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...only logical that the plot will eventually climax in a hunt through Chance's native swamps. What's unexpected is that Wilfrid Brimley will be in the marshes fighting along side Van Damme as Chance's uncle. Between "The Firm" and "Hard Target," Brimley seems to be going to great efforts to banish the Quaker Oats guy forever...
...crooks. Though ruthless and determined, they have a foppish quality and a refinement surprising for someone in their line of work. In one nice mise-en-scene bit Henriksen plays a Beethoven sonata in the drawing room of his estate while another homeless man is recruited for the next hunt. Henriksen's crony questions the victim about his finances and relatives. Each answer is intercut with shots of Henricksen and his opulent estate...
...talking about killing right whales, or sperm whales or blues. In fact, Norway, Iceland and Japan support the idea of a ban on hunting some species, but they say that those not endangered should be fair game. Observes Georg Blikfeldt of Norway's High North Association, a lobbying organization: "Nobody wants to hunt the large whales anymore because they are threatened. But the argument that whales must therefore not be hunted at all is like saying that because one breed of pig is on the verge of dying out, nobody should eat pork...
...nations that support whaling, it is a venerable way of life. Says Japan's Shimasaburo Hamai, 69, retired after 45 years as a harpooner in a land where monuments were once dedicated to the souls of hunted whales: "I want our whaling tradition to be passed on to the coming generation." Nordin Olafsson, master of the Norwegian whaling vessel Nybraena, calls the hunt "a vital part of our culture. It is hardly a major part of the national budget -- but for those fishermen who need it, it is a crucial source of income...
...other argument is that unlike their larger cousins, minke whales are so plentiful -- there are an estimated 86,700 living off the coast of Norway alone, and a total of 900,000 worldwide -- that a controlled hunt wouldn't harm the species. No less a body than the scientific committee of the IWC has decided that the minkes could indeed tolerate a limited hunt; the committee recommended that the whaling ban be partly lifted...