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Best line the film? (and melodramatic music)

posted 14 years ago by shmucking
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I've seen this movie numerous times, and there's some great dialogue. My favorite line is...

"We put heroin in his soup!"

The guy who played the character who says that is classic. In another scene he says "I think I go with White Powder Ma..."

He says his lines very well.

Some of the music in the film is very melodramatic and makes the film rather corny.

Especially the scenes in the basement of the soybean factory, when the old man is talking about what goes on there and the scene in Thailand when Joey Thai is riding on horseback (or muleback, he looks so much bigger than whatever he's riding on).

In conclusion, I say to everyone reading this...

"I put heroin in his soup!"

[–] bstephens21 14 years ago

I actually have to kind of agree. David Mansfield's music for Heaven's Gate is one of the greatest film scores ever made; debacle or not, you'd think he would have gone on to a brilliant career scoring films. Yet, his music here is... well, schizophrenic. One moments it's a bunch Chinese wind instruments. The next it's a classic Hollywood score with soaring strings. Then, we suddenly have some cheesy 80s synth-heavy lite-jazz sophistopop (library music, I hope). Then you have questionable uses of Mahler. None of it really sticks in the mind the way the wonderful music from Heaven's Gate did.

His music for The Sicilian and The Desperate Hours is more memorable, if still a little too... airy, I guess. I really think he needs to be grounded with folk instruments, because whenever he tries a classical score, it just seems a little insubstantial. None of his others scores have really wowed me, even though I quite like his "horror" scores (Deep Crimson, Dark Harbor). I'm still hoping he'll knock another film score out of the park again; it's more likely than another Cimino film at this point.

[–] jporter-6 12 years ago

My favorite line is from little Red Hair. She's just been bounced off two taxi cabs are shooting a cop in the gut. Stanley White shoots her and says, "You're dying sweetheart."

Red Hair says, in a lower-octave voice, "Yeah? Don't be too sure."

I'm sure she died. She went out fighting.

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