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From the Academy Award(tm)-winning* director of Rocky and The Karate Kid comes a story as explosive as today's headlines. Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact), John Gielgud (Arthur) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) star in The Power of One, a compelling, hard-hitting movie from hit-maker John G. Avildsen. An orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs, young PK turns to his only friend: a kindly, world-wise prisoner (Freeman) who teaches him how to box. "Little beat big when little smart," the prisoner tells PK. "First with the head, then with the heart." Living by those words, PK (Dorff) fights with his fists and leads with his heart as he grows to manhood. He takes on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference. *1976 Best Director for Rocky.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.This product is expected to play back in DVD Video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.
---...and silly boogers who gripe about how a film doesn't wholly recapitulate a novel need a length of two-by-four applied briskly about the head and shoulders as a necessary distraction.I'm also one of the folks who read *The Power of One* years before this film was made. Like most novels, it's a pretty big hunk of fiction. One of the reasons why the work of hack SF writer Phillip K. Dick gets made into so many movies (apart from the fact that he's as much the darling of the MLA as he is the object of old-line science fiction fannish contempt) is that he wrote lots of short fiction - novelettes and novellas*** -- and the average movie script really can't encompass more of characterization, detail and plot than is contained in a novelette.If you're a screenwriter or a producer, you can't expect to pack into a two-hour movie every character and plot element of a novel exactly as written. Even the bladder-busting *Lord of the Rings* and *Harry Potter* movies don't do that.Frankly, when I saw *The Power of One* I was disappointed to discover that the guard sergeant who murdered Geel Piet *didn't* die the slow agony of metastatic cancer (as framed in the novel) instead of enjoying the quick and relatively painless off-stage fate of simply getting found hanged by the neck in Geel Piet's cell. Shucks.But I knew enough to live with my disappointment, and that means I can enjoy this movie *AND* the novel, each as an example of good art. If the best revenge is living better than the boob who offends you, let's take it as given that I'm enjoying perfect vengeance on the most oafish of my predecessors on this site.Take that, you clods.--------------*** SFWA defines a novelette as being between 7,500 and 17,499 words -- between short story and novella length -- while the novella is defined as running from 17,500 to 39,999 words. 40,000 words and more is by their definition a novel.
