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Beautiful

posted 21 years ago by jackmac86
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The first half hour of this movie is incredibly beautiful.

"I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals." - Butch Cassidy

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[–] ChrisL138 21 years ago

I don't think anyone needs to be reminded of that.
But the man could put a hell of a film together.
I read a while ago that he was famous for turning out high-quality productions
on shoe-string budgets. Can anyone elaborate this point?
This is great, great flic, but The Samurai, in my opinion, is flawless.

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[–] webuiltthiscityonrockand 19 years ago

I thought the whole movie was beautiful, i loved just watching the theft scene.
And I loved how there was barely any dialogue.

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[–] Stoi1 19 years ago

The whole movie is a masterpiece.

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[–] bowlofsoul23 19 years ago

The first half hour IS beautiful, with the panning shots of the train, and the seamless segue from the suspect (forgot his name) on the train to Delon lying down in prison. It creates a wonderful juxtaposition.
I love the silence on the train (although no real train is that calm or quiet) when the suspect is opening up his handcuffs, and how the action is so sudden yet so not over-done like it is in action films today when he jumps out of the train.
Then the scene with the policemen spreading out over the field. Great.
Or the way Delon leans in towards the bedroom door when he gets out of jail, as if he's caught a whiff of his former lover. His look when he tosses the pics of the woman in the safe. Mon dieu!!

How can it not be beautiful?

"It's funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious..."

[–] Narrator_Jack_dot_com 18 years ago

Starting the movie by quoting that passage is really the best way a crime movie (or one with a lot of negativity) CAN start.

Samourai didn't have as much visually going for it as this does. Maybe Delon was too cocky too.

[–] pipeoxide 18 years ago

My thoughts exactly. I adore this movie, but the beginning, pre-Yves Montand stages are far better than the latter/heist sections.
The best scene in the entire film has to be the field sequence with Delon & Volonte, symbolically merging their fates over a pack of smokes. The close-ups, the music, the entire atmosphere is stunning.

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[–] fiftyfootqueenie 17 years ago

Beautifully shot, no question.

The slow pacing and weirdly muted colours added to the whole sense of fatality that pervaded it all. There's a certain claustrophobia and existential isolation too - the world at large rarely intrudes into or has any effect on the actions or existences of the characters. The girls in the nightclub might as well be robots, and there's barely a line of dialogue exchanged with a passing character - a waiter, a barmaid, etc - in the whole film.

The silence during the heist scene increased the tension no end, in my humble op. (Spoiled only sligtly by the clumsy inclusion of the nightwatch man suddenly realising there's a reachable alarm button above his bunk right after the shop has been stripped of its glittery booty. Perhaps it was his first night on the job, on loan from the Louvre - who knows?)