Two spoilers for the price of one!
I just happened to have watched The Outfit (1973) with Robert Duval four days ago. If you like mid 70's movies, it's worth watching on a rainy afternoon.
Spoiler #1:
In the movie, The Outfit, Robert Duval's character kills a Mob Boss in his home, while exiting the Mob Bosses 2nd floor bedroom, a goon starts charging up the stairs. Duvall, at the top of the stairs gets the drop on the goon, the goon stops half way up on a landing.
Duval calls out from the top of the stairs, "Stay out of it, he's dead, you're unemployed."
Spoiler #2:
In this movie, Galia is at the top of the stairs, she gets the drop on the goon, the goon stops half way up on a landing.
Galia says to him, "Your Boss is dead. You are out of work. Go... (slight pause) Go.". These two scenes are nearly identical, only the dialog is different.
How the camera shots are set up are pretty much the same in both movies.
Seeing these two nearly identical scenes really lowered my opinion of this movie because the similarity of the two scenes was so blatant. It's one thing to pay homage to a movie but it's entirely something else to do what they did here.
I assume that the writer & director think we have short memories and won't find shortcuts like this. They are wrong and I may think twice about buying tickets to, renting or collecting any of their future work because the odds are, I may have already seen it elsewhere before.
Bruce
I just happened to have watched The Outfit (1973) with Robert Duval four days ago. If you like mid 70's movies, it's worth watching on a rainy afternoon.
Spoiler #1:
In the movie, The Outfit, Robert Duval's character kills a Mob Boss in his home, while exiting the Mob Bosses 2nd floor bedroom, a goon starts charging up the stairs. Duvall, at the top of the stairs gets the drop on the goon, the goon stops half way up on a landing.
Duval calls out from the top of the stairs, "Stay out of it, he's dead, you're unemployed."
Spoiler #2:
In this movie, Galia is at the top of the stairs, she gets the drop on the goon, the goon stops half way up on a landing.
Galia says to him, "Your Boss is dead. You are out of work. Go... (slight pause) Go.". These two scenes are nearly identical, only the dialog is different.
How the camera shots are set up are pretty much the same in both movies.
Seeing these two nearly identical scenes really lowered my opinion of this movie because the similarity of the two scenes was so blatant. It's one thing to pay homage to a movie but it's entirely something else to do what they did here.
I assume that the writer & director think we have short memories and won't find shortcuts like this. They are wrong and I may think twice about buying tickets to, renting or collecting any of their future work because the odds are, I may have already seen it elsewhere before.
Bruce