#Keira Knightley Domino Harvey 2005

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IN THE WORDS OF THE LATE, GREAT DOMINO HARVEY...

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"My name is Domino Harvey. I am a bounty hunter. You're probably wondering how a girl like me arrived here. What I say will determine whether or not I spend the rest of my life in prison. Let's start at the beginning."

-- DOMINO HARVEY✝ (1969-2005), played by English actress Keira Knightley

FILM: "Domino" (2005)

DIRECTOR: Tony Scott✝

SCREENPLAY: Richard Kelly

STORY: Richard Kelly & Steve Barancik

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dan Mindel

STUDIO: New Line Cinema

Sources: MUBI, Pinterest, Screenmusings, Eye for Film, IMDb, [FILMGRAB], various, etc...

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Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey in Domino. (2005)

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Domino, 2005

 "I could feel the blood coursing through my veins. Shotgun in hand, kicking down a door and wondering if there was heavy firepower on the other side."

Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey

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Domino (2005)

Cross a rock music video and a teenage boy’s sex fantasy about Keira Knightly being a bounty hunter and you've got Domino. It’s a frequently incoherent, ludicrous tale supposedly based on true events (even if loosely) but you won't believe that statement for a second. No one alive in the real world could be as stupid as the people in this film.

It begins with a flashback, as Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) tells us the story of how a rich Beverly Hills girl decided she had enough of it all and decided to become a bounty hunter. After impressing Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke) and Choco (Edgar Ramirez) by saving their lives with a lap dance, the three become inseparable and she becomes L.A.’s greatest bounty hunter.

If there’s one thing I can credit the movie with, it’s that it’s got a definitive visual style. I didn’t personally care for it but it's undeniably unique-looking. The biggest mistake made concerns the characters, who aren't interesting even when they're stuck in this loony bin of a story. Domino may be based on a real person but she's a walking cliché. She’s supposed to be deep because she talks about the odds of her (and her friends) surviving these dangerous situations as being like the flip of a coin, 50/50, but every time she's in jeopardy it's by her own doing. We’re supposed to think she’s cool because she spits in the face of authority and doesn’t go for the whole Beverly Hills high-life. Considering her alternative choice is being a bounty hunter, she comes off as a bratty kid. There’s nothing to tell us why she’s so intent on bringing in criminals who have skipped their court dates except that she resented her mother and the life her now-dead father left her with. The movie tries so hard to create a strong female character out of Domino, but she’s about as 3-Dimensional as the disc you'll play her story from. If it isn’t obvious from the moment we see Domino save her skin by titillating the audience, she's here because of her sex appeal. It’s an attractive lady with guns and tattoos, going out and playing with the boys by tracking down criminals. That’s all she’s got. If the woman was 50 pounds heavier, or a man, no one would have considered her story, as mediocre as it is, worthy of telling in a film.

The supporting characters fare even worse. Mickey Rourke plays what I think is supposed to be a tragic character because there are hints that he’s depressed and possibly suicidal. He’s also an amateur. Domino meets him while he’s in the middle of stealing the money from the bounty-hunting seminar she paid for. She throws a knife at his car’s windshield and it embeds itself up to the hilt in the glass. He then asks her why he should consider her. Didn’t you just see her throw that knife?! I realize that bounty hunting isn’t exactly an art, but this man’s mission planning skills are so poor I’m surprised he's lived as long as he did.

Taking another plunge in the bad character pool, we now deal with Choco. I’m not entirely sure if this character is once again supposed to be cool and mysterious or sad, so I’ll let you decide. He spends the majority of the film pinning over Domino, but he’s too shy to say anything. He speaks Spanish to anyone that will listen to him (and particularly girls) in an effort to appear romantic. He doesn’t have any skills that contribute to the team except for the fact that he’s a young, handsome man with long, wavy black hair and isn't shy of stripping down to his underwear. At least it's him we're supposed to picture hooking up with Domino. Can you imagine if there was romantic tension between Knightley and Rourke?

I want to get to the dumpster dive of a plot of this movie, which includes a guy a tattoo on his arm that gives them the combination to a safe where a whole bunch of money is left. What do they do to get the money? They cut off his arm by blowing it off with a shotgun instead of using a fancy tool called a pen! And we’re supposed to cheer for them why? Because they don’t actually murder a guy, just handicap him for the rest of his life and terrorize his mother? Anyway. The plot of this movie, it’s dull. It’s told in flashback so you already know Domino isn’t in any genuine danger and you see dozens of characters introduced only so they can add to the convoluted story, which doesn’t really begin until the last 45 minutes of this 2hr+ movie.

Written by Richard Kelly, who falls even further from my graces (quite a feat considering Southland Tales) and directed by Tony Scott, Domino is nearly incomprehensible when it doesn't make you groan. It's self-indulgent and, ultimately, forgettable because of its lame characters and over-the-top attempts to be cool. (On DVD, August 24, 2014)  

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Cool things I’ve learned while researching stuff for my comic:

One of the best bounty hunters in modern times is thought to be a woman, Michelle Gomez. 

Another famous female bounty hunter is Domino Harvey, who died in 2005, right before a movie about her was released. She was played by Keira Knightley. 

Utah has a large Tongan community (2nd largest in the US after California), and Tonga is also the most Mormon country in the world, with 60% of the population being Mormons, although only 20-30% are active (i.e. regularly go to church)

There are pretty much no insects in the middle of the ocean, away from shorelines. (This one I kind of knew before, but it’s nice to have it confirmed.) Most marine insects live in the intertidal zone.  

Planes can usually fly over a hurricane, but not thunderstorms. “Thunderstorms create massive cloud structures with tops that can reach over 60,000 feet, well above the cruising altitude of commercial airplanes, while hurricanes typically do not.” - Jason Rabinowitz 

There’s this thing called “3D Ocean Farming”. It consists of horizontal ropes on the ocean’s surface, anchored to hurricane-proof floats that connect to lines underwater supporting seaweed crops and interspersed with hanging net enclosures to grow scallops and mussels. Clam and oyster cages, also connected to the surface ropes, sit on the seafloor. You can learn more about it on the non-profit Greenwave’s website. 

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Guilty Pleasure #21

DOMINO

Dir. TONY SCOTT; Wri. RICHARD KELLY; Music. HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS; Starring. KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, MICKEY ROURKE, EDGAR RAMIREZ, RIZ ABBASI, DELROY LINDO, MO’NIQUE, DABNEY COLEMAN, LUCY LIU, MACY GRAY, JACQUELINE BISSET, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, MENA SUVARI, STANLEY KAMEL, DALE DICKEY, LEW TEMPLE, TOM WAITS, BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN, IAN ZIERING, JERRY SPRINGER; R.T. 127 mins; 2005, USA/France/United Kigndom

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Domino Harvey (Knightley), the privileged daughter of English screen actor Laurence Harvey, gained an impressive measure of notoriety in the 1990s when she found work as a bounty hunter in the employ of successful Los Angeles bail bondsman Celes King III (Lindo). The film (sort of) tells the story of her introduction to the business, her rise to fame as one of the few female bounty hunters operating in the United States, and her hair-raising adventures in the company of her colleagues Ed Martinez (Rourke, playing him as the semi-fictional character “Ed Moseby”) and Choco (Ramirez).

WHY IT’S GUILTY: The late director Tony Scott was a true master of blockbuster cinema, EASILY as talented as his more acclaimed filmmaker brother Ridley but far more comfortable creating lowbrow, high-concept popcorn fare (most often with regular producer-collaborator Jerry Bruckheimer) in which style often seemed far more important than substance.  That’s not a detraction – I LOVE his movies, he made some of my all-time favourite thrillers and action flicks, EASILY winning me over with the likes of Crimson Tide, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance and Days of Thunder.  But he also made more than his fair share of clunkers (Man On Fire was enjoyable and evocative at times but also frustratingly tonally schizophrenic, while the less said about Enemy of the State and The Fan the better), and this COULD be counted among them.  Abrasive, hyperactive, occasionally misogynistic and frequently full-on batshit crazy, it was almost universally reviled by critics (although it WAS praised by the late, great Roger Ebert), and ultimately grossed less than half its budget, a major box office flop with audiences clearly no more impressed with the finished article than the press.  Even Scott admitted he “fucked up” on it …

WHY IT’S A PLEASURE:  Thing it, crazy mess as it is, I kind of love it – it is, in fact, one of my favourites amongst Scott’s work.  The film may take SIGNIFICANT liberties with the truth, but there’s no denying it perfectly captured the SPIRIT of one hell of a fascinating real life character, screenwriter Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) proving a pretty perfect fit because he’s as much of a fiercely independent rebel outsider as his subject.  It’s essentially Domino’s life story on speed, LSD and mescaline all rolled into one, a deliriously intoxicating ride, thrilling, seductive and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny as it bounces gleefully through Domino’s genuinely larger-than-life, Scott utilising every weapon in his extremely well-stocked filmmaking arsenal to make each scene pop, crackle and buzz and injecting true heart and emotional heft while he was at it.  He was aided enormously by a top-drawer cast of impressively heavyweight talent, from regular collaborators like Mickey Rourke (yet another step on his phenomenal return to form as one seriously grizzled, self-destructive mercenary badass), Christopher Walken and Lew Temple to (relative) newcomers like Edgar Ramirez (ferocious, unpredictable and INSANELY sexy), Delroy Lindo, Mo’Nique (Precious) and Jacqueline Bisset … but the film is, rightly, dominated by an incomparable turn from Keira Knightley as Domino herself.  She was already a major star thanks to the likes of Pirates of the Caribbean and Pride & Prejudice, but also in real danger of becoming typecast as a period drama heroine – this role changed all that, rightly showing us she was capable of SO MUCH more than just looking prettily winsome in a corset, perfectly channelling a deceptively slight former model who was, in fact, fully capable of reducing 300-pound muscular thugs to broken jail-fodder. This will probably ALWAYS be my favourite role she’s ever played.  Altogether then, this is a MUCH better film than it’s been made out to be – sure, it’s thoroughly mental, potentially headache-inducing and fundamentally flawed, but there’s no denying it’s also HUGE fun.  Heartbreakingly, Domino died a few months before its release, so she never got to see the finished film, but I think she would have liked it very much …

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Domino Harvey (7 August 1969 – 27 June 2005) was a British bounty hunter in the United States, notable within that field for being female and from a well-to-do background. Harvey's fame was increased posthumously by the 2005 release of the film Domino, which was loosely based on her life, in which Harvey was portrayed by Keira Knightley.

Bounty hunting

After completing a bail recovery agent training course, Harvey began working with the teacher of the course, Ed Martinez, at a bail bond agency in South Los Angeles run by Celes King III. As one of very few women working as bounty hunters in the United States, she primarily sought drug dealers and thieves, but occasionally tracked murderers. She enjoyed the work and Martinez later said she was one of the most skilled bounty hunters he knew. She primarily worked with two other bounty hunters when tracking fugitives. During their operations, she occasionally posed as a lost tourist.

Harvey collected swords and knives, and kept rifles in her apartment. As a bounty hunter in the mid-1990s, Harvey earned roughly $30,000–40,000 annually. The agency where Harvey worked was paid 10% of the bail posted by each fugitive they caught.She said she chose bounty hunting for the excitement of the work, even though it was not a high-paying job. She typically worked in Southern California, but on one occasion travelled across the United States to Atlanta, Georgia, to seek one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

Harvey lived above the garage of her mother's home in Beverly Hills, California.  After she began working as a bounty hunter, the Daily Mail published an article about her. Director Tony Scott read the article and contacted Harvey. They soon became friends and regularly visited each other; Scott spent time observing her while she tracked fugitives. Their friendship lasted for the rest of her life.”

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Domino Harvey (1969-2005): Model Turned Bounty Hunter

This is an old one, but I’m finding a lot of people don’t know about her -- Domino Harvey, who got her own Keira Knightley movie in 2005, was a real-life model-turned-firefighter-turned-bounty-hunter. She got into drugs and ended up in serious legal trouble before dying of a fentanyl overdose shortly before the movie debut.

She had a wild, complicated life that the movie didn’t cover in full. A New York Times article detailed one of the more glaring changes: an incident where she charged into a house thinking there was only one person in it, only to find a dozen gun-wielding gang members. It’s unclear how she got out of it in real life, but in the movie? She gave them lap dances.

Here’s that New York Times article, it goes into way more depth. She was a fascinating human.

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Keira Knightley (as Domino Harvey) From the biographical action flick, DOMINO (2005)

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Domino

Production2005 - Tony Scott

GenrePolicier, Action, Drame

Distribution : Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Édgar Ramírez, Lucy Liu, Mena Suvari

Résumé : Jeune mannequin célèbre issu d'une famille en vue, Domino Harvey décide de tout quitter pour devenir chasseuse de primes. Fuyant les défilés et les mondanités, elle se jette dans l'univers de la traque et du danger...

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Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey in Domino (2005)

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Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey in Domino (2005)

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Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey in Domino (2005)

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Keira Knightley (as Domino Harvey) From the biographical action flick, DOMINO (2005)

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Keira Knightley (as Domino Harvey) From the biographical action flick, DOMINO (2005)