The plot of the 1993 New Orleans shot Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle, Hard Target (1993) is kind of a "Most Dangerous Game" knock off. A criminal organization sells "human hunting" trips to wealthy scumbags. They select a homeless person as the quarry whose goal is to make across town alive for a $10,000 prize. The film is purposefully trashy but the artfully shot John Woo action sequences and 1990s New Orleans settings make for solid entertainment. Varg and I talked about it on Catch Basin Cinema a couple of years ago! Check that out if you like.
Anyway, like I said, there are some memorable stunts and set pieces in the movie. Van Damme dodges bullets, leaps from great heights, and evades capture by a motorcycle gang in a cemetery. Something tells me, this is ripe for a reboot. Just one slight casting change..
Scrim, New Orleans' legendary runaway dog, eluded capture once again on Thursday, slipping out of an Uptown cemetery just as his pursuers closed in.
Based on multiple sightings, Scrim was traveling through the Freret neighborhood early Thursday afternoon, not far from the site of his most recent and most daring escape, according to Michelle Cheramie, owner of Zeus' Rescues. She spent months earlier this year tracking the dog, and had been keeping him in her home since he was captured in October.
At roughly 2 p.m. on Thursday, Cheramie texted The Times-Picayune to report that she and her team of dog trackers were closing in on the Crescent City’s favorite fugitive dog.
But the speedy pup eluded capture once again.
"We had him in the cemetery at the corner of Lasalle and Soniat. I had trailed him there from Napoleon. He was three blocks from my house, and it kind of felt like he was coming home," Cheramie said by phone.
Maybe an older, wiser, Valerio in the Wilford Brimley role? We'll have our people make some calls.
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