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The last spin

Evan Hunter is the author of The Last Spin. His the most famous achievement is The Birds movie script. Protagonists in this dramatic short story are two men, Danny and Tigo. The story is full of  deep breaths, sweat and excitement.

In the story Danny and Tigo belong to different clubs. Their clubs had had disagreements and the clubs had settled that they solve problems with one way or with Russian roulette. Neither of them would want to be in that situation. Venue of the story is the basement room, where Danny and Tigo squeeze the trigger by turns until one of them is dead. If story has this kind of plot, it has to be thrilling and that’s what it was. The plot keeps the reader all the time awake. The reader must guess at all the time what will happen next and never you really know what it is.

Even though the story is based on a talk beetween two people, it is still so interesting that it makes you to read it on and in my case only very few author has done it. In the story Tigo and Danny see each other so different kind of persons, but when the story progresses they realize how similar they really are. That is one of the most fascinating things in the plot.

The text of the story has written with so fabulous way that it was actually pleasure to read it. After all text was very difficult to read, because there was so much terminology and protagonists discussed with very powerfull slang. When I read text, I had to focus entirely to reading.

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The lone ranger

The lone ranger is an American western movie which appeared in movie theaters in 2013. The movie is directed by Gore Verbinski who has already directed Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Leading actors of a film are Johnny Depp (Tonto), Armie Hammer (John Reid/Lone ranger) and William Fichtner (Butch Cavendish). I watched this Wild West movie only because Johnny Depp was one of the actors and just like I guessed Depp made a fantastic performance.

The movie tells about a weird and humorous indian called Tonto and ordinary townie John Reid. These two team up after Tonto realizes that John is the ”chosen one” or The lone ranger. These two begin the batlle against Butch Cavendish who tries to come rich with silver and he is ready to eliminate all barriers in front of him. The film has been done comically and thats why it’s a more entertaining. Anyway, the film is overshadowed by a clishe plot, but it does not bother me because all actors are so great.

Although actors were great, it does not change the fact that movie would have had a lot of room for improvement. The biggest problem was the length of film. Film was absolutely too long and that is one reason why it sometimes repeated itself. Personally I liked movie set desing and effects because they gave me a real feeling about Wild West. Second thing that I liked was the scene where Tonto and John fighted with Cavendish and his forces. In that scene, the viewer will certainly get in the movie. The language of film was fairly easy to follow, because actors spoke very good english. There was still many Wild West phrases which I had never heard before. On a scale of four to ten, I would give eight fot this movie.

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