I VOD Dick Tracy
Emily, upon seeing this week's Cash, said that I've been watching too much Dick Tracy.
She's probably right - I've watched it at least once a week, usually more, for the last month or so. But it's just so good! And not just the cinematography, which is gorgeous, but the whole thing is really great. The bizarrely grotesque vilains almost go further than the 4-color palette to plant us firmaly in another world. Madonna (actually good in this movie) is vampy and sympathetic and full of double entendre, just as she should be. The mystery is actually pretty cool, what with No-Face wandering around, blowing stuff up and having no face. Lord help me I'm even starting to like The Kid. I also think a really great essay could be written about Warren Beatty the gangster (Bonnie and Clyde, Bugsy) playing the ultimate gangbuster, especially considering the behind the scenes reality that he was actually sleeping with the femme fatale, not poor put upon Glenn Headly. It's a reversal that works really well for him.
Thank you, On Demand, for making all this possible.
She's probably right - I've watched it at least once a week, usually more, for the last month or so. But it's just so good! And not just the cinematography, which is gorgeous, but the whole thing is really great. The bizarrely grotesque vilains almost go further than the 4-color palette to plant us firmaly in another world. Madonna (actually good in this movie) is vampy and sympathetic and full of double entendre, just as she should be. The mystery is actually pretty cool, what with No-Face wandering around, blowing stuff up and having no face. Lord help me I'm even starting to like The Kid. I also think a really great essay could be written about Warren Beatty the gangster (Bonnie and Clyde, Bugsy) playing the ultimate gangbuster, especially considering the behind the scenes reality that he was actually sleeping with the femme fatale, not poor put upon Glenn Headly. It's a reversal that works really well for him.
Thank you, On Demand, for making all this possible.
5 Comments:
Were I Warren Beatty, I totally would have been hittin' Glenn Headly. I love her.
Also, I love Dick Tracy. When it's on I usually watch part (if not all) of it. Plus, not many movies can claim to have original Stephen Sondheim songs.
You are so gay for Stephen Sondheim.
I mean in that in the 1920's sense.
I had all the Tracy action figures except for the Blank and Sam Catchem. I used to have fights between Lips Manlis' gang and Big Boy Caprice's.
Oh, favorite villains:
1. Flattop
2. Shoulders
3. The Brow
Alex, how could you leave out Pruneface??? Or The Rodent? Okay, Rodent sucked. But that nose!
It's funny, I saw the comic separate from the rest of the blog and the first thing that popped into my head was Dick Tracy. Nicely captured, Ace.
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