Hopefully I'm not doing Brad Pitt or Morgan Freeman a disservice here. If you say "Brad Pitt," I will think of this film. If you say "Morgan Freeman," I will think of THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, BATMAN BEGINS, or THE DARK KNIGHT.
Man that is the worst mf luck,expect the unexpected.You don't do that shit in day light anyway or put that in a bag,but fuckin hell it just makes you cringe when it hits the barge don't it,just perfect landing.Boom,just like that.
No it doesn't have a happy ending it has some quote by Hemingway about the world being a fine place worth fighting for and Somerset agrees with the second part. Tracy was nervous about bringing a child into a world like that too though she wanted children anyway turns out she had real cause for concern.
Until he is in the scene where he dies. Chris and snoop and O-dog even move like chess pieces. Chris moves straight like a rook, snoop diagonally like a bishop, and o dog turns to corner in an L shape like a knight. Bodie shoots diagonally, same as how a pawn attacks. He’s just “one smart ass pawn”.
Great scene, and probably pretty overlooked by a lot of people who watch the movie. In three minutes, they lay out the entire theme of the movie and their respective philosophies on life, while also setting up the conflict at the conclusion perfectly. I'm not the biggest fan of Brad Pitt in this role, but the way he says ". . . I can't" at the end of his speech is perfect.
Thing is Bodie didn’t fuck up. He wiped the guns and tossed them in the harbor but he can’t control the a boat driving past. What ended up saving him was knowing he wiped the guns!
Truth is they’d never keep pressing you if they had that on you. They’d give you a lawyer so he can explain how fucked you are and talk you into cooperating.
Kinda worth noting that the guy who plays Ray Cole in this scene (the white-haired detective who points out the gun) is Robert F. Colesberry, a really brilliant producer who is probably single-handedly most responsible for the visual “look” and overall production design on the show from day one, until he suffered an untimely demise during the production of season 3. David Simon gives him a *ton* of credit for the overall success of the show.
@@liambeamer1883 Yeah, that’s pretty much it, exactly! That whole realistic “street” look that still somehow looks filmic and beautiful. He had also worked on the (underrated) Scorsese films After Hours and The King of Comedy in the ‘80s, and you can see the visual links to The Wire. He worked first with David Simon on The Corner, and I think Simon said something to the effect of “I never want to make another film or TV show without this guy by my side ever again.”
@@tayetiwoni He died quite suddenly at the relatively young age of 57 from “complications resulting from cardiac surgery”, which I think was a pretty unexpected and unlikely outcome for the surgery he was having. It was actually right after he made his debut as a director on the season 2 finale “Port in a Storm” which was a standout episode of the whole series that he NAILED - I still say that his montage for the end of season 2 is far and away the best one of the series. The “Irish wake” we get for Ray Cole early in season 3 is really a veiled tribute to Colesberry, with Landman’s speech referencing various aspects of his career.
I do not know why the guns would be thrown away in a backpack, at a single location, intact. The guns should have been broken down and the pices dropped into maybe four of five bodies of water.
What kind of dumbass does this? Everyone knows you take them apart, and take a drill bit and run it down the barrels and take a punch to the firing pin. Then you dump the pieces in different spots. Yeah real smart. Put them in a bright bag that will nost likely float.
How Somwrset described what's "wrong with the world" is the standard now, the everyday, common thing. What's kinda alarming us what was once considered capital sins, the 7 mentioned in the movie nowadays it's not a big deal, none of them, how crazy is that?
Even as a kid (when i should be identifying with Pitt's character) i always saw Morgan Freeman as the older wiser guy whom i respected and listened to. Pitt's character really is a naive, but he was convinced that he wasn't. And he found out the hard way that he actually was. When i first saw this film as a kid, i was also already watching the news...
The barksdale organisation had enough money to buy a hydraulic press to crush the guns, it would be easier than dumping them in water and looking for incoming boats
