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An insight I had recently about the very last scene.
if you could produce an alternate version of this film with the same cast, director, production, etc, only with...
is it possible for a movie where the male lead is paid 20 times more than the female lead not to be misogynistic?
the guy who was cheated by his wife
am i the only one who thinks the actor who plays shelldrake deserved the oscar even more than the one who plays the doc?
how do they place the cameras?
what makes lotte give up on changing sex?
what's the robert zemeckis thing?
no deleted scenes?
i love Alan Cumming
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he'll favor putin as the good lap dog that he is
in a leftist-taliban-like direction, but true. he's stronger than ever
funny thing that all the tariffs he wants to impose is an essentially leftist idea. Government interference in the economy. I thought free market was the way, what happend?
i never really understood this thing about questadt being Roth's man. what's the implication of that?
1) the funny thing is that, according to IMDB, Danny Aiello ad libbed that line
2) That's subtle. Few minutes after that, we see Tom giving Rocco an order "get rid of the bodies" and then Rocco answers "where's Michael?", like he only answers to Michael and doesn't know yet who's the new boss. Tom then swiftly says "Rocco!". So this is, to some degree, that thing "in play" here. But most importantly, i think the film wants us to see that 1) Michael wants to use the eagerness of Tom to be seen as a brother. He knows that that will make Tom never betray the family, because it will hit his guts. (By the way that contrasts with what Michael says just earlier "all our men are business men, their loyalty is based on that") 2) Even though Tom is the don and we have to assume all the capos learn that at some point, we still see some hesitancy in them to follow Tom's commands. Rocco's example i just mentioned is just one. The other one is on the motel's room when he signals with his head for Al to leave the place, and Al takes quite a moment longer to actually do it. All that reinforces the idea that this Tom as a don thing is just a play by Michael.
It's funny that intentionally or not, the movie tries to show us that the most fit person to be don was Tom all along. Dude was balanced, wise, brave, loyal as fuck ("can't do that, Sally"). He just wasn't sicilian.
no. the share of his voters who are still minimally sane will jump off the boat with these convictions
didn't the defense participate in choosing the jurors? they had the power to dismiss candidates who they thought were biased
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didn't the defense participate in choosing the jurors? didn't they have the power to veto jurors based on background?
what's cc, by the way, that the doctors asks the nurse while treating Kay?
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