#i pulled the reverse jung on sophie

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#quinn is in taekwondo #tara is in showjumping #chaos is a air pistol shooter #i gave up on putting eliot on the pentathlon bc the horsemanship in that was horrendous and i refuse to allow him to be associated with it #i pulled the reverse jung on sophie #instead of dressage to event it's event to dressage #she's known as the star destroyer in equestrian circles bc you can't look away from her but be ready to compete for second place #the concept of 5 top athletes and their over enthusiastic friend plan a heist is so funny #if anyone has wants to write it please do i have no plans for this

The Olympics ended a while a go but I finally wrote this out!

Olympics!Leverage

Parker is a world famous artistic gymnast, an absolute monster on the balance beams and the definition dexterity on the floor. Became a meme because of her terrible track record in interviews, it’s not that she’s actively trying to be rude or awkward, she just doesn’t know how to hold back the adrenaline from performing the perfect floor routine.

Alec Hardison is a nerd through and through and has no shame in revealing in an interview that he only picked up the bow and arrow when he was 12 was because he thought (and still thinks) that Legolas is the coolest character ever. Nana enrolled him in a local archery class to help him with his ADHD, turns out internally roleplaying as Bard the Bowman was great therapy. He likes the recurve bow but his true love is the compound.

Sophie Devereaux is a dressage legend. Her first olympics was as a eventer but she decided her that true passion lies in dressage. She competed in 10 olympics total (7 of them in dressage, won gold in 5, silver in 2 and bronze in 1). Has ridden many horses in many games but her heart will always belong to Griff (short for Maximundo Grift Valegro LAM 15B9) a true white Lusitano Arab mix stallion, they won gold in 2 Olympics together (eventing and dressage). Sophie retired after the tragic death of her husband (and olympic gold medallist sailor) Nate Ford, decided to follow a career as an equestrian games commentator, trainer and social media sensation. Was invited by the BBC to be the main tv host of the Olympics coverage alongside the experts of their respective sports.

Eliot Spencer is a veteran that found himself in cooking and Taekwondo. He still feels like a newcomer, its hard not to when your peers became third-degree black belts at 15 and you discovered the sport at 23 and fresh off war. But goddamn Eliot tries his hardest. Now he is 31, it’s his second Olympics and he’s not going to settle for silver this time, his first and only goal is Gold (the second goal is having fun).

Breanna Casey is a skateboarding prodigy. She’s 16 and thrilled that skateboarding is finally being recognized as a legitimate sport and can finally rub on those mean boomer’s faces the she is an olympic athlete now (take that, you raisins!). She’s super nervous but she’s been on the international competition scene since she was 11, she got this… right? She’s a social media Menace with a capital M, 2 million followers on twitter and brand deals helped her so much with her sport expenses, Nana can only help so much with plane tickets and skateboard equipment. A shitpost master and posting in the middle of competitions is her Brand™ and the public loves it.

Harry Wilson feels like a deer in the headlights of a 12 wheeler truck and the only way out is to narrate what’s happening and he LOVES IT. He won a ticket to the golf preliminaries, got lost on the way back from the bathroom, met a lady he swears he saw on TV once and somehow he’s on national uk television commentating alongside an olympic legend and other experts now. He’s having the time of his life and if someone noticed the odd one out here they haven’t snitched yet. 

The majority of the crew doesn’t have a criminal background (I’m looking at you Parker) but when they notice that judges are being very unfair and showing favoritism they couldn’t sit still. They bump into each other while snooping around. 

Plot twist: turns out the judges are being paid off by a multibillion dollar company to tip the competition towards athletes sponsored by this corporation and that would bring them the most profit.

The payments are made in hard cash envelopes and hand delivered to avoid any paper trail. 

The grand heist is to intercept the 8 suit cases full of cash being delivered in the next 7 days, expose the judges and donate the bribe money to the wronged athletes.

Everyone is trying to be very professional and careful. Harry’s still having a great time.

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Discover the military thriller that put Park Chan-wook on the mapf

It is the wee hours of 28 October, at the scene of a multiple murder. Jeong Woo-jin (Shin Ha-kyun) and another man are dead, and Oh Kyung-pil (Song Kang-ho) is injured, while Lee Soo-hyuk (Lee Byung-hun), also injured, has managed to escape and is currently in custody, having confessed to the shootings.

This is no ordinary crime scene, however, but a guard house on the north side of the heavily militarised Joint Security Area between North and South Korea, both still technically at war. A sergeant from the South legendary for his gun skills and for once having single-handedly dismantled a mine on which he had stepped, Soo-hyuk claims that he had been abducted by the three Northern soldiers, and had shot his way out of their captivity in self-defence.

From the other side, Kyung-pil alleges that Soo-hyuk burst into their guard post firing, in an act of unprovoked aggression. So from the outset, it is clear that Park Chan-wook’s JSA – Joint Security Area is to be a DMZ-set Rashomon, as vying narratives conceal a truth that nobody wants either to tell or to hear.

Amid tensions on both sides, an outsider is brought in to investigate. Major Sophie E Jean (Lee Young-ae) was born in Geneva to a Korean father and represents the Swiss and Swedish Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission. Quick to discover that one bullet is missing from the scene, and that the gun from which most of the other bullets were fired belonged not to Soo-hyuk but to his fellow border guard Private Nam Sung-sik (Kim Tae-woo), Sophie finds herself in the middle of a highly combustible situation where the evidence points in different directions and everything – even enmity and the very notion of neutrality – is illusory.

A series of flashbacks, covering many months, gradually reveals the interconnections between the men in the guard house shootout, whose evolving friendship across borders represents the greatest threat to the convenient myths of a wartime dispensation. Meanwhile, Sophie will also learn that she herself shares – even embodies – the divided history of these two nations.

“What is it? Have I got something on my face?” asks Soo-hyuk’s girlfriend, Soo-jung, who has just casually mentioned to Sophie that she is also Sung-sik’s sister. As she utters her questions to Sophie, Soo-jung does very literally have something on her face – a giant gorilla mask that she has just pulled on for a stage performance. Indeed, the whole of JSA plays out like a masquerade. The stories that people tell about their encounters along the frontier are inevitably partisan, given the extreme polarisation that the border represents, and the strict penalties against fraternisation of any kind.

Yet ever so slowly, all this is exposed to be a charade, as four men from either side of the divide create, however temporarily, an illicit zone of communication and camaraderie, reciprocity and respect, whose very existence belies the premise upon which the separation of states is founded. Here, in a reversal of narrative convention, it is not the disruption of order but rather its restitution that results in real tragedy for a succession of characters, as Park Chan-wook’s film illustrates the absurdities of the ongoing North/South conflict.

The terms of war may be decided by higher powers, but it is the lower ranks who are expected to toe the line on pain of death. And while the border that runs through the middle of the film is very real, it also takes on a figurative aspect, marking additional boundaries of nationality (Sophie is half-Korean, half-Swiss), sexuality (there are hints that Sung-sik is gay) and gender (Sophie is told she is “the first female staff at JSA since 1953”).

JSA offers a picture of arbitrary barriers, and the punishments for those who cross them, but it also suggests that this picture conceals as much as it reveals, containing a secret history of resistance and transgression for those with eyes to see and decode a truth hidden in plain sight. As such, its final image – a photograph whose many details are brought into sharp focus – aligns it with the end of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and its own encrypted photograph from the past. For a tourist’s photo, whose significance will inevitably be lost on its taker is recontextualised to capture a lost connection in a divided space and time.

Released in 2000, in the borderland between two millennia, JSA was not Park’s first feature – but it was the film that would put his name on the map, setting a new box-office record in South Korea and paving the way for his rise to become one of the key figures in the Korean Wave, leading to his so-called ‘Vengeance trilogy’, including 2003’s Oldboy. Twenty years on, it’s hard to say that much has changed between the two Koreas, still tragically unified in a symmetrical hostility that tears everyone apart from themselves and each other.

JSA – Joint Security Area is available on Blu-ray in High Definition presentation from Arrow Home Video on 18 January.

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source https://lwlies.com/articles/jsa-joint-security-area-park-chan-wook/

[leverageclips]

The Olympics ended a while a go but I finally wrote this out!

Olympics!Leverage

Parker is a world famous artistic gymnast, an absolute monster on the balance beams and the definition dexterity on the floor. Became a meme because of her terrible track record in interviews, it's not that she's actively trying to be rude or awkward, she just doesn't know how to hold back the adrenaline from performing the perfect floor routine.

Alec Hardison is a nerd through and through and has no shame in revealing in an interview that he only picked up the bow and arrow when he was 12 was because he thought (and still thinks) that Legolas is the coolest character ever. Nana enrolled him in a local archery class to help him with his ADHD, turns out internally roleplaying as Bard the Bowman was great therapy. He likes the recurve bow but his true love is the compound.

Sophie Devereaux is a dressage legend. Her first olympics was as a eventer but she decided her that true passion lies in dressage. She competed in 10 olympics total (7 of them in dressage, won gold in 5, silver in 2 and bronze in 1). Has ridden many horses in many games but her heart will always belong to Griff (short for Maximundo Grift Valegro LAM 15B9) a true white Lusitano Arab mix stallion, they won gold in 2 Olympics together (eventing and dressage). Sophie retired after the tragic death of her husband (and olympic gold medallist sailor) Nate Ford, decided to follow a career as an equestrian games commentator, trainer and social media sensation. Was invited by the BBC to be the main tv host of the Olympics coverage alongside the experts of their respective sports.

Eliot Spencer is a veteran that found himself in cooking and Taekwondo. He still feels like a newcomer, its hard not to when your peers became third-degree black belts at 15 and you discovered the sport at 23 and fresh off war. But goddamn Eliot tries his hardest. Now he is 31, it’s his second Olympics and he’s not going to settle for silver this time, his first and only goal is Gold (the second goal is having fun).

Breanna Casey is a skateboarding prodigy. She’s 16 and thrilled that skateboarding is finally being recognized as a legitimate sport and can finally rub on those mean boomer’s faces the she is an olympic athlete now (take that, you raisins!). She’s super nervous but she’s been on the international competition scene since she was 11, she got this... right? She’s a social media Menace with a capital M, 2 million followers on twitter and brand deals helped her so much with her sport expenses, Nana can only help so much with plane tickets and skateboard equipment. A shitpost master and posting in the middle of competitions is her Brand™ and the public loves it.

Harry Wilson feels like a deer in the headlights of a 12 wheeler truck and the only way out is to narrate what’s happening and he LOVES IT. He won a ticket to the golf preliminaries, got lost on the way back from the bathroom, met a lady he swears he saw on TV once and somehow he’s on national uk television commentating alongside an olympic legend and other experts now. He’s having the time of his life and if someone noticed the odd one out here they haven’t snitched yet. 

The majority of the crew doesn’t have a criminal background (I’m looking at you Parker) but when they notice that judges are being very unfair and showing favoritism they couldn’t sit still. They bump into each other while snooping around. 

Plot twist: turns out the judges are being paid off by a multibillion dollar company to tip the competition towards athletes sponsored by this corporation and that would bring them the most profit.

The payments are made in hard cash envelopes and hand delivered to avoid any paper trail. 

The grand heist is to intercept the 8 suit cases full of cash being delivered in the next 7 days, expose the judges and donate the bribe money to the wronged athletes.

Everyone is trying to be very professional and careful. Harry’s still having a great time.