Juri writes,
In "The Asphalt Jungle" someone says something to this
> effect: "Criminality is just a left-handed form of
human activity." (Is
> this in Burnett's book already or is it just in the
film? I ca't
> remember.)
>
> And to take a step further, in Jean-Pierre
Melville's marvellous
> gangster films, the criminals are nothing more than
guys doing their
> work. This echoes back in Tarantino's "Reservoir
Dogs" and Takeshi
> Kitano's "Sonatine" - they don't talk about getting
the long-life
> holiday after the Big Caper.
From a certain perspective, I suppose, they're like other
folks that like what they do. They don't like the idea of
retirement. They want to come back to the job (do another
job), for the satisfaction of doing it well, even if they
don't need the money. In some cases, keeping your hand in may
even have a bit of the Puritan work ethic, or the idea of
using your God(?)-given talents....
Ah, but at my back I hear Travis McGee hurrying near
(again).
Bill H
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