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Detectives say Cho Seung-Hui repeatedly watched the South Korean movie Oldboy in the days leading up to the massacre in which 32 people were killed

A South Korean version of "Travis Bickle" angle to this mass killing.

1 posted on 04/19/2007 7:38:27 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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Gee, was he manipulated into having sex with his long lost daughter too?

Was he locked up in a hotel room for 15 years and fed nothing but dumplings?

This guy was so nuts that he could have looked at Bugs Bunny toons and got the same message.

2 posted on 04/19/2007 7:42:55 AM PDT by Brian Mosely (A government is a body of people -- usually notably ungoverned)
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I’m sure it won’t be too long before somebody notices that “Oldboy” sounds a lot like “Al-Dubai.” Just to maintain that tenuous Islamic connection, doncha know.


3 posted on 04/19/2007 7:42:58 AM PDT by r9etb
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The package, addressed to NBC News head Steve Capus, bears a postal stamp in the two-hour window between the first shooting and the second, in which Cho killed himself.

It was sent Fed-Ex, right? Doesn't this just mean it was picked up out of the box sometime between the 1st and 2nd shootings?

Couldn't he have put it IN the box anytime since the previous pickup time, which I presume could have been as long ago as Saturday?

I'm not saying he COULDN'T have mailed it during the 2 hours, but is there any real evidence he took the time to walk to a fed-ex box to post it?

4 posted on 04/19/2007 7:43:29 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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It’s time for some common sense movie control laws.


6 posted on 04/19/2007 7:44:48 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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what good is the media & movies, etc good for anymore...

it's all a bunch of self centered garbage full of sex and violence

7 posted on 04/19/2007 7:46:27 AM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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Oldboy was a fantastic movie.


8 posted on 04/19/2007 7:46:49 AM PDT by Holicheese (I love shrimp and grits.)
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Once again, we have to obsess over the pathetic life of a total loser, all because the students and faculty of VT were disarmed by the Virginia Legislature.


9 posted on 04/19/2007 7:48:44 AM PDT by montag813
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Maybe it was "If . . ."
There is a pretty good scene
of school shooting there!

10 posted on 04/19/2007 7:50:47 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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Cho’s ramblings are the same ramblings that you can find in the mind of any socialist/communist. Hatred for those who are successful, wealthy and the children of that wealth. Is Virgina Tech run by Conservatives? No, it’s run by socialists and they are singularly responsible for planting the seeds of discontent in this mans mind. That he went on a rampage and slaughtered so many, is the logical extension of their words.


12 posted on 04/19/2007 7:51:57 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
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What a fool.

14 posted on 04/19/2007 7:52:58 AM PDT by beeber (stuned)
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You mean they have violent movies in other countries???? I never would have guessed. I thought it was the “American” culture of violence that drove him to it. /s


17 posted on 04/19/2007 7:53:49 AM PDT by USMCWife6869 (Godspeed Sand Sharks.)
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Well, I guess we know what the most rented movie will be this weekend ...


22 posted on 04/19/2007 8:02:23 AM PDT by 11th_VA (What about Cho ?)
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AND - AND - In one of Cho’s video rants - he says he has done this for “his brothers and sisters and children of...” and then the news bleeps it out. His lips looks like he is saying “ISLAM!”

BUT WHY DID THE NEWS BLEEP IT OUT? ALSO, NOW THE NEWS ALSO MAKE FUZZY HIS MOUTH...SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT - WHY ARE THEY WITHHOLDING THIS INFO?????


23 posted on 04/19/2007 8:08:11 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Here we go....

Do these people ever think that he may have been attracted to such movies because he’s nuts in the first place? Of course not, you can’t fund a national censorship movement based on the fact that some people are simply nuts.


24 posted on 04/19/2007 8:08:48 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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Princeton Professor Singer: And I repeat, I would kill Disabled Infants

Singer views disabled infants as flawed and, therefore, undeserving of life.

Cho viewed college students as "flawed" and, therefore, undeserving of life.

There are only a few differences between the men.

Singer gets an Ivy League bully pulpit and would have doctors carry out his fatwah on disabled infants.

28 posted on 04/19/2007 8:11:58 AM PDT by syriacus (Congress should debrief Pelosi as they would any US diplomat who met with a foreign leader.)
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If he had been watching THIS movie alot in the days leading up to this event how could one NOT say this movie had an impact?

I don’t recall any mass murderers who watched 20 hours of Bugs Bunny and then went out hunting people.

We’ve seen about 1/100th of the tape this guy sent to NBC. Surely NBC wouldn’t only release segments selectively for agenda purposes would they? sarcasm off.


30 posted on 04/19/2007 8:12:50 AM PDT by hoyaloya
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But, when people complain about violence in movies we keep being told that it’s just a movie. When are film makers going to start taking seriously the impact they have on society? Making positive movies appears to be a thing of the past...well then it’s no surprise that society has coarsened along with the content of movies (not to lay all the blame at one place, but films are a contributor to societies ills).
35 posted on 04/19/2007 8:16:11 AM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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What about violent video games?


49 posted on 04/19/2007 8:35:37 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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And Hollywood thinks they are a force for good.


54 posted on 04/19/2007 8:48:15 AM PDT by bmwcyle ( Freep Fox they drop the ball on GOE)
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According to IMDB there's a remake of the 2003 Korean film "OldBoy" in production to be released in 2008.

The remake of a Korean film of the same name, a recently paroled middle-aged man, who spent 15 years in prison without any explanation as to why he was jailed, seeks revenge on those who conspired against him.

68 posted on 04/19/2007 9:14:04 AM PDT by Spiff (Rudy Giuliani Quote (NY Post, 1996) "Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.")
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