2008 · The dance
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Hooligans, firms, coppers who have stopped caring, and one perfect pub. The strand that gets the biggest response, which tells you something about who reads this site.
From the shop: Proper VillainsThe most effortlessly cool dance scene in any gangster film. One Two and Stella understood the assignment.
Gerard Butler largely improvised the deliberately awkward dance moves, and look closely at the supporting cast: Tom Hardy and Idris Elba both appear years before they were household names.
A garda quizzes an IRA man about missing guns and it goes exactly as you would hope.
McDonagh wrote it for Gleeson and then wrote Calvary for him too. Gleeson's son Domhnall played the priest in this one.
Fifteen years in prison and the judge says the words in under a minute.
Day-Lewis spent nights in a cell and was interrogated by real officers for the arrest scenes. He lost two stone.
"He walked on f***ing water." Frankie arrives in Spain.
The Costa del Sol really was full of British criminals in the eighties, after the extradition treaty with Spain lapsed in 1978 and stayed lapsed until 1985. Love shot it in the same towns they had lived in.
"Shut up, you long streak of paralysed piss." Harold Shand tells the mafia what he thinks of them.
The Americans in the film are played by Eddie Constantine, a real American actor who had spent his career playing detectives in French films. The young IRA hitman in the car at the end is a very early Pierce Brosnan, in his first film role.
"You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job." Jack Carter at two in the morning.
The man Carter humiliates here is played by Bryan Mosley, who most British viewers knew as Alf Roberts from Coronation Street. Caine based Carter's stillness on real London hard men he grew up around, and refused to let the character crack a single joke.
An undercover cop in a football firm and the moment he stops being a cop.
Shot in Shepherd's Bush with real fans as extras. Warren Clarke's Bob is based on several real Chelsea faces.
"So I choose my words very carefully. You tell Harry to go f*** himself." JD gives Hatchet Harry's message straight back.
Jason Statham was a street trader selling knock off perfume when Ritchie cast him, and his character Bacon's opening sales patter is what he actually used to say. Vinnie Jones was still a Wimbledon footballer and had never acted before.
Reggie sorts out two men in a Bethnal Green street.
The real Reggie Kray was consulted from prison and reportedly approved of the Kemps because they were twins from working class London. Billie Whitelaw's Violet is the performance critics remember, and the film was Britain's biggest home-grown hit of the year.
"You f***ed up now, son." Carlton meets a fan.
The real Carlton Leach was a consultant on the film and appears in the sequels. The Rettendon murders it ends on have now been the subject of at least five different films, and this is the one that started the franchise.
"Take two steps back and wait your turn." Coach sorts out a cafe queue.
Coach's tartan tracksuits were made specially for the film and became the most talked about costume in it. Farrell has only a handful of scenes, which is why almost every one of them is quotable.
The ex-pro teaches the cons five ways to cheat at football.
Vinnie Jones did the football for real. He was still a registered player when it was shot.
Forty Manchester lads waiting at the station and the GSE get off two stops early.
Lexi Alexander was a world karate champion before she directed. She choreographed every fight herself.
"Solid gold. Bond Street. Two and a half grand." Bettany takes inventory.
It began as a stage play by Louis Mellis and David Scinto, the writers of Sexy Beast, and the two films came out within a year of each other. Bettany was cast after Sadie Frost's agent sent in a tape, and Ridley Scott saw it and put him in A Knight's Tale.
The new kid gets put in the ring in the prison gym and asks who's next.
Written by Jonathan Asser from his years as a prison therapist. Shot in a real disused prison in Belfast.
A squaddie on a Belfast street in 1971 and the riot turns in seconds.
Shot in Blackburn, Sheffield and Liverpool standing in for Belfast. Demange wanted it to feel like a war film with no sides.
The Welsh answer four thousand Zulu war chants with Men of Harlech.
Caine was cast as the officer because he could not play a cockney convincingly enough for the producers.
A colleague asks if he is all right and he tells her exactly what he thinks of care in the community.
McAvoy calls it the best work he has done. It was too much for American distributors and barely got a release there.
The villain explains how his grandmother dealt with rats and it is about him.
The shot is two minutes long with no cuts. Bardem rehearsed the walk so the speech would land as he reached the chair.
Renton updates Choose Life for 2017 and it is bleaker than the original.
Boyle waited twenty years so the actors would have aged for real. The speech was rewritten the week before it was shot.
New in town and he clears the pub of underage drinkers by asking one question.
The village is Wells in Somerset. The cathedral was digitally removed because Edgar Wright wanted a smaller town.
What have the Romans ever done for us apart from all the things they did.
George Harrison mortgaged his house to pay for it. He called it the most expensive cinema ticket in history.
Richard Burton as a London gangster telling his firm they are the governors.
Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the Likely Lads writers, and it is the nastiest thing they ever made.
Bond runs straight through the wall the other man just climbed over.
The man Bond is chasing is Sebastien Foucan, one of the founders of parkour. The crane sequence took six weeks.
"It's a fairytale f***ing town, isn't it?" Harry cannot understand how Bruges is not someone's thing.
Ralph Fiennes took the part because he had never been asked to play a cockney gangster before and wanted to try. Harry only appears in the final act, so nearly everything the audience knows about him comes from phone calls like this one.
The plan is rewritten three times and every version ends at the Winchester.
The pub is the Duke of Albany in New Cross. It closed in 2008 and is now flats.
"Do you consider yourself English?" Stephen Graham's Combo turns a front room into a rally.
Meadows based the film on his own childhood in Uttoxeter. Thomas Turgoose had never acted, was found at a local drop in centre, and refused to audition unless he was paid five pounds.
Aliens on the estate and the kids on bikes are the only ones who take it seriously.
Boyega was nineteen and it was his first film. Cornish cast him after he walked in with more attitude than anyone else.
Two hitmen meet the client in an empty hotel and the contract is signed in blood.
Most of the dialogue was improvised. Wheatley told the cast what happened at the end only when they needed to know.
Mostly American. Bullitt's hills, Sicario's bridge, a diner in Heat. Hitmen, bent cops and men who should have walked away while they still could.
From the shop: Proper VillainsHe fired six shots or only five and the punk has to decide.
Frank Sinatra was set to play Harry until a hand injury ruled him out. Eastwood took the badge and kept it for four sequels.
"Now youse can't leave." Sonny locks the door on a biker gang.
Palminteri wrote the play when he was a struggling actor and turned down a million dollars for the rights because the studio would not let him play Sonny. De Niro saw the show, promised him the part, and made his first film as a director to keep the promise.
Your brother turns up after twenty years and tells you what you have to do to make peace.
William Hurt is on screen for under ten minutes and got an Oscar nomination for it.
"I don't tip because society says I have to." Mr Pink versus the whole table.
Tarantino wrote himself in as Mr Brown but originally wanted to play Mr Pink. Buscemi got the part after his audition, and Tarantino later admitted Mr Pink's tipping speech is exactly how he felt when he worked at a video shop.
The old Nazi meets the courier in the open and the conversation is very polite right until it is not.
Olivier was 69 and ill during the shoot. He got an Oscar nomination anyway.
"This is where I live. This is me." Hoffman draws the line.
Peckinpah cast Hoffman because he wanted a hero who looked like he could not possibly win. The film was refused a video certificate in the UK until 2002.
"Benny Blanco from the Bronx." The young punk Carlito should have killed and did not.
The film is based on two novels by Edwin Torres, a real New York judge who had grown up in Spanish Harlem. Pacino and De Palma had made Scarface together a decade earlier and treated this as the answer to it: the gangster who wants out.
He explains how he has stayed alive for 47 years and the answer is one word.
Day-Lewis stayed in character for the whole shoot and caught pneumonia refusing a modern coat.
"I once saw him kill three men in a bar with a pencil." Viggo explains who his son just crossed.
Baba Yaga is actually a witch in Slavic folklore, not the boogeyman. The writers knew the translation was wrong and kept it because it sounded better.
He explains why he prefers to kill from a distance and it says everything about him.
Audiences gave it a CinemaScore of F. It is now one of the most defended cult crime films of the 2010s.
"Went to the store to get a beer. Came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery." The opening scene.
The brothers wanted Tupac Shakur for the role of Sharif and cast him before falling out on set and firing him. The opening liquor store scene was the first thing they shot, and the studio nearly pulled the film after seeing it.
Internal Affairs walks into a town where every cop knows every other cop.
Stallone took the part for scale. Mangold cast him because he wanted a hero who looked like he had given up.
Real cars real Paris real speed and nobody in the film knew who was in the case.
Frankenheimer put right-hand-drive cars in the chase so stunt drivers could steer while the actors sat in the left seat looking terrified.
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." The line that defined a genre.
Brando stuffed cotton wool in his cheeks for the screen test to get the jowly look. For the shoot itself a dentist made him a custom mouthpiece, which is now in the American Museum of the Moving Image.
Popeye Doyle under the el. No permits, no closed roads, one very real crash.
Friedkin shot much of the chase without permits on live streets in Brooklyn, with a stunt driver doing ninety miles an hour and Friedkin himself in the back with a camera. The crash with the white car was an accident with a resident who had driven out of a side street.
The old man tells his best soldier there are only murderers in this room.
Paul Newman's last live-action role. Conrad Hall won a posthumous Oscar for the photography.
Stuck in traffic on the bridge and every car around you is the enemy.
Roger Deakins shot the bridge in one afternoon with real traffic. The tension comes from waiting, not shooting.
The most quoted last line in noir and nobody in the scene understands it.
Polanski fought Towne for the bleak ending. Towne wanted Evelyn to live.
Christopher Walken introduces himself to Dennis Hopper and it goes exactly how you think.
Walken and Hopper had never met before this scene. Tony Scott shot it in one afternoon and kept the improvised looks.
The father wants the suspect charged and the detective has to tell him how the law works.
Gyllenhaal's blinking tic was his own idea. Villeneuve never explained it and never asked him to stop.
No music no dialogue just engines and hills for ten straight minutes.
McQueen did most of his own driving. The same green VW Beetle keeps reappearing because the chase was cut out of order.
How Nino Brown takes over the Carter in one afternoon.
Wesley Snipes was cast after Mario Van Peebles saw him in the Bad video for Michael Jackson.
The first time Pacino and De Niro ever shared a frame. Two legends, one table, zero wasted words.
They were both in The Godfather Part II but never shared a scene. Mann shot this face off at Kate Mantilini restaurant in LA, and fans still book the same table.
"Let's go clean 'em up." Tommy Lee Jones puts down his dinner.
Quentin Tarantino named his distribution company Rolling Thunder Pictures after it and has called it one of his favourite films. Schrader disowned the finished cut, which is the version everyone loves.
"You want me to kill him?" Loren Visser, the worst private detective in Texas, takes the job.
The Coens shot a fake trailer first and showed it to potential investors to raise the budget. It was Frances McDormand's first film; she married Joel Coen the same year.
A father breaks through a line of police because he already knows.
Eastwood shot it in 39 days. Penn's scream was one take and the extras holding him were real police.
"I just want you to talk to me." Pope makes conversation.
The film is loosely based on the Pettingill family and the 1988 Walsh Street police shootings in Melbourne. It won the World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance and was later turned into an American television series that ran for six seasons.
The elevator scene. A kiss, then the most brutal turn in modern cinema.
The slow motion kiss was Refn's idea on the day. He wanted the Driver to have one perfect moment with Irene before she sees what he really is, so the lights dim, the world stops, and then it doesn't.
The main suspect gets interviewed and answers every question a little too well.
John Carroll Lynch based his performance on the real Arthur Leigh Allen interview tapes. The watch is real too.
A man dies on the subway and rides it for six hours before anyone notices.
The dead man on the train story comes straight from Mann. It sets up the whole film in one speech.
Two nervous robbers a small-town teller and one line that changes the mood.
The banks and towns were shot in eastern New Mexico standing in for west Texas. Most extras were locals.
"A guy with your attitude never carries a gun?" The car park standoff.
O'Neal did most of his own driving. Hill wrote the Driver with almost no dialogue on purpose and told O'Neal to play him like a samurai.
Where the account started. Films that flopped on release, found their people later, and now get quoted in group chats by people who were not born when they came out.
From the shop: The Scene ListThe most iconic taunt in cinema history, and it was made up on the day. Warriors, come out to play.
David Patrick Kelly improvised the whole bottle clinking taunt minutes before the take, basing the voice on a menacing neighbour from his childhood. It became the most famous line in the film.
"From here on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved." Frank White crashes the card game.
Walken has said Frank White is one of his favourite parts and that he based the walk on a dancer, which is what he trained as. Fishburne's character Jimmy Jump was so popular that rappers were quoting him within a year, and the film is name checked on records by Biggie, Nas and Jay-Z.
Lee Marvin walks down a corridor. No dialogue. Just footsteps.
Marvin had approval over the script and gave it all to Boorman, a British director who had only made one film, and protected him from the studio for the whole shoot. The corridor is at Los Angeles airport, and the footsteps continue over the next scene because Boorman wanted them to sound like a heartbeat.
Smokey, this is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
Smokey is played by country musician Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Walter was partly modelled on screenwriter John Milius, the man who wrote Apocalypse Now and directed Conan the Barbarian.
Caught in a choke with the whole school watching. The comeback that made this a cult classic.
Sean Faris did most of his own fight work after months of MMA training, and the franchise later handed the lead to martial arts legend Michael Jai White for the sequels.
"Have you ever heard the expression the customer is always right?" D Fens just wants breakfast.
Douglas took the part for a fraction of his usual fee because he wanted to play someone ordinary. The flat top haircut and glasses were modelled on his own father Kirk's look from the fifties, and the burger scene was shot in a real fast food restaurant that was closed for the day.
The school run. Harvey Keitel drops the kids off and gets on with his morning.
Keitel took the part after Christopher Walken dropped out and shot the whole film in around three weeks. Ferrara has said most of what Keitel does in it was improvised on the day, and Keitel has called it the film that changed his life.
"One of the first things I learned is never to ask a man why he's in a hurry." Eddie Coyle orders some guns.
The film is adapted from George V. Higgins' first novel, which he wrote while working as a federal prosecutor in Boston and based on cases he had worked.
"New to the Yabba?" The friendliest town in Australia.
The film was rediscovered in 2002 by its own editor, who tracked the last surviving negative to a container in Pittsburgh a week before it was due to be burnt. It was one of only two films ever selected for Cannes twice, in 1971 and again as a classic in 2009.
"I am the last guy in the world that you want to f*** with." James Caan collects.
Caan was trained by a real Chicago jewel thief named John Santucci, who also plays a corrupt cop in the film, and the tools Frank uses to open safes were the real thing. Caan has said it is the performance he is proudest of.
"I'll give you 20 seconds to produce some cash." Neville Bartos learns what a standover man does.
Bana put on nearly two stone and spent two days living with the real Chopper Read to get the voice and the walk. Read said afterwards that Bana was the only person who had ever done him justice, and that he looked more like Chopper than Chopper did.
"What do you need out of a gun?" Dwight visits an old school friend for some hardware.
Saulnier and Macon Blair have been best friends since they were kids in Virginia and made horror films together in the garden. Saulnier remortgaged his house to finish the film.
"I think you're better than me. I am better than you." Connie meets Ray in the hospital, and it goes downhill.
Buddy Duress, who plays Ray, was a real Rikers Island inmate the Safdies met while making their previous film, and much of his dialogue here is improvised. Pattinson wrote to the brothers after seeing a single still from Heaven Knows What and asked to work with them.
"That's the rock. That's the stone." Howard shows Kevin Garnett the opal.
The Safdies wrote the film in 2009 and spent ten years getting it made. Garnett plays himself in 2012, and the games in the film are real Celtics playoff games from that year, which the Safdies built the plot around.
No CGI. A real truck, a real rope bridge, a real river in flood. The most dangerous scene ever shot.
The bridge cost around a million dollars to build and the river it was built over dried up, so the whole thing was taken apart and rebuilt in Mexico. Friedkin ran the trucks over it for real and the drivers went into the water more than once.
"When I say that a particular number is my lowest price, that's my lowest price." Lou Bloom negotiates.
Gyllenhaal based Lou on a coyote, an animal that is starving and awake all night, and lived on kale salad and chewing gum for the shoot. Rene Russo is the director's wife, and the film was shot almost entirely at night across Los Angeles on a tight schedule.
Courtrooms, hospital wards, a boxer on her stool, a wrestler with a microphone. A minute is not long. It is long enough.
From the shop: The Scene ListAn old friend refuses to shake Rayon's hand and Ron makes him.
Shot in 25 days on a budget under five million. McConaughey lost 47 pounds for it.
Chased into a corner of a train station by a mob he finally speaks up.
John Hurt's make-up took seven hours to apply. He worked alternate days because of it.
Twenty years of a few days a year and one of them finally says it out loud.
Ledger came up with the clenched-jaw voice himself. Ang Lee says he had never seen an actor build a character that completely.
The most reliably sad scene in film history according to actual research.
Psychologists picked this scene in 1988 as the best clip in the world for inducing sadness in a lab. It is still used.
An old wrestler takes the mic and tells the crowd they are the only family he has left.
Rourke wrote most of the speech himself. Aronofsky let it run.
He tries to explain why he cannot stay and only manages four words.
Matt Damon was going to star and direct. He gave the part to Affleck when his schedule collapsed.
The title fight against the dirtiest boxer in the film and one stool left in the wrong place.
Swank trained for three months, put on 19 pounds of muscle and got a staph infection from a blister she hid from Eastwood.
The teacher is fired and one boy stands on his desk.
The boys standing on their desks was not in the original script. Peter Weir added it during rehearsals.
An old man with no family left asks if he can adopt the boy and the boy says maybe after Alaska.
Hal Holbrook was 82 and got his first Oscar nomination for this. The truck scene is one take.
Two brothers in a cage and one of them says sorry mid fight.
Nick Nolte got an Oscar nomination. The film made less than its budget and has been finding its audience ever since.
She wins custody and then tells him she is not going to take the boy.
Streep rewrote her courtroom speech herself. Hoffman slapped her for real in an earlier scene and she never forgave him.
Get busy living or get busy dying and Red thinks his friend is giving up.
It lost Best Picture to Forrest Gump and only found its audience on VHS and TV reruns.
I'm tired boss and the guard has to decide whether to do his job.
Bruce Willis recommended Michael Clarke Duncan for the part after working with him on Armageddon.
"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
Stallone wrote the speech to his son about his own career. He was 60, the studios thought he was finished, and he had to fight for years to get the film made.
Fifty years later an old man stands at a grave and asks his wife if he was a good man.
The old Ryan is Harrison Young, a bit-part actor. Spielberg cast him after seeing him in a single television episode.
A father who has just lost his daughter tells the tracker what to do and how to do it.
Sheridan wrote it after Sicario and Hell or High Water. The closing card about missing Native women is the reason he made it.
He saved eleven hundred people and all he can think about is the one more he could have got.
Spielberg refused a salary for the film. He said it would have been blood money.
The argument that starts calm and ends with a man on the floor saying sorry.
The argument was rehearsed for weeks and shot over two days. Driver punched the wall for real.
Films that were settled long before we got here. The job with these is picking the minute or two that earns a stranger's attention on a phone.
From the shop: The Scene ListPrivate Joker admits it was him and the sergeant wants to see his war face.
Ermey was hired as a technical adviser. He improvised most of his insults and Kubrick gave him the part.
"What we've got here is failure to communicate." The Captain explains the chains.
Strother Martin's speech was written into the script late and he delivered it in a single afternoon. Newman really ate the eggs in the famous bet scene, or at least most of them.
A general explains Plan R to the President and it gets worse with every sentence.
Kubrick tricked Scott into playing it big by calling the broad takes rehearsals. Scott never forgave him.
Rupert Pupkin finally gets his set and opens with his parents.
It flopped in 1982. Scorsese has said it is the film of his he thinks about most.
The computer suggests the astronaut sit down calmly and take a stress pill.
Douglas Rain voiced HAL in two days and never saw the film during production.
He kisses his brother at midnight and tells him he knows.
John Cazale made five films before he died at 42. All five were nominated for Best Picture.
He asks the nurse to turn the music down and learns what he is dealing with.
Shot inside Oregon State Hospital with real patients as extras. The hospital superintendent plays the doctor.
Cells interlinked within cells interlinked and he is nowhere near baseline.
The baseline text is from Nabokov's Pale Fire. Gosling had to say it flat, hundreds of times, without blinking.
Sarah runs into the man who tried to kill her and he says come with me if you want to live.
Robert Patrick studied the head movement of birds for the T-1000. He ran without breathing hard so it looked effortless.
Greed for lack of a better word is good and the room applauds.
Stone based Gekko on real raiders including Ivan Boesky, who gave a speech at Berkeley saying greed was healthy.
Radio Raheem explains love and hate with his knuckle rings.
The love/hate speech is lifted from The Night of the Hunter. Bill Nunn improvised the boxing.
"Coffee's for closers." Seven minutes of Alec Baldwin that changed how sales teams talk forever.
Baldwin's character Blake is not in the original play at all. Mamet wrote the scene specially for the film, Baldwin shot it in two days, and he is on screen for less than ten minutes of the whole movie.
Will Graham asks Lecktor for help and Lecktor asks how he caught him.
Brian Cox based his Lecktor on the Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel, who defended himself in court.
The fixer names his price and the general counsel says yes on a hidden microphone.
Swinton won the Oscar. The film lost Best Picture to No Country for Old Men, which is fair.
The anchorman tells everyone to open their windows and shout and they do.
Finch won the Oscar posthumously. He died two months before the ceremony.
I didn't kill my wife. I don't care. Then he jumps.
Tommy Lee Jones improvised I don't care. Ford thought he had ruined the take.
Everyone says the knife is one of a kind and juror eight puts an identical one in the table.
Lumet shot it in 19 days and moved the camera lower and closer as the film went on to make the room feel smaller.
"How do you like them apples?" Will gets the girl and the last word.
Damon and Affleck were 27 and 25 when they won the writing Oscar, and Damon started the script as a college assignment at Harvard. The Harvard bar scene was actually shot at a bar in Toronto.
The source has locked himself in a hotel room and the producer gets the manager to say it word for word.
Crowe was 34 playing a man of 52. He put on weight and greyed his hair and got the Oscar nomination.
Two friends forced to play Russian roulette and Walken cannot stop shaking.
De Niro asked for a live round in the chamber during the slap takes so the fear would be real. It was.
A priest walks onto a beach to meet the man who said he would kill him.
Written for Gleeson after The Guard. McDonagh says it is the same character if he had gone into the church.
The editor tells a story about getting it wrong and then says run that baby.
Robards won the Oscar for a part with about ten minutes of screen time. Bradlee, the real editor, said it was too flattering.
The boardroom demo of the new law enforcement droid and the junior executive who volunteers.
The ED-209 was stop-motion by Phil Tippett. The executive's death was cut for the cinema release and restored later.
Korean, Danish, French, Spanish, Cantonese. The received wisdom is that subtitles die on social. The received wisdom is wrong.
From the shop: Scene StudyHow to get the housekeeper fired with one peach.
The house was built from scratch on a backlot, including the garden. It does not exist.
The buyer has 45 and the price is 50 and this is where the week goes wrong.
Mads Mikkelsen's first film. Refn was 25 and had never been to film school.
The rule is you cannot blink and every wrong answer starts it again.
Phoenix and Hoffman did the processing scene in long unbroken takes. Phoenix's face was raw from not blinking.
He bought all the bleach from one shop using different voices and demonstrates them.
Morris spent three years researching, including interviews with people who had been in the cells. The bleach bit is from a real case.
She was told not to eat anything and she eats two grapes.
Doug Jones played the Pale Man and the faun. The eyes in the hands were his idea after del Toro's first sketch had them in the face.
Years after the Wall he finds a book dedicated to his code name and buys it.
Ulrich Muhe, who plays the Stasi officer, found out after the Wall fell that his own wife had informed on him.
Years later the detective goes back to the ditch and a girl tells him someone else was just there.
The real killer was identified by DNA in 2019, sixteen years after the film. He had watched it in prison.
Your best friend is suing you for six hundred million dollars and he says I didn't know that tell me more.
Fincher shot the opening break-up 99 times. Eisenberg says the deposition scenes were the easy days.
Bruce Lee offers a friendly contest and the stuntman takes him up on it.
Bruce Lee's daughter objected to the scene. Tarantino said Lee was arrogant and Cliff Booth is a fictional killer.
What is under the skin, in a forest, in the snow.
The pick-ups were shot with hidden cameras. The men were told afterwards and asked to sign a release.
The hitman walks back into the club with the pianist who could identify him.
The Drive, Ghost Dog and The Killer all start here. Refn calls it the most influential film in his life.
He says he has never been jealous in his life and you believe him which is the problem.
Based on a Murakami short story. Lee Chang-dong never says what happened and Steven Yeun will not either.
She hangs up the phone and runs and the whole film is that.
Franka Potente was not allowed to wash her hair for seven weeks so the red dye would stay consistent between runs.
BOPE on the hillside above Rio and the rules are different up here.
It was pirated so widely before release that 11 million Brazilians had seen it by the time it hit cinemas. It won the Golden Bear anyway.
230 metres down and the bolts start firing across the boat.
The cast were kept out of daylight for the whole shoot so they would go pale. The set had no removable walls.
"C'est a moi que tu parles?" Vinz does Taxi Driver in a bathroom mirror.
The film was shot in colour and converted to black and white afterwards, which is why the greys look so rich. The French government held a screening for the cabinet, and the prime minister made his ministers watch it.
Two men who do not know who the other one is listen to a hi-fi together.
The hi-fi scene is the only time the two leads share a frame before the ending. The remake kept the idea.
The teahouse. Two guns, a toothpick, and the shootout every action director has been copying for thirty years.
The teahouse was a real restaurant in Hong Kong that had already closed down, so the crew were allowed to destroy it completely. The two pistol stair slide has been copied so often it has its own name in Hong Kong action circles, and Woo shot the sequence with real squibs and thousands of blanks.
A history teacher who trained as a dancer finally dances.
Mikkelsen trained as a gymnast and dancer before acting. Vinterberg's daughter was due to appear and died in a car crash days into filming; he dedicated it to her.
Horror, sci-fi and the thrillers in between. A car with no way out, a box on Arrakis, a language nobody on Earth can read.
From the shop: Horror Movie Night Kit"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." Hannibal Lecter reads Clarice like a book.
Hopkins is on screen for just over sixteen minutes in the whole film and won Best Actor for it. The hiss after the chianti line was not scripted.
She writes HUMAN. Then they answer.
It is based on Ted Chiang's short story Story of Your Life, and it won the Oscar for Sound Editing.
The quietest superhero reveal in cinema history. No cape, no CGI, just a bench press and his son watching.
Shyamalan structured the entire film like the first issue of a comic book, and it launched a trilogy nobody saw coming until Split arrived 16 years later.
One unbroken shot inside a moving car.
Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki shot it with a camera rig built into a modified car, with seats that tipped back so the lens could swing past the actors.
Take your hand out of the box and you die.
Dune won six Oscars, more than any other film at that year's ceremony.
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