hit-and-miss career. He is a very entertaining actor and has the ability to be both the here and the villain. You probably own some of his movies on DVD.

District 9 (read my District 9 review) is set in Johannesburg, South Africa which since it release has earned a cult following. This local movie (although it was produced by New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson) did amazingly well internationally and was a big trend on Twitter.

D9’s main character, Wikus vd Merwe, has become a bit of a local hero. There is a hilarious new website dedicated to Wikus.

Fans can upload picture featuring Wikus. They are usually movies posters spoofs and will have either “Wikus”, “prawn”, “swietie” or “fok” substituting one of the original words in the title.  Go check out the fokken site (www.wikus.co.za).  It’s some funny stuff.

If you haven’t watched the movie yet, go see it on the big screen to enjoy the full effect of the visual spectacle. It would be lekker fokken stupid to just watch some bad copy of the movie on your computer.

You will probably want to buy the  DVD too, because it would be lekker to watch it again.

Pictures from The Swietie Man