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by Kelley Jarvis
November 4, 2009
The latest exploits of Nick Newman and his
half-brother Adam reminds me quite a bit of the film
"Nobel Son." Have some of the suits been watching
something with a bit of substance? Say it ain't so!
If Nick had a shred of common sense, he might cross
over to his half-brother's way of thinking and try a
trick from the film "Nobel Son." In the film, a
young man is kidnapped for his father's $1 million
stipend awarded with the Nobel Prize. The young
man's father, portrayed by Alan Rickman, is a
Machiavellian, first-class bastard who is on the
deluded power trip of a lifetime and suffers from an
inflated sense of entitlement. He is absolutely
ruthless. Relationships are forged by this man only
as a means for the end result, whatever pleases and
benefits him. Does this sound like a certain fellow
from Genoa City who tends to mumble?
While the young man is kidnapped, he learns that the
man who kidnapped him is his half-brother. The two
young men forge a financially inspired,
revenge-fueled bond to collect the million dollars
and split it, cheating their not-so-dear-old-dad out
of this considerable chunk of change. If Adam could
convince Nick to try something along these lines,
Nick might grudgingly earn respect from the father
he worships, the man who treats Nick as if he were a
rather dimwitted lap dog, saying that he's a "good
boy!" Unfortunately, the best Nick could do, with
his limited canine mindset would be to pee on TGVN's
leg.
Nick's admonition to stay away from Sharon smacks of
"Nobel Son." In the film, once the so-called
kidnapped young man is safely home again with his
parents, to his horror, his step-brother moves into
a guest house and quickly makes the moves on his
younger brother's girlfriend. Finally the younger
brother reaches his wits' end and dispatches of his
slightly older brother in a spectacular stunt
involving a hidden car in a garage. Will Adam meet
his maker at the hands of Nick?
I doubt Nick would have the 'stones' to take on such
an ambitious project since he's preoccupied with
whining like a little girl about Billy Abbott
publishing a story about his daddy. It's scary to
think that if ol' Mumbles did bite the dust, the
heir apparent would actually be Newman's air-headed
"good boy." So much for Newman Enterprises!
Speaking of business, if the scribes would put some
extra thought into storylines, they could possibly
create tales with substance without having to
blatantly borrow or steal ideas from films. |
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