"Midnight Express" is a cruel movie whose influence has hardly diminished in decades since its controversial release in the late 1970s. Even in the 1920s, the film is still a divisive and powerful film. The film opens with a series of wonderful and continuous tension scenes. At that time, the unknown actor Brad Davis portrayed the role of Billy with firm physical convictions, especially the unfair descriptions of Turkey, its judicial system and its people. Li’s perspective
. The film successfully turned the prison into a complete, real, and comprehensive world, forming a microcosm of human behavior. The art director of the film is especially good at reshaping such a world, a hellish scene, just like a scene in a lunatic asylum, where prisoners always circle a stone pillar to create a fascinating sense of horror
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2021-12-11 08:01
Extended Reading
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Winona 2022-04-21 09:02:07
An atypical prison break movie, combined with the situation of Nixon's administration at that time, criticized the detention of petty American criminals by the Turkish authorities. I didn't expect the script to come from Oliver Stone. Generally, the second half of the old American prison break films is the prison break process. The department is full of prison asuras. The escape section only takes up less than 10 minutes of the main film. It is extremely oppressive and depressing. It cannot be completely determined whether it has vilified Turkey. Prison will change a person, and political torture will make people lose hope, but look at it. Going to his girlfriend's tits...will rekindle hope? Aaron Parker is the most interesting at the moment, but thanks to Stone's script, the male protagonist wearing sunglasses really looks like Brad Pitt of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
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Brown 2021-12-11 08:01:11
Screenplay by OliverStone, American in Turkish prison, victim of Nixon's diplomacy and temporary tensions in US-Turkish relations. The Turks were portrayed as abominable. The four-year sentence was once changed to 30 years. The fight scenes, the masturbation scenes with his girlfriend visiting prison, and the hysterical performances of BradDavis are all impressive. At the end of the escape, the process of being born is dramatic, and the continuous freeze-frame pictures and the desolate theme music sublimate the mood. That same-sex scene is quite weird
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[first lines]
[Susan makes her way through a line at an airline checkpoint]
Susan: Excuse me... Excuse me... Excuse me... Excuse me.
[she reaches Billy in line]
Susan: Nervous?
Billy Hayes: No.
Susan: Geez, I hate flying.
Billy Hayes: It's something I ate. I think I've been poisoned.
Susan: Or you're just excited about getting home.
Billy Hayes: No, I think it's the baklavas.
Susan: I told you not to eat 'em.
Billy Hayes: Look, I gotta go to the john again. You go on through and I'll catch up to you, OK?
Susan: So I'll wait.
Billy Hayes: No, go. I'll... I'll catch up to you. I'll... I'll only be a minute. OK? OK?
Susan: OK.
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Mr. Hayes: All right, Billy. I know it sounds tough, but - we are going to get you out! I promise you. I don't want you to get stupid and pull anything. They can play with your sentence. All right. Now, I'm putting 500 dollars in the bank. Anything you need, you write. There's food here. There's candy. And there's writing paper. Books. Cigarettes. Soap. Toothbrush.
[Empties bag onto table, slams it down]
Mr. Hayes: I've been writing insurance policies for 30 goddamn years and now I've got to see my own son - Jesus. Jesus! Billy, if I could be where you are... I'd be there.
Billy Hayes: I love you, Dad.
[Guards take him away]
Mr. Hayes: [to Hamidou] You take good care of my boy, you hear? Or I'll have your fuckin' head, you Turkish bastard!