Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category
Travis Bickle psyches up
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Martin Scorsese gave Robert De Niro the opportunity to play a fantastic part as psychopath Travis Bickle in this dark urban thriller. In this scene, he’s psyching himself up and getting ready for his series of kills.
Father won’t give in to the Mafia
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True Romance (1993)
This clip is a long one but then again most scenes featuring Christopher Walken usually are. In this one he plays a Sicilian mafiosa, Vincenzo Coccotti, trying to extract information from retired police officer Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper) regarding the wherabouts of Worley’s Son, Clarence. Clarence screwed over the mafia by messing up a big cocaine deal and making off with the money and the drugs, but Worley simply won’t tell the mafia where his son is. Worley knows he won’t survive this situation anyway, so decides to make it quick for himself by extremely pissing Coccotti off with an interesting story about the history of Sicilians.
All these moments will be lost in time…
Blade Runner (1982)
The incredible moment of Roy Batty’s retribution, played wonderfully by Rutger Hauer. Just as you think he is about to finish off the battered and hanging Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), he saves the blade runner’s life and sits down to give a sublime and legendary farewell ode to life. The lines were completely unscripted, and probably weren’t supposed to make much sense, but the words always conjure up magical images for me, mixed with heartfelt pain at the truth of them.
Final scene of The Sopranos
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The Sopranos (1999-2007)
I reckon this is the best ending to any series ever. Excellent build up, excellent backing track, perfect filming. And what a great story it was. Thanks for the memories.
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