In our fifth (and extra-explicit) installment of The Seven Deadly Sins, we discuss road rage (and “Carma”), catharsis, destructotherapy, “going postal,” the true story of the Count of Monte Cristo, the Hulk, Christian Bale and other purveyors of WRATH!
Music: “Uuugh!” by Xavier Cugat
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Road rage stories from you – our listeners:
Chaz L I used to get horrilbe road rage years ago. I’d do the typical stuff like pull up beside a person, give em the bird while screaming obsensities and blasting my horn. I followed one guy home, smashed my car into his mailbox and sped off, but one day my speedometer broke. I couldn’t see how so slow(or fast) I was driving, and all my anger vanished. By the time I got it fixed my road rage had vanished. Yay!
Will A Not really a story, but a number of years ago, during the “freedom fries” era, I forced a dude off the road for having a “France sucks” sticker on his bumper. He wasn’t hurt, or anything, but it still probably wasn’t the coolest thing to do. He shook his fist at me in a “get off my lawn” sort of way, though, which made it awesome.
Adam J Best story i have for road rage is about my cousin. If he was cut up badly or really put in danger by the other driver he would follow them home and shout at them or if they got away he would drive down the same road at the same time for weeks looking for them.
Movies
American Psycho
Kevin: 10/10
Joe: 8/10
Raging Bull
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 10/10
Joe: 9/10
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
Toren: 9/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 9/10
Office Space
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 9/10
V for Vendetta
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 10/10
Joe: 9/10
The Hulk
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 5/10
Joe: 4/10
The Incredible Hulk
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 5/10
Goodfellas
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 10/10
Untouchables
Toren: 5/10
Kevin: 9/10
Joe: 8/10
Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 7/10
Punisher (1989)
Toren: 3/10
Kevin: 1/10
Punisher (2004)
Toren: 5/10
Kevin: 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH8ENik0Lak
The First thing I thought Of When I Heard the Christian Bale Sample.
You missed another wrathful role for DeNiro: Cape Fear!
On a related note, I learned that Amazon spent quite a bit of money to run a large test group to help reduce angry phone calls.
What did they learn?
If you put a picture of a baby or cute dog beside the error message, it will calm people down. Apparently, angry phone calls were cut in half after this measure was put in place.
I guess Bruce Banner should work at the SPCA.
The act of doing a Kevin.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kevin&defid=3008190
Have fun!
Although I haven’t seen it, would the film Falling Down fit this episode’s theme?
Oh, and Mr Furious from Mystery Men (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132347/). Kinda wrathful, but really just lame, mostly. It did star Pee Wee Herman, so that might make it appeal to you (I think he was “The Spleen” who could fart on command).
The strange character from the Old English root of wrath that you saw, I suspect, is ð. Dunno what the name of the character is, but it’s the ‘th’ sound in words like ‘this’ and ‘that’. I suspect there’s a different character for the ‘th’ sound in ‘thin’. I remember that from when my sister studied Old English at uni.
Also, I found it interesting how jarring it was to me to hear the word pronounced rath (like saying ‘rat’ with a lisp) instead of roth (as in Tim Roth) to me. Both are fine, but I’d say the latter and hearing the former for the entire episode just made me twitch a bit – quite possibly the effect you were after?