if it didn't have Scott's name and Gladiator brand on it, literally nobody would even notice this. You'd hear about it in five years at a party, your friend saying "what was that one movie with Pascal and Mescal?"
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The Mauritanian 2021
1. Title card in the intro: "Two months after 9/11" — instead of just November? Later, one of the characters jokes: "Americans don't know shit that isn't American" ...
2. Exposition as elegant as this:
— Have you heard of X?
— You mean the X when the Y did the Z and then ABC happened?
— Pfft, it gets better!
3. What passes for composition in this movie:
All of the dialogue scenes are only shot-reverse shot. The composition…
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