| | Tytuł oryginalny: | Millers Crossing | | Tytuł polski: | | | Rok produkcji: | 1990 | | Kraj: | United States | | Reżyseria: | Joel Coen | | Obsada: | Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J. E. Freeman, Albert Finney, Mike Starr, Al Mancini, Richard Woods, Thomas Toner | Opis:
Arguably the best film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1990 Millers Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom, a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo (Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). A man of principle, Tom nevertheless is romantically involved with Leos lover (Marcia Gay Harden), whose screwy brother (John Turturro) escapes a hit ordered by Caspar only to become Toms problem. Making matters worse, Tom has outstanding gambling debts he cant pay, which keeps him in regular touch with a punishing enforcer. With all the energy the Coens put into their films, and all their focused appreciation of genre conventions and rules, and all their efforts to turn their movies into ironic appreciations of archetypes in American fiction, they never got their formula so right as with Millers Crossing. With its Hammett-like dialogue and Byzantine plot and moral chaos mitigated by one heros personal code, the film so transcends its self-scrutiny as a retro-crime thriller that it is a deserved classic in its own right. --Tom Keogh
Millers Crossing [1990] [DVD] [1991] (DVD);The boss of the dominant Irish gangsters stirs up a hornets nest of trouble with the subordinate Italian gangsters over the Jewish brother of his girlfriend. His second in command has the burden of trying to calm things down and sort out the mess. He sees that the balance of power is likely to tip in favour of the Italians if the rumpus is allowed to escalate, but not before chaos reigns and a lot of profit is lost and people killed - and all for no good reason: just to win the favour of this woman whos only buttering up the boss to buy his protection for her worthless brother. To complicate matters, Tom (the second in command) is also secretly involved with the woman and he suspects shes only obliging him with her attentions, again, to help out her selfish, ungrateful brother. Also, Tom has a gambling problem that leads all the sleaze-merchants around him to believe they can buy his loyalty by paying off his debts. On top of all that, Tom seems to be afflicted with ethics - the biggest complication of all for a man who makes his living as a mobster. He doesnt appear to be cut out for the life at all. Apart from his ability to take a beating on an almost daily basis and survive relatively unscathed, he just doesnt seem to have what it takes to be a bad guy: the killer instinct.;Its all a bit more complicated than that, but easy enough to follow and interesting enough to make it worthwhile. There are a few clever touches that impressed me in addition to the very sound basics of a good story and fine acting: The film manages to be dark and violent but with a smart, subtle script and great comic timing. Its a visual feast from beginning to end. It starts off in a still and tranquil forest - a situation that couldnt be further from the notion of mob violence. I wonder if Peter Jackson might not have got his idea from this film, of starting his Lord of the Rings trilogy (made over ten years later) in just such a lovely setting, to emphasise the contrast with the battles and terror to come later. Perhaps the similarity was just coincidence and its simply the case that great minds think alike. Either way, the contrast of violence and beauty is very effective and the way the humour is threaded through the story like a string of pearls, makes the whole film sparkle.
| | Obraz: | 1.85 | | Czas trwania: | 115 min | | Dźwięk: | English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English Dolby Digital 4.0, French DTS 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese, Dolby Digital 5.1, German DTS 5.1, Italian DTS 5.1, Japanese DTS 5.1, Russian DTS 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1, Thai, DD 2.0, Turkish, DD 2.0 | | Napisy: | Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Greek, Polish, Turkish, Thai | | Polska wersja językowa: | napisy | | Dodatki: | trailer, photo gallery, Making Of, interviews | | Region: | All Regions (wszystkie) | | Ilość dysków: | 1 | | # CAT: 121[zasłonięte]4106 # TRAITPL1: # TRAITPL2: 15560# |
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