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Chick seems to be obsessed with human behavior. He is almost like the audience, observing and sizing up Norma and her family. Interestingly, they've established enough of a connection between Chick and Caleb/Dylan/Norma/Norman that he can definitely have enough material for his novel, just has to embellish here and there to flesh things out a bit. I like how they slowly insinuated Chick into the story with the Caleb-Dylan Season 3 subplot, then found a way for him to be involved with both Norma in Season 4, and now Norman in Season 5. And it works because now Chick has had the most significant interactions with the most important character, Norman, for his novel.
Monsieur Hire (1990)
Personally, I want her character to come and go, so that pretty much means death. I do not want to see Rihanna try to act out this classic character for more than 1 episode. Just get this circus sideshow casting out of the way so I can enjoy the rest of the series.
I'm not lying, if it means that there's going to be Barry-Iris until the end of the series, I'd honestly rather them just kill him off and then there would be NO reason for her to be on the show anymore. Wally-Jesse's romance is way more likable anyway. Wally could be the hero, still would have Joe as the Dad/moral support, and there would still be Team Flash with Caitlin, Cisco, and whatever version of Wells.
Interestingly, other than borrowing several key and memorable lines from the '79 film, I thought they did a decent job making this 2-hour Pilot kind of fresh and it's own thing. The promos made me think they would copy the movie verbatim but they twisted it enough. I wish they had left out all of the original dialogue, though because I cringed at the parts where the Wells and Ripper actors tried to re-create the magic of McDowell and Warner.
Generally, I know what you mean, a gravitas is missing from all 3 leads although I find them all engaging enough. But the '79 film was set in San Francisco, not New York. I kind of think that Jane is not quite mean to be like Amy from the '79 movie. I mean, they even gave her a different name. Interestingly, my favorite character from the Pilot was Vanessa.
What I loved about Cruise in this film is that he wasn't a traditional creepy movie sociopath. He was a sociopath that walked among us, much like Brian Cox's brilliant interpretation of Hannibal in the earlier Michael Mann film 'Manhunter'. No surprise that 2 of the best interpretations of serial killers/sociopaths in Vincent and Lecktor come from 2 Mann projects. I thought that was the whole point of Collateral. I'm not a fan of Hopkins' Lecter by the way. I don't see how someone who was so visibly and overtly creepy as him could even co-exist with other humans before being locked up. People should know what's wrong with this guy from jump. With a character like Vincent, he appears and acts very normally on the surface, but the killer is sublimely hidden underneath.
Regarding the film, coincidence is a huge part of the film's narrative, not just the typical throwaway summer action flick where the hero gets saved every step of the way by some ridiculous happening, but Mann slyly maps out the events of the film in a way that people could actually BELIEVE things could play out this way. The film has a convincing appeal about it.
Right, splitting them up should have developed their characters better, but I think they only succeeded with Travis and Chris, especially Travis. His subplot really turned a lot of fans around on liking his character, although I liked Travis from the start. Sorry, but the acting of Madison is not very good and I'm being kind. I thought that sob backstory she was feeding to Strand while they were at the bar drunk was very incredibly poor acting by Dickens. The writers keep drilling a hole into our heads that Nick is her favorite. I get it, she cares more for Nick than Alicia, don't need to be reminded of it every episode. I saw little to no development of her character throughout any of 2B. I like Travis' family way more than Madison's and wish Liza and Chris were still on the show and Madison and her brood were gone.
Yeah, Nick's hair is a mess! LOL It really does take me out of scenes at times, but really it's the actor's atrocious acting that takes me out of them more, but the hair doesn't help.
Arsenic and Old Lace and it isn't even close for me. Probably in my Top 5 all time comedies.
I think for a split second early on I thought the daughter was in on it, but quickly went out of my head the rest of the way, so when the big reveal/twist happened I was genuinely shocked.
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