The A To Z Of Michael Mann Public Enemies sees the return of Michael Mann with a typically stylish and finely-detailed gangster epic . To mark its release we've embarked an alphabetic jaunt through the tropes and traits that make him one of cinema's true auteurs. Welcome to Mikepedia.
It’s not hard to draw a bead from James Caan’s granite-eyed safecracker in Mann’s 1981 feature debut Thief, through Heat’s Neil McCauley to John Dillinger. For one thing, they represent several millennia of jail sentences between them, but none end up in a courtroom. Each has a code of honour, a ready line in police-riling banter ("Has it ever occurred to you to try and work for a living," deadpans Frank to a ring of coppers), and a grim fate waiting round the corner. But there’s no karmic link between crime and punishment in these amoral worlds - "I don’t see things in moral terms," says Mann. "It’s not about deserving something." Or as McCauley puts it, "Life is short. Whatever time you get is luck."
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RE: Tut, tut and thrice tut
Posted on Monday July 6, 2009, 10:25 by eanraig_macpatrick
Feck me! You've done it again! It's there in the 'D' section as well! Sort it out, lads! *shakes head sadly* Read More
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RE: Tut, tut and thrice tut
Posted on Monday July 6, 2009, 10:21 by eanraig_macpatrick
Oops! It was in section 'A', not number 10 (wtf??!!)
Perhaps I'll see ]you later, instead *blushes* Read More
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RE: Indigo
Posted on Friday July 3, 2009, 21:10 by odddaze
Not a big fan of the Mann, whilst Heat, Collateral, The Insider & Manhunter are all great, Ali, Miami Vice (whichis a terrible, terrible movie) and Public Enemies really aren't all that, they are slow, dull and unfufilling. All well made, but just not all that great. Read More
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RE: Indigo
Posted on Friday July 3, 2009, 12:33 by uheiberg
it is, they messed up, as they do from time to time. but that is s pretty big mistake to make if you ask me Read More
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