Violent Aesthetics

Maxwell 2022-04-22 07:01:03

Nicolas Cage is very suitable to play this kind of character that is both good and evil, and even more charming when he is evil. The language of the camera lens fully expresses the aesthetics of violence. Nicolas Cage throws off his long trench coat and takes out two gorgeous pistols, which is still fresh in his memory after many years. John Woo has a distinct style, and he later found out that he made several action films that he thought were full of beauty. The flying pigeons, the hem of the clothes blown by the sea breeze, the gorgeous weapons, and, of course, slow motion. As a result, I always felt that shootout films should be gorgeous.

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  • Paige 2022-03-22 09:01:14

    7.0/10 points. 2019.06.04, rewatched after 23 years, Blu-ray. I watched it many years ago and I don't remember the plot at all. Looking back now, it feels logically that many places are not smooth. Simply put, it's just too pretending. . . At the beginning of the plane, I didn't take off early, where I was pretending to be crooked and crooked, and all kinds of flying and handsome in the fight were the connotations of the past Hong Kong gang gunfight movies. . . Can't stand the test of time, "True Lies" is obviously much stronger. . . John Travolta is 10 years older than Nicholas Cage. . .

  • Deven 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    Fortunately, 2B Wang Jiale reminded me to avoid it and did not dare to watch it. Otherwise, I would have to classify it as a horror movie. . Overall the story is pretty good. Cage is handsome in everything!

Face/Off quotes

  • Sean Archer: [over the phone with Victor] When we put this thing to bed, you can brand the fourth amendment on my butt.

  • [Troy and Archer see each other for the first time with each other's faces]

    Castor Troy: [grins] OOOEEEE, you're good lookin'! You're hot!

    [cocks his head]

    Castor Troy: It's like looking in a mirror, only not.

    Sean Archer: Troy?

    Castor Troy: Now that is between us. OK?

    Sean Archer: But you were, were, uh...

    Castor Troy: In a coma? Nothing like having your face cut off to disturb your sleep! Read the newspaper lately?

    [shows him a newspaper article headlined "Deadly Inferno at Walsh Institute"]

    Sean Archer: You killed them?

    Castor Troy: Yeah well, beats paying the bill, huh? I mean, come on, uh, if a face lift costs five grand...

    [shows Archer's wedding ring on his hand]

    Castor Troy: ... SEE ANYTHING YOU LIKE?

    [Cut to a shot of Miller, Dr. Walsh, and Tito, all bound and gagged, being doused with gasoline]

    Sean Archer: [feeling a lump forming in his throat] Tito!

    [In flashback, a hand drops a lit cigarette in a puddle of gasoline that quickly spreads towards the captives]

    Castor Troy: I torched all the evidence that proves you're you, okay? So, wow! Looks like you're going to be in here for THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS! Now, I have got to go. I've got a government job to abuse and a lonely wife to fuck! Whoops did I just say that? I'm sorry... make love to! God, I miss that face!

    Sean Archer: [throws his hands around Castor's neck and tries to strangle him] DIIIIIIE! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!