Round 2: Show of Evil VS Traveler: The 4th Branch
Mar 17, 2013 10:28:28 GMT -5
Post by Sportsguy on Mar 17, 2013 10:28:28 GMT -5
Show of Evil
Directed by Ben Affleck
Written by William Diehl adapting his best selling novel
10 years ago Aaron Stampler(Edward Norton), a seemingly innocent, angelic looking Appalachian boy, was Charged with the brutal murder of Archbishop Richard Rushman. Defense attorney Martin Vail(Kyle Chandler) defended Stampler and saved his life, pleading him guilty but insane. Stampler did commit the killing, but it was discovered that he was a split personality. It came out during the trial that Rushman was a pedophile, who raped Aaron and the other Altar Boys. We pick up the story 10 years later, with Stampler locked in a maximum security mental institution and Vail now on the other side of the law as the new District Attorney...
While investigating an unrelated crime Harvey St Claire(John Goodman), a former Texas Ranger now working as an investigator for Vail, and the office computer expert Ben Meyer(Chris Pine) uncover the murder of Linda Gellerman (Michelle Trachtenberg). Gellerman, Stampler's former girlfriend and one of the victims abused by Rushman, is found butchered to death in the same style that Rushman was. A few days later Alexander Lincoln(Jason Dohring), the last of Rushman's living victims, is killed. Vail's associate Dermott Flaherty (Ethan Hawke) goes to look into it, and with the help of Sgt Andrew Nicholson (Glenn Morshower) discovers that Lincoln was killed in the same way as Rushman and Gellerman.
Vail flies to the mental institution to have a meeting with Stampler and his new psychologist Dr Samuel Woodward(Anthony Stewart Head). While there, he learns that Stampler is now deemed 'cured' and is scheduled to be released to a halfway house. Stampler subtly taunts Vail, both knowing that Stampler is faking and there is nothing Vail can do about it. Vail returns home and confers with the rest of his team: his assistant Naomi Chance (Pam Grier), Major Able stenner(Tommy Lee Jones) the cop who arrested Stampler 10 years ago and now works for Vail, Jane Venable (Connie Britton) Vail's former adversary now turned girlfriend, St Claire,Flaherty and Meyer. The group works together to try and figure out how Stampler is leading these killings from the mental institution and what he's going to do once he's released.
Vail and St Claire visit Stampler's former psychologist Molly Arington (Piper Perabo) and with her help follow a trail that leads to Rebecca (Glen Close), Stampler's equally psychotic Teacher/Mentor/Lover who's the one who killed Gellerman and Lincoln. Stampler is released and then the first night he's out, he escapes from his halfway house and attacks Stenner and Venable, leaving them near death while at the same time Rebecca kills and beheads Judge Harry Shoat (Donald Sutherland) who was the trial judge during Stenner's trial 10 years ago. Rebecca is then shot to death while trying to kill Vail. Stampler drugs, rapes and then kills Arington.
At the film's conclusion Vail, Flaherty and St Claire track Stampler to his hometown, where he falls down a mineshaft. Stenner and Venable recover from their injuries, and Venable and Vail get engaged.
Traveler: The 4th Branch
In the television show Traveler, first aired in the summer of 2007, we meet our main characters, Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog. The two Harvard graduates students become suspects when the Drexler Museum in New York is bombed while they are pulling a juvenile prank. It appears that their friend and roommate, Will Traveler, has framed them for the bombing. Afterwards, Traveler disappears and there is no evidence that he ever existed. Jay and Tyler flee from the authorities, who believe them to be domestic terrorists. While on the run and trying to clear their own names, they attempt to delve into Will Traveler's past in hopes of discovering Will's motives for turning on his friends.
Meanwhile, Traveler goes on a similar search for answers. It is revealed that he is in fact a secret agent working for a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the Fourth Branch, and slowly a complex conspiracy is unraveled.
Jay and Tyler reunite with Will, and together the three attempt to bring those responsible to justice. They manage to kidnap Jack Freed, director of the Fourth Branch, but before they can use him to clear Jay and Tyler's names, the limousine with Jack Freed in it explodes.
And that's where this movie picks up...
The question is: "What is the Fourth Branch?"
This is the driving mystery of "Traveler: The Fourth Branch", as Will, Jay, and Tyler attempt to expose the clandestine organization which Jack Freed mentioned moments before his limo exploded in the series finale. The Fourth Branch is a secret society comprised of the oldest families in America. Many people forget that when this country was founded, Democracy was not a proven, accepted form of government. There had not been a successful western Democracy since Athens. And, in many ways, America was looked at as a great experiment. Our founding fathers wanted independence from England, and they needed to unify a fledgling country populated by a multinational constituency to win the war. What better way to rally a disparate army against the oppressors than to promise the common man a voice in the new government? This was the great promise of early American Democracy. But what if the founding fathers were also scared of the common man's power? Would they have perhaps put safeguards into place? A branch that sits above the people's three official branches of government? That, my friends, is the Fourth Branch. A group comprised of the oldest families in America who implement checks and balances on the government to guide the true course of our country. Think about the iconic families of American politics. The Kennedys. The Tafts. The Bushes. Did you ever wonder how they managed to wield so much power and influence? Their membership in the Fourth Branch plays a big part. And while our Founding Fathers believed in using the Branch to foster a youthful nation, today the Branch has become a shadow government that uses economic, political, social, and legal influence to maintain strict control. Right now, their senators are making sure that their latest Supreme Court nominee gets appointed. Their members on the New York Stock Exchange are keeping the price of oil high so we support the effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. What is the Fourth Branch? It is the realization of one of our worst fears, that though we live in the world's greatest democracy, we are not the ones steering the ship.
In "Traveler: The Fourth Branch" Burchell (original cast member Matt Bomer), Fog (Bradley Cooper), and Traveler (Jeremy Renner) have gone underground, waiting to make their next move as they seek to undercover the truth about The Fourth Branch and clear their names. A rouge CIA Agent, known only as "The Porter" (Denzel Washington) is tracking the three, not to harm them, but to assist them if needed.
FBI Agent Jan Marlow (original cast member Viola Davis) has been demoted and banned from working on the Drexler case after FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers (Jeffery Donovan) becomes suspicious that she has realized that he is working for The Fourth Branch. Marlow is secretly working on the case, trying to track down the Harvard trio, not to bring them in, but to help them expose Chambers, the man who was responsible for killing her partner, Agent Boras, and attempting to have her murdered in the series finale. Chambers has jailed Burchell's girlfriend Kim Doherty (Maggie Lawson) in a Central America prison, hoping to use her disappearance to draw out Burchell. Chambers also assigns two new FBI agents CJ Larson (Anne Hathaway) and Trent Walker (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) as the new leads on the Drexler bombing case, hoping the two agents find the Harvard trio and silence them from unearthing the Fourth Branch conspiracy and their ultimate plan, to instill a fear in the American people, to change the constitution so that the Fourth Branch and keep it's heir to their leadership, President Shears (Aaron Eckhart) in office for as long as they want, giving the Fourth Branch the power over the people, making the democracy that the America people think they have into a very real dictatorship.
Directed by Oliver Stone and written by series creator David DiGilio, Traveler: The Fourth Branch will see three ordinary Americans do their Patriotic duty to give America back to the people.
Cast and Crew:
Jay Burchell: Matt Bomer
Tyler Fog: Bradley Cooper
Will Traveler: Jeremy Renner
The Porter: Denzel Washington
FBI Agent C.J. Larson: Anne Hathaway
FBI Agent Trent Walker: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers: Jefferey Donovan
FBI Agent Jan Marlowe: Viola Davis
President Shears: Aaron Eckhart
Kim Doherty: Maggie Lawson
Jon Voight: Carlton Fog
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: David DiGilio
Composed by Bear McCreary
Directed by Ben Affleck
Written by William Diehl adapting his best selling novel
10 years ago Aaron Stampler(Edward Norton), a seemingly innocent, angelic looking Appalachian boy, was Charged with the brutal murder of Archbishop Richard Rushman. Defense attorney Martin Vail(Kyle Chandler) defended Stampler and saved his life, pleading him guilty but insane. Stampler did commit the killing, but it was discovered that he was a split personality. It came out during the trial that Rushman was a pedophile, who raped Aaron and the other Altar Boys. We pick up the story 10 years later, with Stampler locked in a maximum security mental institution and Vail now on the other side of the law as the new District Attorney...
While investigating an unrelated crime Harvey St Claire(John Goodman), a former Texas Ranger now working as an investigator for Vail, and the office computer expert Ben Meyer(Chris Pine) uncover the murder of Linda Gellerman (Michelle Trachtenberg). Gellerman, Stampler's former girlfriend and one of the victims abused by Rushman, is found butchered to death in the same style that Rushman was. A few days later Alexander Lincoln(Jason Dohring), the last of Rushman's living victims, is killed. Vail's associate Dermott Flaherty (Ethan Hawke) goes to look into it, and with the help of Sgt Andrew Nicholson (Glenn Morshower) discovers that Lincoln was killed in the same way as Rushman and Gellerman.
Vail flies to the mental institution to have a meeting with Stampler and his new psychologist Dr Samuel Woodward(Anthony Stewart Head). While there, he learns that Stampler is now deemed 'cured' and is scheduled to be released to a halfway house. Stampler subtly taunts Vail, both knowing that Stampler is faking and there is nothing Vail can do about it. Vail returns home and confers with the rest of his team: his assistant Naomi Chance (Pam Grier), Major Able stenner(Tommy Lee Jones) the cop who arrested Stampler 10 years ago and now works for Vail, Jane Venable (Connie Britton) Vail's former adversary now turned girlfriend, St Claire,Flaherty and Meyer. The group works together to try and figure out how Stampler is leading these killings from the mental institution and what he's going to do once he's released.
Vail and St Claire visit Stampler's former psychologist Molly Arington (Piper Perabo) and with her help follow a trail that leads to Rebecca (Glen Close), Stampler's equally psychotic Teacher/Mentor/Lover who's the one who killed Gellerman and Lincoln. Stampler is released and then the first night he's out, he escapes from his halfway house and attacks Stenner and Venable, leaving them near death while at the same time Rebecca kills and beheads Judge Harry Shoat (Donald Sutherland) who was the trial judge during Stenner's trial 10 years ago. Rebecca is then shot to death while trying to kill Vail. Stampler drugs, rapes and then kills Arington.
At the film's conclusion Vail, Flaherty and St Claire track Stampler to his hometown, where he falls down a mineshaft. Stenner and Venable recover from their injuries, and Venable and Vail get engaged.
Traveler: The 4th Branch
In the television show Traveler, first aired in the summer of 2007, we meet our main characters, Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog. The two Harvard graduates students become suspects when the Drexler Museum in New York is bombed while they are pulling a juvenile prank. It appears that their friend and roommate, Will Traveler, has framed them for the bombing. Afterwards, Traveler disappears and there is no evidence that he ever existed. Jay and Tyler flee from the authorities, who believe them to be domestic terrorists. While on the run and trying to clear their own names, they attempt to delve into Will Traveler's past in hopes of discovering Will's motives for turning on his friends.
Meanwhile, Traveler goes on a similar search for answers. It is revealed that he is in fact a secret agent working for a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the Fourth Branch, and slowly a complex conspiracy is unraveled.
Jay and Tyler reunite with Will, and together the three attempt to bring those responsible to justice. They manage to kidnap Jack Freed, director of the Fourth Branch, but before they can use him to clear Jay and Tyler's names, the limousine with Jack Freed in it explodes.
And that's where this movie picks up...
The question is: "What is the Fourth Branch?"
This is the driving mystery of "Traveler: The Fourth Branch", as Will, Jay, and Tyler attempt to expose the clandestine organization which Jack Freed mentioned moments before his limo exploded in the series finale. The Fourth Branch is a secret society comprised of the oldest families in America. Many people forget that when this country was founded, Democracy was not a proven, accepted form of government. There had not been a successful western Democracy since Athens. And, in many ways, America was looked at as a great experiment. Our founding fathers wanted independence from England, and they needed to unify a fledgling country populated by a multinational constituency to win the war. What better way to rally a disparate army against the oppressors than to promise the common man a voice in the new government? This was the great promise of early American Democracy. But what if the founding fathers were also scared of the common man's power? Would they have perhaps put safeguards into place? A branch that sits above the people's three official branches of government? That, my friends, is the Fourth Branch. A group comprised of the oldest families in America who implement checks and balances on the government to guide the true course of our country. Think about the iconic families of American politics. The Kennedys. The Tafts. The Bushes. Did you ever wonder how they managed to wield so much power and influence? Their membership in the Fourth Branch plays a big part. And while our Founding Fathers believed in using the Branch to foster a youthful nation, today the Branch has become a shadow government that uses economic, political, social, and legal influence to maintain strict control. Right now, their senators are making sure that their latest Supreme Court nominee gets appointed. Their members on the New York Stock Exchange are keeping the price of oil high so we support the effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. What is the Fourth Branch? It is the realization of one of our worst fears, that though we live in the world's greatest democracy, we are not the ones steering the ship.
In "Traveler: The Fourth Branch" Burchell (original cast member Matt Bomer), Fog (Bradley Cooper), and Traveler (Jeremy Renner) have gone underground, waiting to make their next move as they seek to undercover the truth about The Fourth Branch and clear their names. A rouge CIA Agent, known only as "The Porter" (Denzel Washington) is tracking the three, not to harm them, but to assist them if needed.
FBI Agent Jan Marlow (original cast member Viola Davis) has been demoted and banned from working on the Drexler case after FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers (Jeffery Donovan) becomes suspicious that she has realized that he is working for The Fourth Branch. Marlow is secretly working on the case, trying to track down the Harvard trio, not to bring them in, but to help them expose Chambers, the man who was responsible for killing her partner, Agent Boras, and attempting to have her murdered in the series finale. Chambers has jailed Burchell's girlfriend Kim Doherty (Maggie Lawson) in a Central America prison, hoping to use her disappearance to draw out Burchell. Chambers also assigns two new FBI agents CJ Larson (Anne Hathaway) and Trent Walker (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) as the new leads on the Drexler bombing case, hoping the two agents find the Harvard trio and silence them from unearthing the Fourth Branch conspiracy and their ultimate plan, to instill a fear in the American people, to change the constitution so that the Fourth Branch and keep it's heir to their leadership, President Shears (Aaron Eckhart) in office for as long as they want, giving the Fourth Branch the power over the people, making the democracy that the America people think they have into a very real dictatorship.
Directed by Oliver Stone and written by series creator David DiGilio, Traveler: The Fourth Branch will see three ordinary Americans do their Patriotic duty to give America back to the people.
Cast and Crew:
Jay Burchell: Matt Bomer
Tyler Fog: Bradley Cooper
Will Traveler: Jeremy Renner
The Porter: Denzel Washington
FBI Agent C.J. Larson: Anne Hathaway
FBI Agent Trent Walker: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers: Jefferey Donovan
FBI Agent Jan Marlowe: Viola Davis
President Shears: Aaron Eckhart
Kim Doherty: Maggie Lawson
Jon Voight: Carlton Fog
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: David DiGilio
Composed by Bear McCreary
