JamesJazGuitar Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 17 minutes ago, Janet0312 said: This is Eddie's favorite Christmas noir??? I hope I'm not in the minority, but I though this picture sucked. I did enjoy the on location shooting. The story itself was okay, but the acting was horrible and the narration had me in stitches. It gave me the feeling of waking up to a very bad day. It was a joke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 FILM NOIR SANTA WISHES YOU LAZY, TWO BIT, GOOD-FOR-NUTHIN BUNCH OF BUMS A MERRY FRIGGIN CHRISTMAS. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 (don't worry, he only comes if you've been naughty.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Blast of Silence" was worth seeing. My favorite part of the film was the jazz score. It helped energize those scenes with little to no dialoged. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midwestan Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 51 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said: (don't worry, he only comes if you've been naughty.) Gadzooks! I'm doomed! 😜 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, midwestan said: Gadzooks! I'm doomed! 😜 you, me and 8 billion other people.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midwestan Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, laffite said: The Hallmark Channel should air Blast of Silence as part as their Christmas fare. That should shake up a few souls. YES! YES! A thousand times YES!!!! 😂🎅🏻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie_G Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 The attempted rape on Christmas Day was a first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 45 minutes ago, JamesJazGuitar said: Blast of Silence" was worth seeing. My favorite part of the film was the jazz score. It helped energize those scenes with little to no dialoged. Absolutely. The score - Meyer Kupferman (have to look him up) - and the cinematography — Merrill Brody — really worked together. I thought the second person narration really worked too. Why did Frankie throw away the gun before his encounter with the mob? Out of bullets maybe? He did shoot Troiano a lot of times. I knew I was going to love this movie when Frankie is thinking in second person that the reason Troiano wears a mustache is to hide his big ugly girly lips. A face that’s easy to hate. Allen Baron has noticeably thin lips. A tickler. The cigarettes were filter cigarettes and the smoking was sort of forced. The shorter the cigarette the better. Lori was a good looker, and I could feel the defeat in Frankie when he finds the guy shaving in the bathroom. That was a good scene. Once again, two very attractive libations left on the table in the bar. These were two nice cold beers in proper Pilsner glasses. ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 I think it's what they do, to lose the gun after a job. What was he doing with the gun, the preparatory stuff, while sitting on the bed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Baron was very De Niro-ish in looks and acting style. Heightening the resemblance for me in a fascinating way were three scenes that seemed to pre-date TAXI DRIVER and GODFATHER II -- the way Travis kept pointing his gun, and a young Vito pushing the murdered Fanucci to the ground with his leg, then going up on the rooftop. I wonder if Scorcese and Coppola saw this when it came out. I could have done without the Lionel Stander narration -- much too heavy-handed. In fact, I think the movie would have been stronger without any VO. And don't get me started on that bongo player. Overall, an interesting mix of early indie NYC "arty" with Hollywood noir. I enjoyed it! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigarjoe cellph Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, laffite said: I think it's what they do, to lose the gun after a job. What was he doing with the gun, the preparatory stuff, while sitting on the bed? Checking the action, cleaning and oiling it. He also took the bullet out of a cartridge emptied out the gunpowder and then put it in the cylinder and checked the strike indentation of the firing pin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 I also liked the stuffed penguin. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 23 minutes ago, Katie_G said: The attempted rape on Christmas Day was a first... Okay, it looked bad but the movie does not want us to see it quite that way. It was more an expression of loneliness and social ineptitude (quite!), along those lines. The context of the character and story, etc., undermines the very serious claim "attempted rape." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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laffite Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, Cigarjoe cellph said: He also took the bullet out of a cartridge emptied out the gunpowder and then put it in the cylinder and checked the strike indentation of the firing pin. Why did he do that? Why is it necessary to check the strike indentation of the firing pin? Did he suspect something wrong with the gun? Perhaps because of its source? Anyway, thanks. I don't know much about guns, duh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Did I say penguin? I meant panda. I thought he was going to take that poor thing from Troiano's cold dead hand and drop it into one of the sidewalk Christmas charity bins. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 16 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said: An arresting shot (or I hope not a shot). In the 90s, Russell Baker, an opt-ed columnist for the New York Times saw an ad for a movie with a gun pointed right at the reader, much like this photo, and wrote a column about it. He decried this practice, owning to at least a mild discomfort of being on the other end of a pointed gun, and for having only to commit the innocuous action of opening a page in a newspaper. Knowing Mr Baker, and for most of us here who remember him and his writings, will not no doubt suspect that there was a level of tongue-in-cheek in his remarks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bronxgirl48 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, laffite said: An arresting shot (or I hope not a shot). In the 90s, Russell Baker, an opt-ed columnist for the New York Times saw an ad for a movie with a gun pointed right at the reader, much like this photo, and wrote a column about it. He decried this practice, owning to at least a mild discomfort of being on the other end of a pointed gun. Knowing Mr Baker, and for most of us here who remember him and his writings, will not no doubt suspect that there was a level of tongue-in-cheek in his remarks. If someone didn't know that was from BLAST OF SILENCE, they might have said TAXI DRIVER. Moi aussi! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thompson Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 13 minutes ago, laffite said: Why did he do that? Why is it necessary to check the strike indentation of the firing pin? Did he suspect something wrong with the gun? Perhaps because of its source? Anyway, thanks. I don't know much about guns, duh. This was very realistic. A professional gunman doesn’t just take his newly bought weapon for granted. It’s not like Gunsmoke where one cowboy throws his gun to another cowboy and that cowboy shoots the bad guy. Didn’t Travis in Taxi Driver oil his gun(s) and do that stuff that Frankie did? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bronxgirl48 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4kOCXTlCVxI/UF8XnGcm6jI/AAAAAAAAvoM/FHDiUuVGgOk/s1600/bos1http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4kOCXTlCVxI/UF8XnGcm6jI/AAAAAAAAvoM/FHDiUuVGgOk/s1600/bos11.jpg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Janet0312 said: This is Eddie's favorite Christmas noir??? I hope I'm not in the minority, but I though this picture sucked. I did enjoy the on location shooting. The story itself was okay, but the acting was horrible and the narration had me in stitches. It gave me the feeling of waking up to a very bad day. You are in the minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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