"Subway Robbery": a large piece of skin, ironic

Morgan 2021-11-12 08:01:15

Movies with classic robbery themes mostly follow the route of "a fight between the pros and the cons within a limited time", relying on the suffocating tense rhythm created by the film and the intelligent bridge that is both unexpected and reasonable to attract the audience. For the audience, the theme is mostly to punish the evil and promote the good.

But "Metro Robbery" is an atypical robbery movie. Those tense atmospheres and hot scenes are superficial phenomena, which can be attributed to the necessary elements for its commercial blockbuster route. The names of Tony Scott, Denzel Washington and John Travolta attracted US$100 million in investment; the investment of US$100 million resulted in the film being presented to the audience as a blockbuster. , Because no producer is willing to spend 100 million US dollars on Tony; the posture of a commercial blockbuster must include tense plots and hot scenes, so there are almost those "killing chickens with a sledgehammer" crash scene Support the appearance, otherwise it will not be called a blockbuster; the most terrible thing is that Tony Scott has played a small temper this time, and has to satirize the corrupt New York government in this kind of commercial film, if it is not like Tony Scott BUG-level directors come to make this film, and the producers will never agree with the birth of this "new" type of film.

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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.

  • Ryder: Ok... now somebody else has to die. Two people, maybe all of us! Did you hear me?

    Walter Garber: I heard you, but you gotta understand that the circumstances they're different now for you. You gotta rethink this, you... you gotta adapt.

    Ryder: No, I gave you instructions and you know the consequences.

    Walter Garber: I mean don't you have a plan B?

    Ryder: No, plan B is enforcing plan A... and the minute you stop believing me mother fucker, that's it!