In Reply to: It's extremely overrated. posted by Donald on May 23, 2005 at 07:49:52:
glorified violence and the Mafia: the protagonist triumphs through murder, as did his father.
"Natural Born Killers" glorifies violence, using many directorial tricks to trivialize death and torture. Not the case with C of G, at all.
Movies change, technology is used in different ways, and jump cuts, hand-held, slow-mo, speeded up scenes, etc. necessarily don't dilute the impact. To me, the deaths of the characters in C of G were tragic, not heroic.
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Follow Ups
- Bollocks: the Godfather - tinear 14:49:23 05/23/05 (5)
- It's not the tragic conclusion but the slick ride - Donald 04:41:27 05/24/05 (4)
- Writing Pedestrian? - jamesgarvin 07:41:33 05/24/05 (3)
- Why do you assume I'm talking about the dialogue? - Donald 15:45:49 05/24/05 (2)
- Re: Why do you assume I'm talking about the dialogue? - jamesgarvin 08:56:45 05/25/05 (1)
- I was born in Rio and have lived there for years... - tinear 17:09:54 05/26/05 (0)