George P (quoting H McCoy) :
. I need no apologist or crusader to finally hold my
> lifeless body up to the world and shout for them to
come and observe what
> they have wrought. Do you know one of the first
things I'm going to do when
> I get some money? I'm going to have Cartier make me
a little solid gold
> thing for my wrist, you know, that identification
thing the army guys wear,
> on a solid gold chain and do you know what I'm going
to have inscribed on
> it? Just this: 'Use me not as a preachment in your
literature and your
> movies. This I have wrought, I and I
alone'."
>
> Brilliant.
>
You bet.I watched "Way of the Gun" on video last night.The
film ended with almost that exact same sentiment being
expressed by one of the protagonists, who also assumed some
narration duties.I really enjoyed the flick & I echo the
opinions expressed by those listmembers who made the positive
comments.I thought whoever it was expressed it nicely & I
have nothing to add.I've got to say that it's been one of the
few neo-noir/hb/tough crime type recently. I wasn't at all
impressed by "The Limey" & found "The Croupier" a little
too self-consciously
"arty" for my tastes."The Croupier" didn't live up to the
director's, IMO, artistic highpoint, "Get Carter" & I
thought that "The Limey" was a pallid, rather lifeless
attempt to do a version of "Get Carter" in America, starring
a very wooden Terence Stamp, which is the only sort of Stamp
I ever recall seeing.The only Soderbergh I 've enjoyed at all
was "The Underneath", a competent remake of a classic
film-noir, "Criss Cross", starring Burt Lancaster
& Yvonne (Mrs Munster) deCarlo (directed by Siodmak?). To
get it all back on topic, this film was based on a novel by
Don Tracy. Has anyone read this book or anything else by
Tracy? Somewhere I have a vintage era pb of one of his books
but I haven't read it, don't recall the title or remember if
it was a hb or crime-style book. Rene.
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