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Hi Hyla! Good to see you back around!
In the brilliant film, Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino turns in, IMHO, one of the greatest screen performances ever, and hooah! is the pet expression of his surly blind character, Lt. Com. Frank Slade. I was never sure how to spell it, though...thought I "saw" a "w" in front of it.
In fact, I'd tell any aspiring actor to go and watch Scent of a Woman four or five times, and if Pacino's performance doesn't do anything for you, then do something else. 'Cause that's acting!
The way he inflects hooah! in the film (and it varies, of course, in nuance from scene to scene) is something akin to a mix of a cynical hurrah! and touché.
But rent the movie and see what you think...it's worth watching anyway, even if you've seen it before.
Here's some stills from the flick:
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/foxybrown/515/scentofawoman.html
[excited edit!!]: Hyla! I found a site for the film with an audio sound bite of Whoooah, spelt with the "w" and an extra "o"! Here:
http://www.geocities.com/aaronbcaldwell/Scent.html
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Hooah knows? Hyla 04/01/02 08:48 PM Re: Hooah knows? WhitmanO'Neill 04/01/02 09:35 PM Re: Hooah knows? tsuwm 04/01/02 10:02 PM Re: Hooah knows? TheFallibleFiend 04/01/02 10:22 PM Re: Hooah knows? milum 04/01/02 11:44 PM Re: Hooah knows? hev 04/02/02 02:10 AM Re: Hooah knows? Bobyoungbalt 04/02/02 02:59 AM Re: Hooah knows? doc_comfort 04/02/02 03:05 AM Re: Hooah knows? wow 04/02/02 09:27 PM Re: Hooah knows? Jackie 04/02/02 11:59 PM Re: Hooah knows? stales 04/03/02 03:25 PM Re: Hooah knows? Alex Williams 04/03/02 04:00 PM Re: Hooah knows? hev 04/03/02 10:20 PM
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