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| A Vehicle at a Walmart Parking |
SUNRISE - A shooting at a Walmart parking lot in Sunrise left one man dead.
Sunrise police said an employee was walking to his vehicle early Wednesday morning at the store along West Oakland Park Boulevard and North University Drive.
He was approached by a man with a gun and the two exchanged words, said police. The employee is a concealed weapons permit holder and took out a gun.
He fired his weapon and fatally shot the man, said police. The employee was not injured.
An investigation is underway. Police said they believe this is a self-defense case and a possible armed robbery.
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| Michael Jackson |
It’s Michael Jackson’s birthday. He would have been 51 years old on Monday.
The world lost a true icon when Jackson passed away on June 25, 2009, but his legacy lives on through his music and league of diehard fans.
Celebrate the beloved King of Pop and check out a list filled with interesting facts, songs and quotes from Jackson below:
He used let his pet snake loose in the studio: In an interview with The Guardian, famous music producer Quincy Jones recalled the countless times Jackson would show up at the studio with his chimpanzees and Muscles, his pet snake. “I didn’t like that. The snake used to wrap itself around my leg. Man, I didn’t like that at all. It would call in the console. I’m not into snakes,” Jones said, detailing one day he and Jackson found Muscles stuck in a bird cage. “One day I said, ‘Where’s Muscles?’ and we went downstairs and Muscles was in the parrot cage. He had just eaten the parrot and his head got stuck in the bars of the cage.”
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| United Airline Pilots Arrested For Being Too Drunk |
Two pilots were arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a transatlantic passenger jet from Scotland to the US.
Concerns were reportedly raised over the pilots before the 9am United Airlines UA162 flight to Newark, New Jersey, was due to depart from Glasgow Airport on Saturday.
Police said the two men - aged 35 and 45 - were arrested and detained in police custody.
The flight, carrying 141 passengers, eventually took off on Saturday evening with a new crew on board.
The men are expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court on Monday.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police Scotland can confirm that two men aged 35 and 45 have been arrested and are presently detained in police custody in connection with alleged offences under the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, Section 93."
The section of the Act relates to carrying out pilot function or activity while exceeding the prescribed limit of alcohol.
A spokesman for Glasgow Airport added: "We are aware of the police incident yesterday involving two pilots."
The incident follows the appearance in court last month of two Canadian pilots charged with being drunk as they prepared to fly a passenger jet from Scotland to Toronto.
Jean-Francois Perreault, 39, and Imran Zafar Syed, 37, were arrested on Monday July 18 before they were due to take off on the Air Transat flight from Glasgow Airport.
The men were remanded in custody when they first appeared at Paisley Sheriff Court, also charged under section 93 of the same Act.
At a second hearing at the same court they were granted bail on condition they surrender their passports.
Section 93 of the Railway and Transport Safety Act states: ''A person commits an offence if he performs an aviation function at a time when the proportion of alcohol in his breath, blood or urine exceeds the prescribed limit, or he carries out an activity which is ancillary to an aviation function at a time when the proportion of alcohol in his breath, blood or urine exceeds the prescribed limit.''
For pilots, the limit of alcohol in the case of breath is nine microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres, according to the Act.
A spokesman for United Airlines said: "The two pilots have been removed from service and their flying duties.
"We are co-operating with the authorities and will conduct our own investigation as well. The safety of our customers and crew is our highest priority."
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| Yellowstone National Park |
An Ecuadorian woman has fallen to her death at Grand Canyon of Yellowstone National Park.
Estefania Liset Mosquera Alcivar, 21, was a park concession worker from Quito, Ecuador, and in the U.S. on a visa.
She fell into the canyon at Grandview Point at around 3.15am on Friday while socializing with co-workers near a huge drop.
She was near a trail along the edge of the canyon when she plunged to her death.
Her companions saw her fall and dialed 911.
Rescuers spotted her body in the canyon at first light. They determined the fall was not survivable.
Search and rescue crews used a helicopter to recover her body later in the morning.
Yellowstone officials say the death is under investigation.
Tributes flooded in from friends and family after officials revealed she had died.
Relative Jose Verdezoto Mosquera wrote on Facebook in Spanish: 'You have no idea how much I miss you my you. I'll always remember you as that beautiful girl and full of life.
'We lost you but heaven is so lucky to have won a beautiful and wise little angel.
'May God bless you and be always at your side. This is not a goodbye just a see you soon.'
Michelle Bonilla, her friend, added: 'Thank you for so many years of loving us so much my little tefita.
'I leave a little hole in my soul but always always close together. I love you so much friend. Rest in peace.'
Another friend wrote: 'I'll miss your bright spirit, Estefi. You were always so kind to everyone; it hurts so much to know you're gone. Rest in peace, beautiful girl. '
Park officials released a statement urging visitors to use caution when using certain trails.
An Oregon man died at Yellowstone in June when he walked off the boardwalk at Norris Geyser Basin, slipped and fell into a hot spring.
Earlier that month a 13-year-old boy was burned when his father, who had been carrying him, slipped into a different spring.
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| Grace VanderWaal With Beautiful Thing Lyrics |
Watch 'America's Got Talent' Singer Grace VanderWaal Crush It, Again
You probably haven't heard of Grace VanderWaal yet, but there's a good chance you will. The 12-year-old singer has been blazing a path through the current season of America's Got Talent, earning heaps of praise from the judges, who've compared her to Taylor Swift, with good reason.
On
Tuesday night (Aug. 23), the preternaturally mature singer from Suffern, New
York, did it again, crushing hearts with an original ukulele ballad inspired by
her older sister, Olivia, entitled "Beautiful Thing." She earned a rare
standing ovation from hard-to-please judge Simon Cowell, who said even though
she hit some bum notes, it was perfect.
"There
is something so sweet and charming about you and so real," Cowell said.
"I am going to predict we're all going to remember the moment in years to
come when we saw Grace sing live for the first time."
"You're
my other half / You're amazing to me," VanderWaal sang in her scratchy
voice, describing how she can do nothing at all with her big sis and be totally
happy.
Cowell
was joined in the praise-a-thon by Howie Mandel, who earlier in the season used
his golden buzzer to advance VanderWaal to the live shows on the strength
of another original, "I Don't Know My Name," about trying to get
noticed in this big, wide world.
"You are a superstar... you're the best thing
I've ever seen on this show," Mandel said of the tween whose audition
videos have racked up more than 100 million YouTube views to date. He said she
might have the potential to be "bigger than Taylor Swift. I predict you
are the biggest star to ever come out of this show."
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A tropical wave that's spinning in the Caribbean is forecast to strengthen and could hit both Florida and the sodden Gulf Coast over the next few days, possibly as a hurricane, meteorologists say.
The system has a 60% chance of developing into a tropical depression or named storm within the next two days, according to the National Hurricane Center. If it gets a name, it would be Hermine (Her-MEEN), the 8th named storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season.
After a potential hit as a hurricane in Florida, the system could then get pushed into the Gulf of Mexico, with the potential for a second landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast next week, possibly as a strong hurricane, weather.com meteorologist Jon Erdman reported.
"A track somewhere through Florida or the Florida Straits and into the Gulf appears to be the most likely outcome," according to the Weather Underground.
That's dreadful news for portions of Louisiana still reeling from catastrophic flooding last week that killed 13 people and left thousands of homes underwater.
With the moist, saturated soil in Louisiana, the area "could quickly experience flooding again," according to National Weather Service meteorologist Timothy Destri of the New Orleans office. The worst case would be if the storm hits to the west of the region, which would bring the heaviest rain into Louisiana, he said.
As of late Wednesday afternoon, several rivers in Louisiana remain in flood stage, the Lower Mississippi Valley River Forecast Center said.
The system, which was located about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami late Wednesday afternoon, is forecast to take a general west to west-northwest path near the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday.
If it hits Florida as a hurricane, it would be the first hurricane to strike the Florida Peninsula since Wilma in October 2005," according to Accu Weather hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski.
Regardless of whether or not the system becomes a tropical storm or hurricane, gusty winds, heavy rains, and possible flash floods and mudslides should occur over the islands of the northeastern Caribean Sea and the Bahamas, the hurricane center warned.
"All people living and having interests in and around the Bahamas, Cuba and Florida should closely monitor the movement of this evolving tropical system through this weekend," Kottlowski added.
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| Jason Heyward has time to get hot |
As Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward returned to the starting lineup Monday for the first time since four days of mental cleansing on the bench, it was tempting to view the final six weeks of the season as his 39-game tryout for a starting job in the playoffs.
But that’s clearly not how manager Joe Maddon sees it – at least not with this much time left before October.
And Jason Heyward?
“I’m not worried about six weeks. I’m worried about tomorrow,” said Heyward, who three pitches after missing an RBI double by inches foul, hit his first homer since July in the fifth inning of Monday’s 5-1 victory over the Padres.
“Playoff wise, my teammastes know I can help this tema win,” He said. “My manager, my coaches — I know I can help this team win. That’s the bottom line.”
Heyward’s two-run shot was his lone hit in four at-bats, but “the kind of thing that can get his confidence going and get him going in the right direction offensively,” said Maddon, who pontificate on Heyward’s potential playoff role or status.
“I just want to make the playoffs and then we’ll take it from there,” the manager said. “He’s still got six weeks or so. There’s so much baseball to be played. So many different things are going to occur.
“He could become the hottest hitter in the National League over
the next month, and he’s very capable of that. I don’t even think about the
playoffs; I don’t think about playoff rosters.”
Heyward, whose season-long slump included a .225 average and
just five home runs entering Monday’s game, has struggled even worse since the
All-Star break: .170 with one homer.
The break seemed to help by the fifth inning, when he drove a
two-run homer just over the glove of leaping right fielder Patrick Kiviehan
with two outs. It was his first homer since July 29.
“It’s good to come through and help,” said Heyward, who laughed
off talk about how he felt getting back on the field after the four-day layoff.
Maddon said his only message to Heyward upon his return was:
“Just go play.”
“I want to see a smile on his face, playing hard like he always
does,” Maddon said. “I’d rather see him cut back on his work right now and just
play the game. I want him fresh mentally and physically, because there’s so
many different ways he can help you win a baseball game.
“He can’t try anything differently. He can’t work any harder.
It’s impossible. So just go play.”
Whether the $184 million contract “has got to weigh on you a
little bit” in the first year, as Maddon suggested, the manager said he’s been
impressed with Heyward’s poise and steady demeanor through the struggles.
“What you’re talking about is emotional intelligence,” Maddon
said.
And what he, at least, is not talking about is playoffs and
Heyward’s would-be role at that point.
“I don’t worry about stuff like that,” Maddon said. “I’ve been
involved in the playoffs several times. I don’t get ahead of myself ever, and I
don’t want to do that now.”
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| Conor McGregor |
Conor McGregor has quickly emerged as one of the biggest attractions in the history of MMA thanks to his bold trash talking and success inside the Octagon. He was supposed to fight Rafael Dos Anjos for the lightweight title earlier this year when Dos Anjos pulled out.
Nate Diaz took the fight on short notice and scored the upset win in front of the second biggest pay-per-view audience in MMA history.
Now, McGregor is
gunning for revenge while Diaz seeks to reaffirm the result of the first fight.
Round 1. McGregor opens with a couple low kicks.
McGregor continues to hammer the leg. Diaz lands a nice punch up the middle.
Diaz throws some leg kicks of his own. McGregor appears to stagger Diaz a
little with a left hand. He then drops Diaz with another. Diaz gets back up.
Diaz connects with a solid right hook. McGregor continues to throw those leg
kicks. He will then follow with power punches. McGregor lands a nice 1-2 punch
combination to the body and head. McGregor lands a hard left hand straight up the
middle. Diaz lands a few jabs of his own. That was a dominant round for
McGregor. 10-9 McGregor.
Round 2. McGregor goes back to work on Diaz's
lead leg. He then drops Diaz with a left hand and calls for Diaz to return to
his feet. McGregor drops Diaz again with another punch. He has Diaz stand back
up but Diaz does so slowly. Diaz is bleding from the face, although it appears
to mostly be coming from the nose and not in the eyes. McGregor attacks the
body with punches. Diaz is struggling to get off. He also isn't able to take
advantage of his reach advantage. Diaz begins to add the pressure in the second
half of the round, opening up with punches and moving forward. McGregor moves
away. Diaz clearly thinks McGregor is tiring. Diaz catches McGregor with some
solid punches up against the cage with less than a minute left. He's pouring it
on. This is like a replay of the first fight. Still McGregor's round. 10-9
McGregor.
Winner: Anthony Johnson, KO, round 1
Johnson has probably the scariest power in the
sport and he showed it again tonight. Any opponent facing Johnson has to know
that to get a win, they are going to have to weather some serious early danger.
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| Clayton Fire Destroys California Home |
Northern California's Clayton Fire Destroys More than 175 Buildings, Chars 4,000 Acres, Forces Thousands to Evacuate.
Araging wildfire that has destroyed more than 175 buildings in Northern California swelled to 4,000 acres on Monday, forcing residents to flee their lake community as homes and businesses burned to the ground.
By
Monday evening, the Clayton fire was only 5% contained, according to the state
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Gov.
Jerry Brown issued a state of emergency for Lake County, where the blaze has
forced the entire community of Lower Lake — more than 100 miles north of San
Francisco — to evacuate. The governor’s order will help expedite aid to those
affected by the fire.
The
fire broke out late Saturday afternoon off Highway 29 and Clayton Creek Road,
then doubled in size on Sunday as it reached Main Street in Lower Lake. There,
flames ripped through the post office, a winery, a Habitat for Humanity office
and several other businesses, the Associated Press reported. Sixteen patients
at a hospital in nearby Clearlake had to be transferred to a facility about 25
miles away.
"You
can’t imagine what took place", Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean said.
There was extreme fire behavior and winds that pushed it across the road into
structure after structure after structure. We had airplanes dropping retardant,
helicopters dropping thousands of gallons of water — trying to get ahead of
this.
After
destroying four homes before sunrise on Monday, the pace of the fire’s growth
slowed, according to Lake County law enforcement officials. Firefighters spent
the day working to bulldoze a ring around the fire area, while helicopters and
tankers dropped retardant and water.
The count of destroyed structures remained at 175,
mostly concentrated in Lower Lake’s small, single-street commercial
district. But along the wooded ridge behind the shoreline community, dark
plumes rose occasionally during the day — a signal that flames overtook another
structure or vehicle.
The state’s lingering drought has hit Lake County
particularly hard and contributed to the rapid spread of flames, fire officials
said.
Daytime high temperatures in Lake County, near the
fire, are expected to hover around 100 degrees through mid-week, said Eric
Kurth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento. By
Thursday, the area should cool slightly, with high temperatures Friday and
through the weekend projected in the lower 90s, he said.
The evenings are expected to be cooler, with
temperatures forecast in the upper 60s, but they’re “definitely warm evenings,”
Kurth said.
“It’s nothing that’s extraordinary, not
record-setting, but it is hot — it’s seasonably hot,” Kurth said.
The Clayton fire is burning in an area between last
year’s devastating Valley, Rocky and Jerusalem fires, which broke out
around the Lower Lake area.
Nearly 200 people forced out of their homes in Lower
Lake spent Sunday night in an American Red Cross shelter set up at Twin
Pine Casino & Hotel in nearby Middletown — a tiny town that was
itself ravaged by the Valley fire,
one of the worst fires in California history, just 11 months ago.
The casino was certainly ready: The Red Cross had left
behind two trailers of cots and care kits when it pulled out of town last year,
and the casino had opened itself up as a fire shelter even before being
declared one, said Kyle Lewis, a spokesman for the casino.
“Fire survivors” as they’re called locally
— people who lost their homes to last year’s fires — had lived
for months in the casino and hotel. The last of them had left just a few weeks
ago, Lewis said. And now the hotel is full again with members of the Middletown
Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California (which owns and operates the facility)
and casino employees forced out of their homes by the Clayton fire.
The back-to-back wildfires have changed how Lewis, 37,
a relative newcomer, views life in the rolling hills of Lake County. He
was forced from his home last year for a week and considers himself lucky to
have just had superficial property damage. He knows many others who lost
their homes.
“I think it has made us a very strong community that I
am very proud of,” he said.
At Hardester’s Market & Hardware, which has
anchored Middletown since 1943, clerks said they had already met their first
double-fire survivors: a family burned out of Middletown by the Valley fire
just lost their new home in Lower Lake just up the road. A cashier at the
flower stand wondered aloud, as many in the community are doing, if the Clayton
fire was arson.
We’ve always had fires, but never this big,” she said.
“And in the anniversary of the last three.”
Store owner Ross Hardester said Lake County residents
are devastated to be going through such loss again.
“There was such a good buzz; we were starting to
recover,” he said. The town was swept by flames last year and had gotten
through the first bleak month, and then the painful Christmas holidays, and was
starting to see permits being issued and new homes going up on charred lots.
“Now this,” Hardester said. “So many people are on
edge again.”
Tessie Espinosa fled her Lower Lake house the moment
she saw smoke.
“We’ve learned that you can’t trust for warnings to
get out,” she said.
Espinosa is an administrator for the senior center in
Middletown, where elderly clients interrupted her every few minutes Monday for
updates on what was destroyed the night before and what was still standing in
Lower Lake. Her tone was light and reassuring — but on the “I am not sure”
list is her own house.
She pulled out her phone and showed a state map of the
four major fires that have affected the region. She pointed at a small,
unburned area in the center.
“That’s where we live,” she said.
The Clayton fire is one of several wildfires
burning throughout California.
The Chimney fire that broke out near Lake
Nacimiento in San Luis Obispo County has burned 5,400 acres, destroyed 12
structures and is threatening 200 more, Cal Fire said Monday.
Citing the Chimney fire’s damage to homes and critical
infrastructure, Brown also issued a state of emergency for San Luis Obispo
County.
Evacuations have taken place in a handful of
communities, including Running Deer Ranch and Cal Shasta. Two people have been
injured by the blaze.
The fire was first reported about 4 p.m. Saturday near
the intersection of Running Deer and Chimney Rock roads, according to Cal Fire.
Active through the night, the fire was slowed about 1
a.m. by air pressure at a higher elevation pushing down and trapping cooler
temperatures, Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said. This blanket, known as an
inversion layer, prevents smoke from rising and decelerates any flames.
Once that inversion layer began to lift Sunday, the
Chimney fire increased in activity, prompting officials to bring in additional
firefighters and resources from across the region.
Berlant said several hundred fire personnel were on
the scene, as well as large air tankers.
“It’s been burning this afternoon at an explosive
rate,” he said.
The fire was 10% contained.
The Soberanes fire, a deadly blaze burning north of
Big Sur, has wiped out nearly 60 homes, burned more than 74,600 acres and
claimed the life of a bulldozer operator.
Cal Fire officials said the fire, which was started by
an illegal campfire, was 60% contained.
The wildfires underscore the elevated risks
Southern California faces as it endures yet another summer heat wave, which
forecasters say will continue until Wednesday.
The combination of very hot, dry and windy conditions
increases the potential for wildfires in the mountains of Ventura and Los
Angeles counties, as well as in the foothills in Antelope Valley, said Rich
Thompson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Several Southland communities saw triple-digit
temperatures over the weekend, including Van Nuys, Chatsworth and Palm Springs.
On Sunday, temperatures hit 104 in Woodland Hills and 111 in Thermal.
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| Milwaukee Riots 2016 |
Milwaukee Crowd Turns Violent After Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man
Simmering anger over the fatal shooting of a man by police erupted in violence on Milwaukee's north side, with protesters skirmishing with officers over several hours and setting fire to at least four businesses in an outburst the mayor says was fed by social media.
The uprising that broke out Saturday evening didn't subside until after midnight, after Mayor Tom Barrett and other city leaders appeared at a news conference to plead for calm. Police said three people were arrested, and one officer was hurt by a brick thrown into a squad car.
The triggering event came Saturday afternoon, when a man fleeing police after a traffic stop was shot and killed. Police said the man was armed, but it wasn't clear whether he was pointing the gun or aiming it at officers. Barrett said the man was hit twice, in the chest and arm. Neither his race nor the officer's was immediately released, nor were they identified.
The shooting was being investigated by the state. The officer was wearing a body camera, Barrett said.
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Milwaukee Riots 2016
By Unknown
This is a surprise -
Disney’s Pete’s Dragon remake is one of the summer’s better movies - and that
would have been the case even in a summer that wasn’t largely dominated by
lousy sequels and tired franchise extensions.
On the surface, remaking
the 1977 film about an orphan boy and the singing cartoon dragon that takes
care of him isn’t the smartest idea. That movie was fine in places (especially
when the characters sang), but it also represented the very worst of overly
sweet Disney sentimentality, working to tug viewers’ heartstrings so hard it
developed flop sweat.
The 2016 Pete’s Dragon,
while not flawless, succeeds because in a summer full of bombast, it’s content
to be quiet. And in a story that’s about the importance of companionship, it’s
not afraid to let its characters face real risk and real loss. First and
foremost, Pete’s Dragon is a movie about real people; the mysterious dragon
that brings them together is secondary.
It’s also the type of movie Disney has always made at
its best — and in this case, it has a most unexpected filmmaker to thank.
Director David
Lowery makes Pete’s Dragon as special as it is
Pete’s Dragon hails from indie director David Lowery,
who’s never worked on a film this big before. (Keep in mind that
"big" is pretty relative here. Pete’s Dragon is still much, much
smaller than most other major studio summer releases.) Would I have expected,
given his previous work, that Lowery would prove so successful at making a
kids’ film about a dragon? Not at all. But a closer look at his résumé reveals
why he was the best man for the job.
Lowery’s breakthrough film (his second) was 2013’s
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, an oddly light-on-conflict crime drama about a man
who just wants to be with his wife and daughter, though he’s in jail. Lowery
indulged in all the tropes of the genre — the action sequences and the
hotheaded criminals and the doomed love affairs between criminals and the women
they love — but he coated it in what almost felt like a fine layer of gauze,
muting everything slightly.
It’s tempting to place Lowery in the tradition of
Terrence Malick, the great American director whose films spend almost as much
time focusing on the natural landscape surrounding their characters as they do
on the characters themselves. Famously, Malick’s war film, The Thin Red Line,
is just as interested in how war disrupts the natural world as in how it
disrupts the affairs of men.
And certainly, Lowery has a similar interest in the
beauty of nature and in the quiet meditation that one might experience when
surrounded by trees.
But I’m not sure it’s precisely accurate to peg Lowery
in that fashion, and Pete’s Dragon points to why. Lowery, see, is interested in
ideas of community, in the ways that people come together to either help each
other out or do each other harm. Pete’s Dragon is set in a vivid movie small
town that feels as if it were plucked from the early 1980s, but has just enough
trappings of modernity to suggest an eerily timeless quality.
Lowery is also interested in process, in the way that
humans get things done together, and he has a refreshing lack of judgment for
his characters. It would be tempting to present the film’s villain, a logger
played by Karl Urban, as someone who wants to cut down the woods where Elliot
lives, slashing and burning until nothing is left.
But the logger is not that, not really. He just wants
to stand out, to make a name for himself. So when he learns of the dragon, he
organizes a hunting party (which Lowery spends time observing the formation
of).
Pete’s Dragon also contains lots of shots of people
just doing stuff, like woodworking or checking trees for signs of disease or
strapping massive payloads to the back of flatbed trucks. Where Malick sees
people as insignificant in the face of nature, Lowery sees humankind as a
fascinating, integral part of nature. We’re all little worker ants to him, and
when we come into contact with something wondrous — like a dragon that can
disappear — we’ll attack the problem like the busy little bugs we are.
Pete’s Dragon is a
surprisingly meditative kids' film — in a great way
If Lowery is fascinated by community, then he’s most
fascinated by the communities within our communities — the family units we form
almost by instinct. The director sets up the journey of orphan Pete (played
with just the right amount of reserve by Oakes Fegley) not as one of finding
his rightful place but one of realizing that there is more than one path our
lives can take, especially when lived alongside loved ones.
And the film sets up a great surrogate family for Pete
to fall into, led by Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace and Wes Bentley as Jack.
Truth be told, the two are perhaps a little too
perfect — one longs for Pete to fall in alongside some adults as
rough-and-tumble as he and his new young friend Natalie (Oona Laurence) are —
but Pete’s Dragon is at its best when it seems as if Lowery is reminding us why
people started forming families and communities in the first place. (Sadly
underused is Robert Redford as Grace’s father, though he gets one lovely
monologue.)
Yes, there are flaws. The villain’s plan sort of
arrives out of nowhere, and it’s dispatched with almost as quickly. And there
are perhaps a few too many close-up shots of the dragon making funny faces, as
if all involved were worried the kids would feel lost within the film’s
meditative tone.
But I don’t think anybody should worry about losing
the kids. Pete’s Dragon features some great dialogue-free stretches, when it’s
just Pete and Elliot wandering the woods and keeping each other company. They
boast the gently rollicking feel of some of the works produced by Japan’s
acclaimed Studio Ghibli (which has made My Neighbor Totoro and Spirit Away,
among others).
The only reason some of the other stuff doesn’t work
as well is that the material in the woods has set such a high bar.
And then there’s that dragon, which is perhaps a
little too cute — in the grand tradition of Disney selling as
many toys as possible — but also somehow manages to simultaneously resemble
every dog or cat you’ve ever owned. It’s at once pet and
protector, progeny and parent, and it never once sings. It doesn’t need to. The
wind in the trees and the hushed birdsong are more than enough.
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