Lessons from the Incredibly Obvious File, #1
I waited too long to see Sexy Beast. I know, I know. There's a reason they call Ben Kingsley "Sir".
But the obvious lesson here isn't "cast a knighted actor". For me, the best "duh" lesson here is the heist story. The Gal character is, let's say, persuaded to perform "one last gig"-- a high-stakes heist. Yup, sounds familiar. The twist? They're breaking into the vault from below... underwater.
It sounds simple, but for the love of Ben Kingsley, if you're going to have a heist, make it interesting! Something we haven't seen before! Keep in mind, the heist isn't even the central story, here. Ergo, the heists in actual heist movies had better up the ante from now on.
You take that under advisement, and I'll stop saying the word "heist".
I waited too long to see Sexy Beast. I know, I know. There's a reason they call Ben Kingsley "Sir".
But the obvious lesson here isn't "cast a knighted actor". For me, the best "duh" lesson here is the heist story. The Gal character is, let's say, persuaded to perform "one last gig"-- a high-stakes heist. Yup, sounds familiar. The twist? They're breaking into the vault from below... underwater.
It sounds simple, but for the love of Ben Kingsley, if you're going to have a heist, make it interesting! Something we haven't seen before! Keep in mind, the heist isn't even the central story, here. Ergo, the heists in actual heist movies had better up the ante from now on.
You take that under advisement, and I'll stop saying the word "heist".
posted by Jennica at 9:56 p.m.
1 Comments:
Yeah, because he'll correct you if you don't...
But I do love the fact that, in Sexy Beast the heist itself was almost an afterthought. In so many caper flicks, they spend the whole movie trying to figure out how to get around the unbreakable security system. It's really the antagonist even though it can't do anything but sit there and passively wait to be overcome. That's why they have to throw in some bumbling cop sniffing around the edges pretending to be the antagonist.
Here, they just skipped all that crap - other people, smarter than we, have already worked out the whole thing and we just have to go along for the ride. Enjoy.
great movie...
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