right before Tony would kill someone you would usually see an "X" usually made by light coming through somewhere...just wondering if anyone else knew why or saw it
Don't tease me about my hobbies, I don't you about being an a$$hole
Made some screenshots of all the X's here...
http://wp.me/pZwOu-vq
Think I got them all. I couldn't find one when Big Louis gets exxed at the start of the film, unless it's the kind of window-pane effect in the shadow. I don't think so though as it isn't as prominent as the other X's.
Love this film, and the little X flourish is one of the reasons why.
--
m00ch
Booze
shareIn Time mag's cover of the Osama Bin killing, they used a red x covering OBL's face on the cover, taken from the history of the new biz. Hitler and Mussolini got the Xs as well!
shareBefore I read that the 'X' symbolism was a reference to the newspapers use of the symbol when they covered stories on gangster's deaths, I thought that the 'X' meant that a character was marked for death. For example when Gaffney is moments from being assassinated, an 'X' marks his bowling score as if fate has marked Gaffney.
Another piece of symbolism I liked was in the film's final scene, when the camera pans from Tony's body to the sign "The World Is Yours". Throughout the film Tony saw this sign as a representation of an oppotunity for a greater life, but by the film's end the audience can view this sign as a moral lesson. To me "The World Is Yours" conveys the message that life is what you make it. Tony made his life revolve around a world of violence and immoral excess, which in the end cost Tony his life.
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".
My computer has x symbolism. When I want to exit a window I have to click on the red x on the right hand corner. When I do my page is gone as if killed.
sharehawks said that he had the idea of the xness(maybe ben hecht had it but who knows!) cause everytime he read on a newspapernews about some killing the article always had a picture on that stated "the x is where the corpse was found" and he wanted to symbolyze that dead was coming to getthem too ,they just ddn t know yet,teherefore the x near em all the time.
share