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LUDIC LOG

06.03.2003

Leonard is a player on a sports team. Although it seems unlikely with his ragtag band of misfits, they make it to the big game. At a crucial moment he blows a big play.

Leonard dresses as a woman to gain the trust of a girl he wants to go out with. No one is fooled.

Leonard heads down to Tijuana for a crazy spring break party. He spends most of the time in his hotel room reading. His roommates noisily fuck strangers in the bathroom.

An epic space battle is taking place. Leonard portrays a supply room clerk who steals personal items.

Leonard becomes involved in the world of organized crime. He starts out as a driver, and fails to receive a promotion because he talks too much.

Leonard and a friend talk late into the night about semiology.

Leonard responds to the stultifying nature of his 9-to-5 office job with a series of witty asides, wisecracks and wry irony, none of which is understood by his co-workers.

Leonard overcomes a brutal working-class childhood but fails anyway.

Leonard embarks on a quest for revenge against the man who killed his family. Eventually he gets bored and calls it off.

Leonard, as a sharklike defense attorney, dazzles the jury and almost gets his innocent client off, until it is revealed in the climactic final reel that he dropped out of high school and does not have a license to practice law. His client gets life.

Leonard's iconoclastic rock band faces a number of travails, not the least of which is that no one will give them a record contract because they are terrible. However, they prevail in the end, at least in the sense of not dying.

Leonard's car is towed. He makes a fatuous comment about it.

Leonard stars as a porn actor whose thirty-three-inch member is so grotesquely oversized that no one will work with him.

Leonard portrays an innovative doctor and medical researcher whose studies save lives; however, since he is a urologist, he is not considered worth making a movie about.

In a delightful pairing with Janeane Garofalo, Leonard plays a man so sarcastic and unattractive that he is cast as the best friend to her lead.

Leonard plays a game of "King of the Mountain" with some foul-mouthed dwarves.

Leonard stars as a scrappy boxer who makes it to the championship and loses.

Leonard stars as a scrappy boxer who makes it to the championship and loses again.

Leonard stars as a scrappy boxer who is soundly thrashed by a younger, hungrier fighter in spite of never having won the championship.

Leonard stars as a scrappy boxer who has never won a championship and is reduced to fighting Swedish weightlifters gopped up on steroids.

Leonard stars as a no longer scrappy boxer who gets beaten up in bars because he lies about having once been a championship fighter.

Leonard is a rugged, rebellious action hero who cockily defeats all his enemies until he runs into someone tougher and more skilled than he is six minutes into the film.

Leonard stars as a Viet Nam veteran who, traumatized by his wartime experiences, decends into a nightmarish spiral of drugs, alcohol and kinky sex in a desperate attempt to forget that he did not actually serve in the Viet Nam war at all.

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