William Collier Jr.

William Collier Jr.

  • Born: 1902-2-12
  • Height: 5' 10¾" (1.8 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Thomas 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      little caesar

      The 1930 gangster film Little Caesar. In the early days of sound films, recording equipment and cameras were both cumbersome, with little camera movement, only panning shots and a small amount of tracking (because there was a large box to hide the camera to cover its noise, and it was not easy to...

    • Clara 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      the director said

      The history of American gangster or crime films can be traced back to Griffith's time. His 1913 film "The Swordsman of the Poor Lane" is considered the first gangster film in American cinema. Later, Sternberg's "Underworld" can be said to be an earlier depiction of the gangster career that appeared...

    • Maeve 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      A dual carrier of evil and fantasy, a collection of violent individual desires, an incompetent example of individual will being incorporated into social orbits, a tragic wanderer between social forces and criminal groups. After the film's release, original author William Burnett sent a letter to the producers protesting its homosexual subtext. The different paths of the two partners become the classic mode of the robber film

    • Gloria 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      The gangster boss in the Hollywood genre movie gangster film began to walk in a trench coat nearly a hundred years ago. The little brother in "The Color of Heroes", Mike in "Once Upon a Time in America", and the big brother Sandino in "The Godfather" can be said to all It evolved from "Little Caesar". The little Caesar in the film has an almost basic relationship with Joe. It can be seen that the friendship between men is the most important content of gangster films from the beginning. In addition, this little Caesar is a bit like living in a city. The western hero in the space, the family as a social unit and the woman who symbolizes civilization are irreconcilable contradictions with him. Under the net of civilization and order, little Caesar, like the western hero, can only end in death, so the gangster film seems Establishing monuments and biography for the gangsters, but it is still a civilized discipline in essence (but the gangsters would rather die than give up their will to die, as if it is a praise to them for sticking to individualism and rejecting the domestication of the society) Because the time is relatively early, so the lines, performances, And the scene has a clear theater flavor

    Little Caesar quotes

    • Sgt. Tom Flaherty: I've been in this game many years and I put the cuffs on a lot of mugs. Someday, you and I are gonna take a ride, Rico, and when we do, I'll have the cuffs on you too.

      Caesar Enrico Bandello: No buzzard like you will ever put any cuffs on Rico!

    • Sgt. Tom Flaherty: I'm gonna get that swell-headed mug if it's the last thing I ever do.