is it a kind of dream?

David Warner is mostly left handed. Except he writes with his right hand.

When he hits someone, he hits them with his left hand. When he pours a drink, he pours with the left, twists  the cap with the left, etc. When he points or reaches for something, he reaches with the left. He even picks up a telephone with his left, and throws a ball with his left.

He just happens to write with his right hand, stab people, and pull a trigger with his right hand.

Handedness is fascinating to me.  And its becoming more and more obvious its a spectrum thing, not a black-or-white issue. A person isnt merely right or left handed, there can be any number of combinations in between the two.

I've got 40-someodd years of television/film of him to study specifically, and what i learn from it reflects people, people out there, and which hemisphere of their brain they're using at any given time. I find it really fascinating.

I'm a leftie who is mostly a leftie, though i do some things right sided, like use my mobile / text message, and kick footballs and peer through telescopes... but i am a leftie. If someone says hold out your hand, i'll give them the left one. But i use my mobile with my right, all my song choosing and text writing, etc. Wild isnt it. I use a mouse with my right as well.

I'm feeling the urge to do some David-as-a-closet-leftie picspam. Yes. I just need to cap the appropriate moments as I remember them and upload them.

I cant actually review it JUST YET because its currently transferring from VHS to DVD at the mo. Bless my husband for setting it up to record from VHS, yes. Clever boy he is; i'd never have sussed it, too many scart cables.

OMG i've seen David being all aboriginal and islandy and skinny and weird talking and SHIRTLESS.

Holy shit. *dies*

Michael Caine aint half bad either, all Cockney and blood soaked and adam's appley. Yes. And being chained up and forced to have sex with a woman.

I'm going to LOVE this movie, yes. As its a Peter Benchley movie as well, i can expect its 18 certification is well deserved, yes.

edited: Ok seen it. Michael Caine just mowed down 10x as many people with a machine gun as Dustin Hoffman did in Straw Dogs, and they go on about how 'gory' Peckinpah's movie was? Eh?

Good movie for a castaway on an island of savages fighting to rescue his son type movie, yes. Michael Caine is very good at what he does. David plays a lovely savage leader and has a cute ponytail and a good tan, I will be taking caps as soon as i rip my DVD, VLC doesnt like it as it is.

Otherwise, an unremarkable film.

Following on from a post of mine earlier re handedness being a spectrum, not a fixed left or right issue.

Warning - HEAVY on the bandwidth, yes. LOTS of pictures. mhr_kara, this is for you. And me too. And caribbean_moon.

There's no caps from The Island (1980) as I havent taken any yet, but i will, once i finally get to watch the movie. Yes.

I capped everything i could think of that seemed leftie to me. I tried to keep it to one or two caps from each movie that I could think of where he looked/acted especially left handed, but i tossed a few rightie ones in there as well as a young Robert Sean Leonard in his pants pic from My Best Friend is a Vampire, and Pat Troughton from The Omen.

( Cut for HEAVY BANDWIDTH David Warner picspam, approx 32 pics... )

Its by no means an exhaustive list of movies or left handed actions, and yet i'm exhausted just listing them all. Cripes.