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Dawn of the Dead (spoilers)
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The bigger picture (major spoilers)
If it continued....? (major spoilers)
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The 'real' Bill (spoilers)
Didn't know the Warren's...... (spoilers)
Almost Almost Famous?
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No idea who else was about, or how far they would get. Better to keep themselves in the room.
She knew too much, so Percival had to silence her.
The whole art of filmmaking is essentially a deception. There's a featurette on the Blu Ray about the creation of the scene. Charlize trained for the fights, and don't forget Lorraine was meant to be an experienced agent. Speed and technique can go a long way, if you know the right places to get someone. Half the thugs were just goons with guns.
They were all KGB, Stasi or European agents, who were aware of the 'kill or be killed' situations. It was necessary to show the realism of this.
The scene in Gascgoine's flat maybe overdid it, as they were (maybe?) ordinary police officers. But still there on Percival's tip-off.
He doesn't know what he wants, and gets more disillusioned as time passes. He sees his friend Kevin take a kicking, and then Steph blanks him too. Everything he wanted or believed in turns out to be fake.
https://www.bbfc.co.uk/education/case-studies/quadrophenia
Googled it and found this.
Ratings can get lowered when newer laws allow stronger violence and sex in films, but this still has so many uses of the C-word and authentic violence.
There was an edited cut shown on UK satellite a decade or so ago - TCM I think, with adverts. The scene where they get the fake blues and trash the Jag wasn't there. A few others too.
How do we think this will go? Set straight after, or ten years gone? Jay looking back into the origins?
Going into a film like this just for the (fake) sex? What were you expecting?
Saw a documentary yesterday called The Zodiac Myth, which questioned any connection between the four 'canon' murders, and how many letters were written by the same person. The more you read about the story, the less Graysmith seems relevant.
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