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	Elektra (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Elektra was born in the clinic floor, painted red from the blood of her mother.
		Elektra grew up close to her father but was plagued by dark visions and voices with no known source.
		Elektra was fatally stabbed by Bullseye with one of her own sais in a battle over which of them would be the Kingpin's assassin (in Daredevil #181).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elektra_(comics) (2199 words)

	Elektra (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Plot Outline: Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
		Bowman gives "Elektra" a uniquely moody, earthy, shadowy feel, which helps to swallow the often bizarre supernatural elements of the story (one member of The Hand is covered with tattoos that come alive and kill), and amps the action sequences by presenting them in unusual places and in unusual ways.
		"Elektra" is more of a physical workout for Garner than an acting exercise, but the character fits with the actress's tightly honed sense of silent fury, and she survives the insanity that often surrounds her.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0357277 (972 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Elektra Review
		Elektra has become an assassin for hire (presumably she only dispatches bad people).
		Elektra is haunted by flashbacks and nightmares of her childhood in the Natchios mansion, of her mother's murder by what she recalls as a satanic silhouette, and of her father's relentless driving her to achieve.
		Of interest is the first sequence, in which we get more of a glimpse of Elektra's previous death without the slightest clarification of the plot's rationale, and the third, a prolonged scene in which Stick takes Elektra to task for her brutality.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/elektra.html (1464 words)

	The Elektra Story
		Theodore Bikel became the mainstay of Elektra from 1956 to 1961, eventually because of his importance to the founding of Elektra, Holzman sold Bikel a 5% share of Elektra for $20,000 which returned a half million to Bikel when Elektra was sold.
		Elektra had never had a successful single, but Holzman finally agreed, and the $10,000 was paid to the group.
		Elektra continues today as part of Time-Warner Communications and is still very successful releasing records by such different artists as Metallica, Third Eye Blind, or rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard, as well as distributing independent English-founded labels as Mute (Depeche Mode) or Fiction (the Cure).
	www.bsnpubs.com /elektra/elektrastory.html (3455 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - ELEKTRA
		Elektra realizes what this means and that night goes over to the Miller house just in time to take out their would be killers, who happen to disappear in a puff of green light and smoke when they die (pretty cool, actually).
		Elektra follows the sounds of fighting and sees that Stick is instructing Abby how to fight, telling her to anticipate her enemy's position rather than waste time looking for him.
		Elektra sits on the bed so Abby can reach her and is told by Abby, "You saved my life." Elektra smiles and replies in a barely-holding-back-tears voice, "You saved my life." She kisses Abby, gets up, and turns to Mark.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/elektra.html (2357 words)

	Elektra
		Elektra is kind of a martial-arts wonder woman who kills people for hire.
		She is assigned to eliminate the darkly handsome Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic with a permanent three-day stubble) and his adolescent daughter Abby.
		The scene is staged with Elektra wearing what looks like a red genie outfit as white sheets dance around the pair.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0114elektra14.html (422 words)

	Elektra Libretto
		Elektra Wenn das rechte Blutopfer unter'm Beile fällt, dann träumst du nicht länger.
		Elektra zu Boden stierend, wie abwesend: Ja, ja, ein Fremder.
		Elektra indem sie ihn, wie in einem unheimlichen Tanz, umkreist, sich plötzlich tief bückend: Hier!
	rick.stanford.edu /opera/Strauss/Elektra/libretto.html (5069 words)

	ELEKTRA
		The plot is filled with shadowy, incestuous innuendos: Elektra's love for her father, a semi-lesbian attitude towards her sister, and sibling love for Orest—the latter suggested by Strauss's erotic music for the Recognition Scene, when Elektra encounters her long-lost brother.
		A cursory look at the score shows Elektra sings eight B-flats and four high Cs; she is on stage for most of the time during the duration of the opera (Solti's uncut version takes 108 minutes; standard cuts bring performance time to about ten minutes less).
		The final notes sung by Elektra as she dances herself to death, are to the text "Wer glücklich ist wie wir, dem ziemt nur eins: schweigen und tanzen!" ("There is only one thing fitting for those happy as we: to be silent and dance!").
	classicalcdreview.com /elektra.htm (5838 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Elektra at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Elektra is a spin-off of the Daredevil movie and is from Stan Lee, the man behind Spiderman, the X-Men, and many other famous comic book heroes.
		Jennifer Garner stars as Elektra, an assassin with a really messed up childhood who was kicked out of a dojo for being to prone to violence and not truly understanding the sensei's teaching.
		Elektra is a very short movie (90 minutes) and makes for a nice diversion on a Saturday afternoon.
	www.epinions.com /content_169824718468 (600 words)

	Elektra. Movie Review @ Hollywood.com - The best online source for movie reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		What there is of it goes like this: Elektra (Garner) is an assassin, plagued by personal doubt --you know, that breed of film characters with whom we can all readily identify.
		Instead of dispatching them immediately, Elektra finds herself drawn in by the warm-hearted Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and the spunky Abby (Kirsten Prout)--so much so that when it comes time to off them by bow and arrow some time later, she can't bring herself to let loose the arrow.
		Elektra hurries her charges through underground tunnels and through the woods, in seriously vain attempts to elude their captors, who, despite the best magical help hired villains can buy, struggle mightily to catch up.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/2432469 (945 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Elektra
		Marvel Comics' Elektra was a late example of the former and an early example of the latter.
		Elektra was first seen in Marvel's Daredevil #168 (January, 1981), as one of an endless series of monthly menaces, but with a twist — this particular hired assassin was an old girlfriend of his, and he was as surprised as the readers to see her doing that sort of work.
		Elektra and her back-story were created by cartoonist Frank Miller (no relation to the Frank Miller who created Barney Baxter in the Air), who was then just starting to make his reputation in comics.
	www.toonopedia.com /elektra.htm (597 words)

	MovieJuice!: Elektra - Carvin' Elektra
		Elektra cleans her apartment lair, scrubbing the floor to remove all traces of her DNA.
		Elektra's heart is pure and her complexion is pure Revlon.
		Elektra polishes her knives in readiness for the climactic battle where good faces evil and ruby-red lingerie faces the most malevolent self-propelled bedding ever seen in a major motion picture.
	www.moviejuice.com /2005/elektra.htm (739 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Elektra [2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Elektra (Jennifer Garner) has returned to her life as a hired assassin, but she balks at an assignment to kill a single father (Goran Visnjic, ER) and his teenage daughter (Kirsten Prout).
		With "Elektra" the source material is a bit off-key and theres not nearly enough time to do the movie in, but it all still gels together quite nicely thanks to another saving grace performance by Garner and some beautiful cinematography.
		Elektras faults lie with a script that varies greatly in quality and pace; either way, most of the actors seem to be able to deliver some cliches without hamming them up, notably strong is teenage actress Kristin Prout.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007RUSOE (1261 words)

	RPGnet: Review of Elektra
		Elektra and Stick's main enemy is the 'Hand', a group of ninja assassins who turn into puffs of green smoke when they die.
		Anyway, it turns out that Elektra is supposed to kill them, but she can't bring herself to do it, and ends up protecting the father and daughter from ninja assassins instead.
		Anyway, Elektra fights the posse of baddies, flashbacks until reaches the source of her existential crisis, gains more wisdom from Master Stick and bonds with the father and daughter (who have a secret!).
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/10/10988.phtml (669 words)

	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		Though Elektra was his most powerful student, she was too acquainted with violence.
		Elektra makes the fateful decision to take Abby and Mark with her, on the run.
		Elektra's almost operatically tragic background is filled in through flashbacks, and brief exchanges between Garner's Elektra and Stamp's inscrutable Stick sketch out the dimensions of her moral dilemma.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue404/screen.html (602 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Elektra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Elektra is careful to treat each assignment as just another job, providing a service she can perform better than anyone else.
		When Elektra is hired by an unknown client to eliminate an attractive, friendly widower and his young daughter, she finds that things aren't so simple any more.
		Soon Elektra is single-handedly engaged in an all-out war with the powerful criminal organization known as The Hand for the lives of the man and the child - but the ultimate struggle may be for Elektra's soul...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1416505059 (317 words)

	Words & Pictures Exhibit - Elektra: Assassin
		Elektra was introduced to comics by Frank Miller while working on the popular Marvel superhero comic book Daredevil.
		While Greek mythology provides the origins of Elektra, her story has been used as a basis for works in many forums.
		The daughter of a Greek ambassador, Elektra is the beloved of Matt Murdock.
	www.wordsandpictures.org /elektra/maingallery.html (399 words)

	ELEKTRA - PREVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Anyway, Elektra (the name of the Garner character) hits U.S. cinemas early 2005 and is directed by Rob Bowman (of the X-Files movie and Reign of Fire fame).
		Incidentally it also stars British actor Terence Stamp, who must be used to this sort of thing because he played the superpower villain General Zod in Superman II way back when.
		Elektra's latest job forces her to make a decision that can take her life in a whole new direction or destroy her.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /art_elektra.html (381 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Elektra: Assassin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Elektra is NOT a "super hero" and the movie does not try to portray her as one.
		Sure it was courageous to take Elektra totally out of Daredevil's world and establish her as the baddest assassin on the block, especially in a no-holds barred mature reader format.
		When Garrett is sitting at his computer researching Elektra's history and suddenly realizes she may be in the room...man, I have never seen anything like that simple sequence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871353091?v=glance (2322 words)

	Elektra - Finnish scientific publications in electronic form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Elektra collects, publishes and archives the articles of the leading Finnish scientific journals in electronic form.
		The Elektra material can be found via the Finnish national Arto article database.
		At the moment the Elektra material consists of more than 10000 full-text articles (mostly in pdf format) from circa 30 scientific journals.
	www.lib.helsinki.fi /elektra/english.html (151 words)

	Marvel Directory
		History: Elektra once defined herself by the men in her life: She was the daughter of a powerful Greek diplomat and the girlfriend of blind American law student Matt Murdock.
		She is a mistress of the skills of the ancient ninja of Japan, and an Olympic-level athlete and gymnast.
		Elektra wields a pair of three-pronged daggers called sais, though she also is proficient with, and makes use of, a multitude of martial-arts weaponry.
	www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/e/electra.htm (492 words)

	Elektra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Elektra's master, Stick, is a stalwart ambassador of good known as The Way, and he trains a small cadre of elite fighters who resist The Hand's evil plans.
		Elektra's first victim is a security guard whom she tosses from a roof.
		Elektra skewers a ninja by stabbing him through the roof, takes out another with a large dart, then pins a third to the wall with her sword.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0002026.cfm (1518 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Elektra
		Elektra, you may recall, first appeared on screen in "Daredevil" (2003), the Marvel saga starring Ben Affleck as a blind superhero.
		Jennifer Garner, she of the wonderful lips, returns in the role as a killer for hire, which seems kind of sad, considering that in the earlier movie she figured in the beautiful scene where he imagines her face by listening to raindrops falling on it.
		There's one showdown between Elektra and the head killer of The Hand that involves a lot of white sheets, but all they do is flap around; we're expecting maybe an elegant Zhang Yimou sequence, and it's more like they're fighting with the laundry.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/REVIEWS/41228005/1023 (830 words)

	'Elektra': No Live Wire (washingtonpost.com)
		I'm also talking about critical plot points, such as how exactly Elektra was resurrected from the dead after suffering seemingly mortal wounds at the end of "Daredevil," the 2003 movie based on the comic book series that first introduced her character.
		Then again, Elektra is shown in flashback lying on a slab as her blind-yet-all-seeing mentor, known as the Stick (Terence Stamp), rests his healing hand on her lifeless-yet-sexy belly.
		Employees of a coalition of underworld types known as the Hand, who pursue Elektra when she becomes Mark and Abby's protector (for reasons that must remain murky in order to avoid spoiling the movie's one interesting twist), include Typhoid (Natassia Malthe), a human vector of contagion who brings, quite literally, the kiss of death.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A6523-2005Jan13.html (519 words)

	TheFourthRail.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It is the college life aspects of this story that really grabbed me. While Elektra's martial arts expertise is foreshadowed here, it's in the background for her first few months at college.
		Elektra's look when she first meets Matt Murdock speaks volumes, and the same is true of the sly smile that Matt shoots her then and on their second meeting.
		The anger of Calvin at Elektra's taunts is clear in his face, foreshadowing the inevitable strike back at her.
	www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/snapjudgments/110402/ultimatedaredevilelektra1.shtml (543 words)

	Elektra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		While Jennifer Garner's Elektra Natchios was responsible for lending what little spark 2003's "Daredevil" had, her own vehicle is a ponderously inert, disjointed drag that's anything but live action.
		Seeing a lot of her young self in Abby, Elektra takes on the Hand while reflecting on the traumatic childhood events that made her the lone-wolf, conflicted, cynical heroine without any tangible superhuman powers that she is today.
		As she briefly demonstrated in "Daredevil," Garner was up for much more than wearing a permanent scowl and offing the occasional bad guy with one of her lethal blades.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000753179 (555 words)

	village voice > film > Elektra by Benjamin Strong
		When contract assassin Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner) arrives to fillet a target with her trusty sais, it turns out her prey has been expecting her.
		But besides techno-goth fashion, Alias is about a vexed father-daughter relationship, not unlike the one Elektra had with papa Natchios, who was slain in 2003's dismal Daredevil, but who appears here (different actor) in flashbacks to our anti-heroine's manse youth.
		Garner's Elektra is what vulnerable Syd might look like if she went rogue—a remote, ascetic killer.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0503,strong,60105,20.html (258 words)

	New York Post Online Edition: movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Now a glowering, moody contract killer with heightened senses and a skimpy red suit, Elektra has been dispatched to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest by parties unknown to execute what she euphemizes as "payroll reduction" on Mark (Goran Visnjic of "ER") and his 13-year-old daughter Abby (the charmless Kirsten Prout).
		That "Elektra" was produced on less than half the budget of "Daredevil" is painfully obvious from the long stretches without any action whatsoever and lots of incoherent babbling about The Hand's search for The Treasure.
		"Elektra, like the tragedy," remarks Mark, who becomes involved in an unconvincing romance with the icy Elektra even as she becomes unconvincingly maternal with his daughter.
	www.nypost.com /movies/38144.htm (394 words)

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		Elektra is left alone to face her hated
		Elektra springs at her, crying that it is she herself who must die.
		Elektra's mood and frenzy relaxes into tenderness and lyricism.
	www.richard-strauss.com /elektra.html (691 words)

	Elektra
		A Garner, el rol de Elektra le viene como anillo al dedo después de verla como Sydney Bristow, agente de la CIA en la serie televisiva Alias.
		Siguiendo los acontecimientos de Daredevil, Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), asesina a sueldo, enfundada en su traje de cuero rojo y experta en el manejo de los Sai (especie de dagas orientales creadas originalmente para defenderse de espadas), es revivida por la Orden de la Mano, un grupo de asesinos que le ayudaron a entrenarse.
		Cabe recalcar que Elektra es uno de los personajes más exitosos salidos de la pluma de Frank Miller, quien en el mismo 2005 verá dos de sus productos en la pantalla grande (Sin City es el otro).
	www.cinenganos.com /peliculas_Elektra.html (374 words)

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