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post #16 of 23
6/27/09 at 9:29pm
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Originally Posted by life_interrupts View Post
Hewitt is a very good actor.

+1.
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post #17 of 23
6/27/09 at 9:51pm
I thought everyone had seen Brick.

The Brothers Bloom, of course, is a completely different movie. I liked it, but it wasn't a great film.
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post #18 of 23
6/27/09 at 10:11pm
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But the noir dialogue was the mark. If you aren't playing with the genre's tropes, you have no movie.

you don't have much of a movie if you don't connect with the characters, either. listening to 1990s socal highschoolers talk like they were in 1930s chicago is cute for a while - probably longer if you're still in high school.
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post #19 of 23
6/27/09 at 10:54pm
The point of the movie is to integrate noir tropes (the VP as police chief, etc.) into a high school milieu. The dialogue is part of that - if you start to disassociate from stylization of the genre, you're dealing with a generic teen mystery.
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post #20 of 23
6/30/09 at 12:44pm
it's a high school version of bugsy malone.
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post #21 of 23
7/3/09 at 12:34am
Rian Johnson was a guest on my radio show a couple months ago. Super, super nice guy. Soft spoken and sharp as a tack.

I loved Brick. I thought the dialogue was fantastic -- I liked that it both alluded to the tough-guy talk of classic noir, and the instantly evolving, neologistic language of teenagers in general.
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post #22 of 23
7/3/09 at 10:04pm
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Originally Posted by life_interrupts View Post
Hewitt is a very good actor.

You mean Gordon-Levitt?
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post #23 of 23
7/30/09 at 11:08pm
Great flick, loved it... though friends found it hard to follow.
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