The spark created by masters of dark humor and stage play

Marion 2022-04-20 09:01:07

Good script, good director, good acting. Not surprisingly, this is likely to be the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay. A typical Martin McDonnell movie, a master of stage play, master of dark humor, and extremely controlling. The whole script is very good, full of tension everywhere, and not only the male protagonist, the female protagonist, the male supporting role, but all the performances are very good, definitely the best group play this year.

Discover the three characteristics of a director

1. The director likes to use dwarf actors very much. The dwarf in "The Killer Has No Holidays" impressed me a lot. I don't know if there is any special meaning to the dwarf, but it is a wonderful stroke in both films.

2. All the protagonists in the director have a natural sense of joy. Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in "The Killer Has No Holidays" (the Chinese translation is really ruining the film), and Cole in "Seven Neuropathies". Lin and Sam, Gleason in "Coast Guard", and Sam in this film, the director really likes actors with a sense of joy.

3. The protagonist in each movie has a certain racism, which is the case in the 4 movies mentioned above. Maybe this is what the director wants to convey, deep down, we are all racist.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri quotes

  • Mildred Hayes: [Upon discovering Denise got arrested] Rat bastards.

    [Mildred then enters the police station house]

    Mildred Hayes: Hey fuckhead!

    Dixon: What?

    Desk Sergeant: Don't say "what", Dixon, when she comes in calling you a fuckhead, and don't you come in here...

    Mildred Hayes: Shut up!

    Mildred Hayes: [to Dixon] You, get over here.

    Dixon: No! You, get over here.

    Mildred Hayes: Alright.

    Desk Sergeant: What? Don't, Dixon!

    Dixon: What? I'm...

    Desk Sergeant: You do not allow a member of the public to call you a fuckhead in the station house!

    Dixon: That's what I'm doing, I'm taking care of it in my own way, actually. Now get out of my ass! Mrs. Hayes, have a seat! What is it I can do for you today?

    Mildred Hayes: Where's Denise Watson?

    Dixon: Denise Watson's in the clank.

    Mildred Hayes: On what charge?

    Dixon: Possession.

    Mildred Hayes: Of what?

    Dixon: Two marijuana cigarettes. Big ones.

    Mildred Hayes: When's the bail hearing?

    Dixon: I asked the judge not to give her bail on account of her previous marijuana violations and the judge said sure.

    Mildred Hayes: You fucking prick!

    Dixon: You do not call an officer of the law a fucking prick in his own station-house, Mrs. Hayes. Or anywhere, actually.

    Mildred Hayes: What's with the new attitude, Dixon? Your momma been coaching ya?

    Dixon: No. My momma didn't do that.

    Dixon: [as Mildred leaves the police station house] Take 'em down, you hear me?

    Desk Sergeant: You did good, Dixon.

    Dixon: Yeah, I know I did.

  • Dixon: What the hell is this?... Hey, you. What the fuck is this?

    Jerome: What the fuck is what?

    Dixon: This! This

    [pointing at the billboard]

    Dixon: .

    Jerome: Advertising, I guess.

    Dixon: Advertising what?

    Jerome: Something obscure?

    Dixon: I'll say. Yeah.

    Jerome: Don't I know your face from some place?

    Dixon: I don't know, do you?

    Jerome: Yeah. Yeah, I do

    [spits on the ground]

    Jerome: .

    Dixon: I could arrest you right now...

    Jerome: For what?

    Dixon: For emptying your bucket... That's being bad against the environment laws.

    Jerome: Well, before you do that, Officer Dixon, how about you have a look at that first billboard over there? And then we can have ourself a conversation about the motherfucking environment... How about that?