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Speaking of which, the director, or the producer, is the core of the film
Devonte 2022-03-19 09:01:04
I didn't even notice that this is a movie released this year, and I watched it with my roommate today. I don't understand what this movie is about. Movies can be regarded as art. It comes from life and is higher than life. It is understandable that there are certain deviations. However, such deviations are generally more purposeful. When I go to the subway, I don't know what the director wants to say. Heroic protagonist? Sad villain? Negotiator? Can't be trusted, so can we praise the director's portrayal of real life? Not to the point. The basically unreasonable plot, in addition to stating that the Big Apple is an fxcking city, is really off-line. It creates suspense, but it has nothing to do with the main line. Do you want to go the literary film route? But sony/columbia giving you tony scott 100 million is definitely not what you want to play like this. The film earned 23 million at the box office in the first weekend, and then plummeted all the way, which is very in line with the classic routine of thunder, heavy rain and little rain, and super dazzling foreshadowing of bad movies. Bringing in denzel washington and john travolta won't turn things around either. These two brothers are performing at a high level, but without a good script and a good director, there is still no drama. But it seems that Denzel likes Tony very much. Since Man on Fire got on this pirate ship, he was reluctant to come down. Don't think obama has a black brother backed up to be president and you can do the same. It is still necessary to act in a good movie. No matter how good it is in a bad movie, it can only be said to be dedicated. If you want to touch the golden man again, it will be difficult.
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The Taking of Pelham 123 quotes
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Ryder: Do you know what I'm looking at? Do you know what I'm looking at?
Walter Garber: No, I do not.
Ryder: Ok, well first there's my gun... and at the end of my gun, what's your name man?
George: George, everyone calls me Geo.
Ryder: George, his friends call him Geo. He's got this kinda eighties skateboard thing going on... he makes it work, but it's not gonna look too good in his casket.
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Walter Garber: What's her name?
Ryder: Lavitca, she was Lithuanian... she was an ASS-model.
Walter Garber: She asked you what?
Ryder: You heard of hand-models, right? Advertisements?
Walter Garber: Right.
Ryder: She was an ass-model... she did jeans and uh you know, magazines and shit. Anyway, it was fashion week in New York and uh... I took her to Iceland.
Walter Garber: Lavitca, Lithuanian, Ass model, Iceland, you took her to the ice...
Ryder: So, for five-hundred bucks they'll take you on a dog-sled ride on a glacier.
Walter Garber: Dog-sled?
Ryder: Yeah... and you know that whole saying that if you're not the lead dog, the view never changes?
Walter Garber: Right, otherwise you're always looking at the asshole of the dog in front of you.
Ryder: That'll be funny in a minute when I get to that part.
Walter Garber: It's funny now.
Ryder: [next scene] And it's eight in the morning, we haven't been to bed yet... and we're tooling across this glacier and I got this hangover that's creeping up the back of my neck... and guess what I'm looking at?
Walter Garber: You're obviously you're staring at... the ass of the dog in front of you.
Ryder: You got it! So this dog... out of nowhere just lifts his hind-legs up and puts them in the, you know the harness there... and just takes a shit, while he's running on his front paws. So he's dumping and running, all at the same time... now that's multi-fucking-tasking if you ask me.
Walter Garber: Get outta here, did it hit you?
Ryder: Shit always hits you man.
[next scene]
Ryder: I didn't know it at the time, but it was profound.
Walter Garber: Profound?
Ryder: Yeah.
Walter Garber: Why? Uh, you lost me.
Ryder: Well, you know uh... when I went to prison later on, what you called. Uh, I had trouble going to the toilet... you know, a privacy thing. And I... couldn't take a shit. I was scared shitless... literally. So, you know what I thought of?
Walter Garber: You thought of the dog.
Ryder: That's right... I thought of that dog. If it could do what it needed to do... so could I. It saved my fucking live.
Walter Garber: Wow, that is profound.