The Split (1968), dir. Gordon Flemyng
next, after Cry Terror! ( link), a film that would become classics, if he had been directed by the creator of the more prized. I do not know whether the time is becoming more gullible, or maybe I got lucky and encounter recently, only good movies. Division is an interesting thriller, which announced called blaxploitation trend, the positive characters are African American. As the most representative film of this trend is considered Shaft (1971) Gordon Parks, but I think The Split (1968) Gordon Flemyng is a movie far better, more engaging and exciting.
film is about a well thought out and well executed robbery during a football match, which fell prey to the money from the bets. Groups of robbers made up of six people, among them is a woman. Like other films of this type of complication begins only after the attack, not during. To split the loot does not occur, the money disappeared in mysterious circumstances, is also committed murder. Heaped recriminations between the bandits it comes to violent acts. When it comes to big money from people facing the worst traits of character. Nobody cares that killed an innocent person, the most important is money, and honor, because the loss of money for a thief is also a loss of reputation and honor.
Although the first half of the film is rather schematic is something in this film, which makes it difficult to tear their eyes away from the screen. When the screen comes up James Whitmore is the culmination of a place, after which the tension has been continually increasing until the very end. After viewing Ocean's Eleven (1960) Milestone'a Lewis lost a bit of confidence in the films robbery attacks, but the film Flemyng restored my faith in the sense of formation of such films. Because of this topic can be a lot of pull. In this film there is no timetabled interesting human characters - Five of the bandits is the collective hero. None of those five are not distinguished, each is equally stupid and foolish. According to the scheme blaxploitation movies are stupid and foolish people of the white race, to be found among them murderers, thugs, corrupt police officers.
still to be recognized that the director had an indisputable advantage, which is well planted with a second plan, including Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Warren Oates and Donald Sutherland. The emergence of Hackman quite a long time to wait, but watching the actors share the dirty dozen (ie Borgnine, Brown, Sutherland), and favorite actor Sam Peckinpah (Oates) is a pure pleasure. Black Jim Brown affair with a matching in terms of race Diahann Carroll, a year later caused controversy affair with a white Raquel Welch in the western 100 rifles. But the end of the '60s This was a period of gradual transformation, including those for tolerance and against racism - the then protests against racial discrimination provoked the discussion, which also joined the filmmakers.
anti-racist After such films as In the Heat of the Night ( In the Heat of the Night , 1967) Norman Jewison film Fri Division is another step toward better treatment by the filmmakers dark-skinned inhabitants of America. Flemyng, of course, video is definitely not better than that, Oscar-winning predecessor, but the creators did not intend to pursue an ambitious thought provoking film, but film, which equally provide viewers entertainment and excitement. In my opinion, movie fulfills its role perfectly, and its biggest drawbacks is too short in duration and slightly absurd scenes of the initial testing of participants jump.
title and opening credits indicate that there may be used in split screen or split screen . However, the operator Burnett Guffey (Oscar for cinematography for Bonnie & Clyde ) explicitly avoids such method, the film that came out for good - a few months ago realized The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Norman Jewison is often used in split screen, which distracts the viewer can not focus on the action film.
Known serials British director Gordon Flemyng was not a difficult task, because the screenplay based on the novel The Seventh Donald E. Westlake 's (written under the pseudonym Richard Stark) shows the simple story, without requiring risky moves and breaking patterns. The action, however, was routed in such a way that engages and holds the voltage. A sensational film that is most important. Despite the fact that for this film took the director Fiction Special is a movie does not look as the episode of the television, just like a typical sensational cinema in an old, classic style, which is a timid attempt to break away from certain conventions and stereotypes.
Known serials British director Gordon Flemyng was not a difficult task, because the screenplay based on the novel The Seventh Donald E. Westlake 's (written under the pseudonym Richard Stark) shows the simple story, without requiring risky moves and breaking patterns. The action, however, was routed in such a way that engages and holds the voltage. A sensational film that is most important. Despite the fact that for this film took the director Fiction Special is a movie does not look as the episode of the television, just like a typical sensational cinema in an old, classic style, which is a timid attempt to break away from certain conventions and stereotypes.
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