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Show 5 Does 'Hancock compare to tjest plot twists? By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Will Smith movie packs in millions of people. No surprises there. Yet Smith's "Hancock," the tale of an anti-social boozer who happens to be a superhero, comes with an abrupt plot twist, one that has divided critics and the moviegoing public in the real world . For those who have yet to see . "Hancock," we won't give the secret away, but it has something to do with why Charlize Theron's soccer-mom-style character doesn't want Smith's surly superhero anywhere near her family. Critics generally thought the turn the movie takes halfway through was a cheat, spoiling what had been a promising idea that was a fresh twist on the superhero genre in its own right. The people who turned "Hancock" into an instant blockbuster beg to differ - to the sum of $185 million worldwide at the box office in just a few days. The plot twist in "Hancock" won't go down in cinema history alongside Darth Vader revealing C-9 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 9-11, 2008 he's Luke Skywalker's father in "The Empire Strikes Back" or Anthony Perkins turning out to be a slasher in his mom's housedress in "Psycho." However, it does give us a chance to buzz once more about the really great curve balls - and maybe a wild pitch or two - that Hollywood has tossed our way. Here's a look at some of the most memorable screen surprises, in no particular order: a true stunner earlier in "Psycho" as the killer snuffed Janet Leigh, the movie's lead character up to that moment. That's like Dickens having Oliver Twist die of cholera in chapter three. Who do you root for when the heroine gets tossed in the trunk of her car and submerged in a swamp? stumbles on the noggin of the Statue of Liberty lying on the beach and realizes he's been on Earth all along - but in the distant future, after, his species has blown itself up. Tim Burton's remake substitutes a terrible twist as astronaut Mark Wahlberg makes it off the simian world and returns to his planet, only tofinda monkey named "Ape Lincoln" sitting on the Lincoln Memorial. • KEYSER SPACEY: As prime suspect Gabriel Byrne lay dying near the end of "The Usual • POOR BRUCE IS DEAD: With Suspects," you just had to wonder • MY GIRL: Has there ever been "Breakfast of Champions" and "Well if it's not him, who the heck a stranger what-the-heck moment "The Story of Us," Bruce Willis' is Keyser Soze?" Watching Kevin than the revelation that the entic- career might have been dead. But Spacey transform from the grubby, ing woman Stephen Rea lusts after M. Night Shyamalan kept him gimpy little Verbal Kint into in "The Crying Game" really is a alive by killing him off in the world-class criminal mastermind guy? The dreamlike gotcha ges- opening moments of "The Sixth Soze in the space of one city block ture delivered from beyond by Sense" but concealing that fact so is one of those moments, that Forest Whitaker's character was completely that movie-goers were makes you think "Yeah, this is why directed as much at heterosexual shocked into seeing the flick again I like movies." male audience members every- and again after they learned he where who had to hit the reset but- was a ghost. Audiences were • MY SISTER, MY MOM: Incest ton on their manhood after falling somewhat less than shocked with turns out to be the stuff of one of for Jaye Davidson as a hot new Shyamalan and Willis' next sur- cinema's most artful surprises at screen goddess only to learn he prise ending - superheroes are the end of "Chinatown," when we shared their XY chromosome real! - in "Unbreakable." learn that Faye Dunaway's little makeup. sister also is her daughter. 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Thompson in the 1998 film "Fear Hunter S. Thompson was, of and Loathing in Las Vegas" and course, a brilliant writer but also became his friend, provides narfamously self-destructive; he ration from his works in warm, ended his life, a never-ending low-key tones. (Gibney has also orgy of booze and drugs, when he included some of the more hallushot himself in 2005 at age 67. But cinatory clips from that underaphis death was an event that the preciated movie, directed by Kentucky gentleman had planned Terry Gilliam and based on meticulously, complete with a Thomspon's seminal book, as well memorial ceremony in which his as. a moment from 1980's "Where ashes were blasted into the night the Buffalo Roam," starring Bill sky from a 15-story tower. Murray as a cartoony version of Director Alex Gibney, an Thompson.) Academy Award winner this year Considering the wealth of for the documentary "Taxi to the available material and the rich Dark Side," explores the conflict- subject matter, it's actually amazing sides of Thompson's larger- ing Gibney got the running time than-life personality in clear-eyed down to two hours. He probably fashion. He has created a film could have spent that much time that's fair and thorough - some- alone on Thompson's botched trip to Zaire to cover the 1974 Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight for Rolling Stone magazine. That was a rare misstep for a man who revolutionized not just journalism but writing itself. Yes, we have an adequate amount of admiration for Thompson's prowess from colleagues such as Tom Wolfe, but we also have former editors recalling how he never made a deadline and was consistently remorseless about inconveniencing them. First wife Sondi Wright remembers that he could be warm and generous but that he was also capable of volatile rage - and she probably stuck by him for far too long when young, naked women were traipsing through the kitchen of their Woody Creek, Colo., home, even though this was a time of free love. As Thompson flourished as both a writer and pop culture figure, he was as acutely perceptive of himself as he was of the politicians he covered during the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. He knew that the cigarette holder and the sunglasses, the guns and the drugs, were all part of an elaborate character he'd concocted for himself. Or as Wenner, his longtime editor at Rolling Stone, puts it so well: "Hunter wanted a persona, but he became a hostage to that persona." Some of the musical choices from the 1960s and 1970s are a bit obvious (Dylan, "American Pie," etc.) and we don't see enough of Thompson in his later years. 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