— Estuvo casado 62 años con Rosie Cotton.
— Tuvo 13 hijos.
— Fue elegido alcalde de La Comarca y ejerció durante 49 años en el puesto.
— Fue el único mortal en herir a Ella-Laraña
— Acabó con varios Orcos él solo.
— Estuvo 6 meses sin fumar pipa y sin comer patatas.
— Viajó 2.898 kilometros descalzo.
— Cargó con un adulto a sus espaldas hacia un volcán.
— Una de las pocas personas en la Tierra Media que son inmunes al anillo.
SAM ES EL MVP Y EL VERDADERO HÉROE DE EL SEÑOR DE LOS ANILLOS.
Hollywood spent 21 years pretending this didn't happen first.
Michael Jai White headlined Spawn in 1997. A Black actor leading a major comic book movie, two decades before Black Panther made the idea look brand new.
The face in this clip cost him two to four hours of makeup every shoot day. Glued-on bodysuit, yellow contacts that shredded his eyes, a mask that choked his breathing. He credited his martial arts background for surviving days most actors would have walked off.
The film was a New Line gamble. Greenlit around $20M, ballooned past $40M once early effects footage came back, because the producers believed they could match Men in Black's visuals at half the cost. It pulled roughly $88M and got buried by critics on arrival.
Now look at what it opened. Blade arrived in 1998. Luke Cage, Black Panther, the entire run of Black-led comic adaptations followed. Black Panther alone cleared $1.3 billion in 2018.
The movie people file away as a forgotten misfire was the proof of concept for one of the most valuable lanes in modern Hollywood. White carried it there first, under a mask that barely let him breathe.
The cover of “Free Ride” in MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: THE MOVIE (1995) somehow has even more energy than the original. The movie is already operating at maximum 90s kid hype, and that song still finds a way to crank it higher.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) saves its most powerful moment for Inigo Montoya. After years of repeating the same introduction, the confrontation finally arrives and that rehearsed line transforms into something personal. One of the greatest payoffs in cinema.
@KiDCuDi I realized at the Hartford show that I’ve been rocking with you since 2011…and that you’ve now reached a younger crowd…I was getting the weird looks cuz I was older raging with the youngins…they couldn’t keep up with the set list, they ain’t know about that LOVE