01/07/15 Day Of The Jackal (1973)

The French version of UKIP hire an English chap to shoot a melon.

That's pretty much the plot taken care of. The two things that stuck with me were how brilliantly stiff and hammy some of the acting is and the real-life assassination attempt on DeGaulle that's dramatised at the beginning of the film. A team of nationalists, armed with machine guns, shot at the presidential car as drove slowly past. The car was hit 127 times yet no one was injured.

Applying Occam's Razor, we can only conclude that French bullets have a build quality and reliability comparable to their cars.

'The new Citroen Penetrator. A bullet designed for the sportsman in the field. Made from a compound of lead, cheese and snail, it is dipped in a baguette before being coated in wine and left to set atop a decorative beret. The roughly cuboid shape, although not traditional or blessed with a significant ballistic impact, ensures maximum entertainment value for any spectators present'.

Carla Bruni, though. Bit of a result for that little gnome fella who married her.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069947/

8/10

Normal size book, very tiny man.

I have a craving for KFC. Not sure why.

Tragically Phillip died during the production of this film.

However his brother, Wilson, went on to great acclaim in Castaway.

"Hang on, this plane is French? Fuck that, I'll walk."

The French army's hiking regiment, world leaders in the art of retreating under fire.

No landscape on earth can prevent these elite troops from running like fuck in the

opposite direction.

Presenting his shaft for inspection.