I realized at first sight that they were not dead, because Redford's back does not bleed, and Newman's wound does not spread the blood. I apologise for my shaky English
No way. The con fails because the mark needed to be a shooter in order to make sense. The mark had nothing to do with the murders therefore he’s not obligated to leave and why did he leave and only him. With both the con artist losers dead the mark should have and would have just walked behind the counter and got the money. Now if the mark had been the shooter then he would have gladly left the 500k behind to walk free.
I realized a couple seconds after the gunplay that it was all part of the scam, only because I thought there was no way the movie could end that darkly.
Yep, had me fooled the first time I watchee it. Watched this right after watching The Great Gatsby, & my first thought was "why does Robert Redford always seem to keep dying in these movies?"
Seeing this movie the first time on big screen with a crowd full of people was a once in a lifetime experience. The audience reaction was actually a big part of the movie's energy.
@@infinity4evr I was 14 when I saw it at the theater. Everybody in the entire theater was like; "WTF?! WTF?! WTF?!" with a huge smile on our faces. It's been on my top 10 list ever since then. And top 5 for many many years.
The card scene on the train was the best .... "four jacks....you owe me fifteen grand pal". Robert Shaw was the perfect actor to play the criminal banker.
@jack brandt But it's the wild impossibility of it that makes it such an audaciously brilliant scene ! Like this last scene, in 'reality' a man like Lonnegan wouldn't give a toss about two men being shot, he'd have heavies waiting outside just in case a problem arose who'd wade in, bribe or threaten the 'Feds', and grab the money back !
@jack brandt Not laughable at all. He's a cheat and routinely uses that cheat as one of his goons packs the deck. It doesn't take oo long for word to get around by those he's cheated.
I just watched it clean through for the first time last night after seeing a few clips on RU-vid. They really don’t make movies like that anymore. Pure escape, no preaching, well written, acted and directed.
@@DrMontague The movie setting is 1936, three years after the end of Prohibition. It was an illegal, private, secret betting parlor, and they only let in whoever they wanted.
We thought we were watching Redord and Newman conning Lonnigan, but the whole time we were watching the filmakers conning us... lol. What a great, great movie with an excellent twist.
@@georgepierson4920 He conned Lonnigan twice. First time was at the poker game on the train and the second time was this. The way that this film conned us as viewers were, was when they both got shot and Lonnigan and the other cop was running out of there, they had us believe that the film was indeed over.
I still remember with fondness how this sting moment spurred the large audience of the theatre in Minneapolis into a one loud yell. It totally took me by surprise. Such a great moment in the theatre.
As a young man, I saw this film 8 times and just marveled at the absolutely great story and film that fooled me all the way to the end! One of the greatest movies of all time!
Oh yes, me too. There is a hint, when Gondorf says something about sorting out the Snyder problem when he's made aware of it, but it was so brief and casual a moment that I, like you and millions of others, didn't pick up anything from it.
@@zainulzainul1880 Snyder was legit law enforcement and could have shut the whole operation down. Charles Durning played bumbling idiots, but the guy was a legit war hero from WWII.
This two(Redford and Newman) are unbelievably cute together.Their smile is like an angel's,and I like how Redford's character is not much younger than Newman's,yet both as Hooker or as Sundance he is The Kid.
Is it because it has such a warm heart all through, and their mischief is so jovial and playful, instead of boring cold calculating? Creative is the word!
Two iconic actors whose enduring close friendship lent itself to the screen ..the ultimate partnership shown by the sting and butch Cassidy..two timeless classics 😆
The best from this movie was the music. Without "The Sting", very few people would know about Scott Joplin. Thank you Marvin Hamlish for rediscover this great music. You are a genius. 🎶
Great flic.....think I saw it half a dozen times at the drive in, summer of '73......Charles Durning, the bunko cop from Joliet, was an 18 year old rifleman on D Day....landed on Omaha beach......was machine gunned and bayonetted twice during his service in the European theater....one of the survivors of the Malmady massacre.......RIP Charles Durning......
Close. He was 21 on D Day, as he was born in Feb.'23. My uncle, Lloyd, was 18 and lay on the beach for four hours until medics got to him. Limped the rest of his life, until he died in '93.
Remember my dad making me watch this with him and I can still remember the joy in my heart when I realised what the twist/sting was and that Newman and Redford's characters had made it.
I love Newman and Redford. They and Butch and Sundance and also Gondorff and Hooker are inseparable to me. The sting or con was on us and we weren't even in the movie!
This movie is my #1 on first watch movies...sixth sense is in a distant 2nd but this movie was the first time the writers truly got me...a well crafted movie all around
My late father worked in cinemas in London when this was first released, they ran it for two weeks, I never once saw it right through until 2019, 46 years later.
How can you not love The Sting? There is not one thing that is wrong with it. This was the very first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre in 1973 and it remains my standard for gauging all other movies.
Paul Newman and Robert Redford are partner in heaven, just perfect. Can't name any better duo than both. Thank God McQueen didn't make it as Sundance Kid, otherwise we would not get those 2 brilliant movies, Butch Cassidy and this movie, The Sting.
@@ericdew2021 Lol, no. What I meant is that they are such a superb duo in their movies, like a 'partner in heaven'. 'Heaven' in term of perfectness, fantastic duo. Not referring to death or something like that. Sorry if I confused you.
Part of the reason the ending was so brilliantly effective was I think that they both died as Butch and Sundance. I remember seeing the film in the cinema and still remember the horrified silence followed by cheers and laughter of joy and relief. Now if you can provoke THAT reaction in a film, you're on to a winner !
Thanks such a lot for this! I wish it was the whole movie, but this is my favorite scene in it so I love it! Newman and Redford made an unbeatable team in every way. Clooney and Pitt couldn't measure up.
The best part of the finish of this great movie was the con on the audience. Four years after Butch & Sandance, which everyone loved, and in the Sting, which everyone loved, everyone int he audience is going, "NOT AGAIN!"
It took me a long time to understand the plot in detail. The twist with the feds was marvelous. We were meant to be as clueless as Lonnigan. A great audience con.
The Sting, The Great Waldo Pepper, 3 Days of the Condor and Sneakers are among the most original and entertaining movies ever made. Well done Robert Redford.
both of them have such great smiles and laughs, the director basically told them flash your teeth as many times as possible, dont worry about the situation. :)
I got the piano sheet music from The Sting and learned several of the ragtime songs played throughout this movie when I was a child, and I've played them my entire life. I am 59 now and I finally watched this movie yesterday. It was absolutely wonderful.
This is classic...great acting..well done ..up unto the smaller support roles..convincingly ...and what a gimmick Shaw beating Shaw...Robert Shaw as Lonnigan..threatening with tension in every scene...as a vieuwer you could easely relate to the motivation of all the participants in the sting, to get back at Lonnigan.
@@shrapnel77 Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they rip you to pieces!
@Roger kincard Macgyver would say the episode Twice Stung which is the series response to the Sting. It was formidable but no where near the genius of this movie.
Someone could try to remake this movie, but you know that while they may get all the technical details right, it will still fall flat because of the magic, humour and mischievous fun Redford and Newman bring to their characters. Modern actors are all humorless nonames.
Yeah. Given the amount of time that Shaw spent around Lough Mask in County Galway it's hard to understand why his Irish accent is one of the worst ever captured on film.
Secretly brilliant part of this scene is that Newman and Redford starred in Butch & Sundance by the same director only 4 years earlier. And while we never see it, we can guess that they probably didn't make it out of Bolivia alive. So if you're the audience seeing it for the first time and you already saw B&S, you don't assume Newman and Redford walk away from this one.
He was also excellent in the role of Les Nichols, a widower who falls in love and wants to marry Dorothy Michaels who happens to actually be Michael Dorsey, a man disguised as a woman in TOOTSIE which has got to be one of the funniest movies ever.
