1973, Mean Streets - the year Harvey Keitel became great. 1976, Taxi Driver - the year Harvey Keitel became a legend. 1992, Bad Lieutenant AND Reservoir Dogs - the year Harvey Keitel became GOD.
alot of it isn't acting. he's really crying. personal problems away from the film helps you can tell that he's pissed drunk in alot of these scenes. in apocalypse now martin sheen really got drunk and was really depressed.
I think anyone who has held down a stressful job where you have to be assertive if not aggressive day in day out should be able to find something in this film. It's a great flawed and underrated movie
Aaargh, there's just so many great moments and lines in this film! I love the scene where, after losing and now owing the bookie $60,000, he goes to the club specifically to meet the bookie's intermediary, arrives late, and responds to the intermediary's opening question "You got the money?" with a straight faced "What money?" Brilliant, brilliant line.
Spoiler Alert! How many peope actually understand the ending? It is a story of redemption. Keitel can only be forgiven for his sins as he forgives others who have sinned against him, as the nun also forgave. When he was killed at the end as he knew he would be he died in a state of grace. A Catholic movie.
Agree 100% . Besides, is a film full of symbolism : the calice is the symbol of sacrifice but also the redemption and when he finds it he choices the hardest way. An intelligent masterpiece.
The box of money he carried around with the crosses on it . Jesus turning into the woman who led him to the rapists to fulfill his mission. Amazing movie
The thing I don't get is that the rapists could have just spent the 30k and returned to the city in the future. But I do understand that he gave forgiveness by letting them go.
Only keitel could play this role perfectly the should have never made a remake of this movie cage is a very good actor but this role will forever be keitel
Nie mogę przestać słuchać tej piosenki.poruszający film a scena z tańcem i płacz porucznika to wyżyny aktorstwa .Film nie jest komedią raczej dramatem.Widziałam to wiele razy i jeszcze wiele razy obejrzę
I still don't fully understand the ending. The 2 guys he sends away at the end could have just spent the 30k and returned to New York in the future. Can you enlighten me on how that was supposed to redeem him, please? I genuinely would like to hear what others think about it.
@@studas2011 he paid for his own redemption through forgiveness. Of course they could return, but that's their fate. Forgiving these fucks for all their crimes was symbolic of his own forgiveness. Letting them go was him letting go of his own shadow, his own demons, hence the moaning and whinging. When he gets shot a scene later, you know he's at peace because he's freed that shit from his soul. He's let it go.
I wish the clip had the best movie quote in it: Harvey Keitel at the club with the bookie: I've been dodging bullets since I was 14, Nobody can kill me... I blessed ... ... ... I'm a $u%king Catholic!!! If I could hang out with a star for a whole day it would be him.
it´s been a long time, i´ve watched this movie! on november 22nd the film is going to be shown in a very small PROGRAMM-KINO in wiesbaden......... i´m about to watch this film for the 40th time........ but this time with my girlfriend! LOL........
It is like watching a car wreck happen again and again and again. It's up to you if that's what you want to see. But anyone nastalgic for the 80's mets and a fictional series against the dodger, than that might help.
@TheCorruptA I think you're refeering to the song "Signifying Rapper" by Schooly D. It was removed because it sampled "Kashimr" by Led Zepplin without being cleared by the band and upon viewing the movie, Jimmy Page objected strongly to its use.
The a galling thing is, the film had actually been out for months on video tape and laser disc before Led Zep got pissy about it, so they had to re-edit the film and re-release it
Coppola was unhappy with Harvey Keitel's take on Willard, saying that the actor "found it difficult to play him as a passive onlooker" but in an interview he said that it was a desicion of the poducers, Who knows ???
Cut Coppola someslack. Dude was stressed in so many ways. Sheen did a damn good job. Who's to say Keitel couldn't have but at the same time give it up for Martin.
@@MrDanty64 In my book Francis got all the slack he needs; he mortgaged his house on Apocalypse, which was not a sure fire hit by any means. Martin gave everything he got, even to the point of a heart-attack; so again no qualms there. He did a fine job. Just a niggling thought that Keitel v Brando would have been more explosive somehow.
I was watching the Nick Cage Bad Lieutenant today, it was blasphemy compared to this classsic. I remember watching the original when it came out feeling like I just watched a movie that meant something. The new Bad Lieutenant had nothing to it, shallow and cheap.
Just saw the version Herzog directed with Cage and I have to try and be as fair as possible. That crap that Herzog put out was horrible. The movie had no depth was badly written, and Cage as well as others were horrible in their acting. There is no way in the world you can compare these two films. Ferrera did a much better job directing and Keitel was awesome.
It didn't go straight to DVD. When the film came out, it had quite a run on the independent film circuit. It made a big splash in my city and was much talked about in film buff circles.
@jamesbluntslunts I hate nick Cage and that he was in the remake makes me hate him anymore. On a differnet topic I saw you'r channel and the Wire = best show ever.
