About George Thompson
Location: Missouri
Occupation: Writer
Bio: Bio I was born in the small town of Ironton, Missouri in the mid-40s. My father was a minister and my mother was the devoted pastor’s wife. We moved when I was three to Kansas City where Dad pastored several churches, then moved to Fulton in 1960 where I graduated from Fulton High School in 1962. Dad was pastor at the Southside Baptist Church from 1960 through 1967. It was during those teenage years that I started writing poetry, articles, short stories and novels. Many poems were of a “grim” nature because I was usually either frustrated or felt depressed when I wrote them. Further in-depth study of myself helped me to see matters in a different, more enlightened way and gave me a much greater peace Bio of mind. That feeling came about when I realized that a Higher Power held control over my life and although I felt free here on earth to explore many things because God gave me the mind to make my own decisions based on the “terms” I had set for myself it was I who set the terms and levels of frustration and worry. Once I turned everything over to God, my writings became more positive and that feeling of emptiness I once had was lifted. My faith in God and the good intentions of mankind grows daily. I believe in the power of words, whether they are written, spoken or through the motions and spelling in sign language. They can be used to empower or defeat, accept or deny. My poetry is just one of many means of communicating. Retired now, I make my home in Ironton once again after being gone for sixty years. I write a poem every day, an article or two a week and have a continuing column at wickedwordsmith.com on the Web. My pleasures are writing, feeding birds and taking care of my new cat, Mandi.
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Fly away. Now!
I guess it’s aesthetically pleasing to show a robust man on the cover of the Gabriel DVD with his wings spread and carrying a revolver in one hand as he leaps off the ground and heads skyward. Granted there was a lot of jumping in the film, but nothing of that ilk.
Gabriel (Andy Whitfield) , the last archangel, is sent back to earth to clean up the mess created by the other fallen angels. He’s fast, strong, and ready for the job, although he has no idea what he’s in for until he gets to earth and finds his hands invisibly tied by Sammael (Dwaine Stevenson). Sammael has the riches, the guns, the girls, anything he wants to play the game of keeping people in line. He incarcerates people, kills others with the lift of an eyebrow, and still has time to throw back a few drinks before pursuing whatever else he wants to do with whomever he wants to do it. No one, absolutely no one, turns him down. That is, until Gabriel strolls in and looks the situation over.
Sammael can sense Gabriel’s presence on earth and fireworks take place. It becomes an eye for an eye once Sammael not only knows he’s present but why. The longer Gabriel stays on earth the more his powers diminish and he knows he is going to have to fight Sammael for good to triumph over evil. It’ll be the fight of his life but try he must for he was sent on a mission by someone more powerful than him and he must not fail.
The bonus features on the DVD include Deleted Scenes, Gabriel: Genesis (pre-production featurette), Gabriel: Battlefront (the challenges of shooting) and Gabriel: Evolution (visual effects).
I’m on a fence with this one. I liked the idea of a movie about an archangel coming back to earth to restore order, even on a low Indie budget. I’m not so joyful that the movie became a place for gun toting, sex and violence. That’s just me, however. After watching the special feature on the visual effects, I couldn’t imagine how some of them were going to be used in the filming until I watched the movie itself. They were well done. One of the best effect was Gabriel’s blue (and I mean blue) eyes turning brown when he became angry. Still, this one might be dusted more often than it’s watched.
