I wondered about how the idea for using the Poor Cow clips
came about. No one has said that The Limey is a sequel to
that film, but the character names are the same, and they are
both thieves. Did the screenwriter plan it this way, or was
it coincidental and lucky, or did they just adjust the
original screenplay to fit the idea?
It's a cool movie. Visually interesting. Makes Hollywood crap
look like hack work. And what a great story, a great noir
villain (Fonda plays the guy's fear excellently), and I like
that it mixes memory, current time, and wishes without being
so heavy handed. Steve S believes the audience is smart
enough to figure it out. Good for him.
NS
----- Original Message ----- From: John & Carrie <
johncarrie@sprynet.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000
11:10 AM Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: The Limey
> AN sed:
>
>
> > I thought the Limey was excellent, and the
whole time I'm thinking ,ore
> > people should be writing stuff like this in the
crime field. A
> > small story,
> > character driven, fractured-telling, quirky.
Yep, I agree with
> > you. Great
> > film.
>
> One of the things that I found very cool in this
movie was the use of
> footage from one of Terrence Stamp's early films for
flashbacks about his
> earlier life. I'm sort of surprised that it isn't
done more often, with
so
> many actors having a backlog of past films to draw
upon.
>
> And this always raises interesting issues about
filsm as texts and their
> permanence (or impermanence) and how a clever
director like Soderburgh can
> do this photo-montage thing and change entirely
their initial "meaning."
>
> Tribe
>
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