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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The Irishman (or, I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES)
 
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Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.

:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Pacino's amazing. He absolutely nails Hoffa as this charismatic but also highly strung type-A personality (if that means anything). The film can partly be read as the tragedy of the American labor movement. But also you see Scorsese focusing on aging and mortality and the realization that all of this is temporary, whether it's taken suddenly or slowly slips away.

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Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.

:smith:

Grimey Drawer
On the big screen I noticed like the first scene or so of the de-aged DeNiro and Pesci and from there I just forgot about it.

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Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.

:smith:

Grimey Drawer

zer0spunk posted:

a fun read

https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/the-irishman-scorsese-netflix-movie-true-story-lies.html

regardless i think the fate of hoffa was, he was rocking the boat too much and he was killed for it. who did it, where his body ended up being are sort of inconsequential relatively speaking

Yeah, Frank probably didn't do it (and if he did he lied about the particulars for some reason), but one or more persons working on behalf of the mob did.

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Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.

:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Honestly I think part of the casting is just Anna Paquin does a really good disdainful glare.

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Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.

:smith:

Grimey Drawer
I think when you use separate actors you’re very clearly separating periods of time- THIS is when the character was a young man, THIS is him at middle age, etc. Using the same actor with CG/makeup makes it all run together a bit more. I’m not sure if that’s a positive or negative but that’s the effect.

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