Does anyone think this has a Martin Scorsese feel, very dark and gritty. Just purchased this on dvd and it's still a great movie after all these years.
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@GGPan
I just saw half this flick--got to finish it---and your post had me cracking the hell up---thanks for the laugh! Anyone who's seen the film will understand why that's so damn funny!
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Marty put it on his top ten list of the 90's.I think at number 6.
shareThis could just as well have been "Mean Streets 2". Many of the songs are exactly the same as the ones in Mean Streets, the overall musical score is similar, Harvey Keitel has the lead role and gets shot in a car in the end, full frontal female nudity, and the main theme is financial debt to loan sharks.
I liked them both, this one better, and it is very clear that Ferrara has definetely watched Mean Streets several times and liked it :)
A couple of songs from Mean Streets do appear in the film. One scene has a very uncanny similarity to one in Mean Streets.
When Harvey is dancing nude with the stoned hookers, the song that is playing is also used in Mean Streets, in a scene where, strangely enough, Harvey is dancing with a stoned chick. Probably a little nod to Scorcese's film.
The scene in Mean Streets can be seen in the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MjbqrQSr3k&feature=related
It's more like an early, pre-Taxi Driver Scorsese film before he really came into his own. Martin Scorsese by 1992 could easily have done a superior job to Ferrara (though he would have had a lot more money to play with)
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Probably because of the New York setting.
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