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Editor says, what if John Travolta had changed the direction of his career? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the September 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 2011, relaunching his movie career for the fourth time, actor John Travolta turned his back on the violent character roles that he had played for the previous seventeen years.
Change of DirectionHe played the disturbed manic super agent Charlie Wax (pictured) in his final violent movie, "From Paris With Love" filmed just days before the tragic death of his sixteen year old son.
Following a period of grieving he became refocused in the relief activities in Haiti. Using his expertise as a pilot, he flew a jetliner carrying earthquake relief supplies, doctors and ministers into Port-au-Prince. And it was during this period out of the movie business that he reflected upon his unintentional impact as an role model for gun culture. He decided that he had accidentially become a bone-headed anti-hero, like Charlie Wax. Because in a sense, the characterization was an accident caused by Quentin Taratino selecting him for the part of Vincent Vega in the 1994 movie "Pulp Fiction". He mused he might even "go grey", a reference to the post-Fonz characters played by Henry Winkler.
Rumours soon followed of a further revelation involving a possible split with the Church of Scientology.
Entry posted by Todayinah Editor
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Movies Source: Wikipedia Labels: Premature Death, John Travolta, Church of Scientology, Religion, Holywood. Editor says, in reality he promoted his new film, "From Paris With Love". The movie was filmed in late 2008, and shooting wrapped just days before Jett Travolta died on Jan. 2, 2009. Thanks to Eric Oppen for his contribution to the development of this post.
~ Another relaunch? How much fuel does the old man have left in his rocket?
~ Maybe redo _Saturday Night Fever_ as _Saturday Night Feeble?_ *grin, duck, run*
~ But there IS a new genre called "geri-action," which attracted aging stars like Helen Mirren and George Clooney. So Travolta might be lured back to action films.
~ All the movie stars, former stars, or near stars who were seventeen years of age or older in 1973 decide to get in touch with their inner hippies and start making anti-war, pro-peace, pro-love and occasionally trippy movies. Within a year younger stars decide to get in on the act, and a year later the "young guns... um... not guns" of today get into the act. You can generally tell which generation is involved, even without looking, by whether the soundtrack features the Beatlea and the Byrds, KC & the Sunshine Band and the Bee Gees, or DEADMAU5 and 1200 Micrograms.
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