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Blue Velvet 1986
Rewatched this a million times, just wanted to add that I love the quiet complexity Hopper brings to Booth… he’s on his face, a very one-note character, a violent rapist killer planted in this Hardy Boys world - but there’s something about the way Hopper delivers certain lines that just really “sell” it.
I’m thinking in particular of the way he sounds like he’s tearing up when he tells Jeffery not to be a good neighbor to her, and his…
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Miller's Crossing 1990
Really, really good noir flick focused on a double crossing Irish mobster, attempting to work angles during a conflict between Irish and Italian factions. Like all Coen works, atmospheric as hell, with the well-crafted dialogue they’re known for.
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High Noon 1952
A man searches for community in the town he devoted himself to protect, and finds absolutely none. Very interesting to read as a statement on the screenwriter declining to testify to the House Un American Activities Committee, and learning all his supposed likeminded friends did. In this movie, any belief in the greater good or any goals beyond the immediate are looked at with scorn. It’s an extremely cynical Western, with a tone more in line with a Clint Eastwood joint than anything contemporary. (High Plains Drifter can be easily read as response to this film.)
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