Some stuff that bugged me...
The first beat cop to come across the hiested bank says "perp with a gun" in three seperate shots (he's only got maybe five shots in the whole movie); its as though the director wasn't sure how he'd like to fit the line in, then decided to go with all the test shots.
Clive says 'no cops, or people will die', next several shots are cops and police vehicles going back and forth in full view of the bank's front doors. I know, I know, so the audience would notice and feel tension. I just thought it was a little heavyhanded.
Jodie made a surprisingly good ice queen, Denzel was comfortable in his character's skin, Clive was okay, but I kept hearing the writer through their lines. Your opinion?
At beginning of movie Clive is addressing the camera directly, something to the effect of 'now listen very carefully because I only say things once and I never repeat myself'. Two things with this...
(1) Addressing the audience directly is never used again throughout the whole movie so it stuck out like a sore thumb to me. If someone would like to venture that the viewer is actually seeing Clive address his team, why would he talk to them like that, especially with such stakes in the balance; it doesn't fly.
(2) He says 'I never repeat myself' and then that same shot is shown again late in the movie for the thick-witted in the audience.
There's a great song used during the opening sequence and end credits of the movie. And the song has NOTHING to do with the movie; this too sticks out like a sore thumb. It is a popular song called "Chaiya Chaiya" from the soundtrack of the Bollywood movie "Dil Se", all words are in Hindi or Urdu (I don't know which). The story in Dile Se has nothing in common with Inside Man. There does happen to be one minor sikh character in Inside Man. But basically Inside Man is set in New York City, briefly chases an Albanian red herring, and then veers into Nazi war crimes. How does Chaiya Chaiya relate to any of that?
The stunning singer/dancer for Chaiya Chaiya in Dil Se, Malaika Arora, can be seen here: www.brns.com/bollywood/pictspages/malaika1.html
She has nothing to do with anything else in that movie. Just a sexy thang in a good song stuck in the movie. She MIGHT be representing the beauty of girls from the Assam province (where that part of the story is taking place). Assam girls are known as the best looking women in India.
The first beat cop to come across the hiested bank says "perp with a gun" in three seperate shots (he's only got maybe five shots in the whole movie); its as though the director wasn't sure how he'd like to fit the line in, then decided to go with all the test shots.
Clive says 'no cops, or people will die', next several shots are cops and police vehicles going back and forth in full view of the bank's front doors. I know, I know, so the audience would notice and feel tension. I just thought it was a little heavyhanded.
Jodie made a surprisingly good ice queen, Denzel was comfortable in his character's skin, Clive was okay, but I kept hearing the writer through their lines. Your opinion?
At beginning of movie Clive is addressing the camera directly, something to the effect of 'now listen very carefully because I only say things once and I never repeat myself'. Two things with this...
(1) Addressing the audience directly is never used again throughout the whole movie so it stuck out like a sore thumb to me. If someone would like to venture that the viewer is actually seeing Clive address his team, why would he talk to them like that, especially with such stakes in the balance; it doesn't fly.
(2) He says 'I never repeat myself' and then that same shot is shown again late in the movie for the thick-witted in the audience.
There's a great song used during the opening sequence and end credits of the movie. And the song has NOTHING to do with the movie; this too sticks out like a sore thumb. It is a popular song called "Chaiya Chaiya" from the soundtrack of the Bollywood movie "Dil Se", all words are in Hindi or Urdu (I don't know which). The story in Dile Se has nothing in common with Inside Man. There does happen to be one minor sikh character in Inside Man. But basically Inside Man is set in New York City, briefly chases an Albanian red herring, and then veers into Nazi war crimes. How does Chaiya Chaiya relate to any of that?
The stunning singer/dancer for Chaiya Chaiya in Dil Se, Malaika Arora, can be seen here: www.brns.com/bollywood/pictspages/malaika1.html
She has nothing to do with anything else in that movie. Just a sexy thang in a good song stuck in the movie. She MIGHT be representing the beauty of girls from the Assam province (where that part of the story is taking place). Assam girls are known as the best looking women in India.
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