Parker: We didn't come for absolution, we didn't ask to be redeemed... Your prayers are always answered, in the order they're received...
“Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph!” —Bill Dolworth, The Professionals
An augury comprised of the 'Greatest Hits' of Sam Peckinpah. Mores among the amoral. “Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle,” so said Jim Thompson; better off kicking the bucket and let the crap fly.
Enzo Ferrari: The corner races at you. You have perhaps a crisis of identity—am I a sportsman or a competitor?
Edging between the pastoral romanticism of The Last of the Mohicans and the chamber piece repose in Collateral, Mann’s latest exploration of male psyches wrought by virtuosity in one's profession and maverick singularity is yet another epochal shift in the director’s signature formalism. Collateral and Miami Vice assaulted moviegoers with digital interference; Ferrari, without forgoing Mann’s adroit handling of the format, removes…
“We think too much and feel too little.” —Charlie Chaplin
The hard times before the Modern Times
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Somerset: You know, this isn't gonna have a happy ending.
Mills: Hey man, if we catch him, I'll be happy enough.
Somerset: If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the Devil - I mean, if he's Satan himself – that might live up to our expectations. But… he's not the Devil. He's just a man.
