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About humor and good friends

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Actually, I always wanted to write something about Liam Neeson here regularly. But over the last few months, I've found it damn hard to concentrate on the person I really appreciate as a human being.  Depression, lack of self-confidence, and self-esteem keep preventing me from continuing. I'm not feeling well...  Despite everything, I decided to write a new post again today.  I found a nice interview in a German movie magazine that Liam gave on the occasion of the premiere of premiere of his new movie "The Naked Gun" in Berlin last week.  In the interview, Liam was asked how he got the role of Frank Drebin Jr and what kind of humor makes him laugh.  In the first question, Liam was asked," Were you a fan of the original "Naked Gun" movies,  in which Leslie Nielson played the leading role?" And Liam answered," Yes, I was and I still am. I remember very well when the films came out in cinemas. I was still living in London ...

A scandal and a wonderful friendship

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In 1997, Liam gave an interview to journalist Charlie Rose at the premiere of his film " Michael Collins " .  The two talked for an hour about Liam's Karriere , in detail about the person Michael Collins, who is one of Liam's role models, and about Neil Jordan's film about Michael Collins, in which Liam plays the leading role and about the film that took Liam's career in a different direction, "Schindler's List." The two also talked about Liam's time on Broadway.  I'll recount the interview step by step, not in chronological order, but as I present and narrate it for fans on my Liam Neeson fan page on Instagram. Here, everything is more detailed, though not perfect, and with additional information. While Liam was giving the interview to Charlie Rose in 1997, they both talked obout the collaboration between Liam and Woody Allen.  Rose said to Liam,  while listing the movies Liam had up to that point,  "You like...

When Liam became a serial killer (please don't take it too seriously)

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 After a break of almost three months,  which I only interrupt once or twice,  I continued yesterday my little series about Liam on Instagram.  Over the past few weeks, I've been working intensively on an interview Liam gave in 1997 at the premiere of "Michael Collins" . The interview lasts about an hour and I've listened to it almost daily.  I still listen to this interview regularly because I still discover beautiful and interesting things that Liam talks about in it. The beginning, where he talks about Michael Collins, is particularly interesting, and you can see how much Liam cares about his role model.  It was and it is primarily to improve my listening comprehension of the English language and to convey the little stories Liam tells in the interview as accurately as possible. It's a very nice and interesting interview. I will not reproduce the interview in It's normal order,  but only in the passages that I wrote down when...

Cad atá ag tarlú sa saol seo?

Scríobhaim cúpla focal inniu nach bhfuil ann ach duitse:  Is scanrúil an chaoi ar fhorbair Meiriceá le cúig seachtaine anuas.   Ní théann lá ar aghaidh gan léamh faoin gcaoi a bhfuil rialtas atá tofa go daonlathach ag baint níos mó agus níos mó cearta óna mhuintir féin.   Tá daoine ag cailleadh a bpoist, tá leanaí ag cailleadh a bhfóirdheontas béilí scoile, níl fóirdheontais béilí ar rothaí á bhfáil ag pinsinéirí, tá a gcuid airgid á ghearradh ag veterans, tá cosc ar leabhair, tá srian ar shaoirse cainte, tá srian á chur ar dhaoine homaighnéasacha agus trasinscne, tá iriseoirí a bhfuil craiceann dorcha orthu ag cailleadh a bpoist ag na mórghníomhaireachtaí nuachta, tá ráig den bhruitíneach ann agus tá an tAire Sláinte ag cur as dóibh.  Agus ansin faigheann tú amach nach bhfuil an fear seo tar éis staidéar a dhéanamh ar leigheas fiú agus go bhfuil sé frith-vacsaínithe. Tá sé scanrúil cad atá ag tarlú thall ansin i láthair na huaire.   Tá sé cosúil ...

About "Non-Stop"

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For me, Non-Stop is one of those films that really gets my adrenaline pumping. Suspense from the first moment to the last scene. When I saw the film for the first time, my head was working the whole time. One question followed the next. How did the writer know that, how could he kill that person, where did he get this information from... Questions Non-Stop...  A few days ago I discovered an interview that Liam and Jaume Collet-Serra gave to a German film platform about the release of the film in German cinemas.  I'm currently brushing up on my English. The interview came at just the right time. It was conducted in English. So I translated it into German first and then translated the translation back into English. It sounds complicated, but that's exactly what really helps me brush up on my language. The translation into German helps me to understand the context of the interview properly.  Here is the content of the interview:  In March 2014, L...

About "Taken"

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  "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you, I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills . Skills I have acquired over a long career. Skills that make me a nighrmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find and I will kill you!" When Liam said these lines in the first "Taken" movie in 2008, neihter he nor director Pierre Morel or producer Luc Besson had a clue what cult status these sentence would be achieved.  Liam would have liked to have deleted this dialog completely from the movie.  In an interview Liam gave last July, he said that he wasn't a fan of the line at first and would have preferred to remove it from the script, "I was not originally a fan of my now legendary speech. I thought the saying was silly and I'm very...

Thanksgiving Shona

A Liam, a stór, guím Lá Altaithe iontach duit féin agus ar do theaghlach.   Tá súil agam go gcaithfidh tú lá an-deas le do bheirt mhac Daniel agus Micheál agus a chailín Daniel, Natalie, agus go dtabharfaidh go leor cairde agus lucht aitheantais cuairt ort.    Is maith liom an bealach a dhéantar Thanksgiving a cheiliúradh i Meiriceá. Ó bhí mé óg, tá mé ag iarraidh an fhéile seo a cheiliúradh.  Toisc go ndeir sé an oiread sin faoi chomhtháthú teaghlaigh agus faoin gcaidreamh teaghlaigh le cairde, faoin gcaidreamh speisialta atá agat lena chéile. Ar an drochuair, ní raibh an t-ádh orm riamh an fhéile a cheiliúradh agus an taithí speisialta seo a mhothú. Tá áthas orm ar do shon gur féidir leat a chaitheamh inniu le do muintir.  Gach rath agus grá daoibh go léir.   A Liam, a chara, guím lá iontach síochánta oraibh agus tá súil agam go mbeidh cupán tae le chéile ag an mbeirt againn go luath agus go mbeidh comhrá beag againn. Is é sin mo mhian is mó....