Setups Payoffs & Reversals

<p><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Setups Payoffs & Reversals</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is an adoring obsessive and personal look at the films of Shane Black. From </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Lethal Weapon</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> to </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Play Dirty</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> each chapter celebrates Black's signature style of cheap tricks and cheesy one-liners (</span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Iron Man 3</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>) male friendship (</span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>) Christmas chaos (most of em) big personality henchmen (</span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Nice Guys</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>) and the blood-soaked trail to redemption (all of em). Jake Jabbour examines each movie from the perspective of where he was when he saw it and what the movie would come to represent about culture action movies and the filmmaker Shane Black. It's a genre-savvy deep dive that explores the reinvention deconstruction and eventual revolution of ten films over thirty years. Whether you're a fan of Shane Black an action movie connoisseur or a broken hero too old for this s**t this book will dazzle like a Christmas tree with an exploding helicopter in the background. With examinations of </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Last Action Hero's </em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>logical paradox to the imposter syndrome of </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Long Kiss Goodnight</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> to the framing of </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Last Boy Scout</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> as a dis record Jabbour responds to the films as setups with his own payoffs and reversals.</span></p>