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post #1 of 9
11/11/10 at 7:00pm
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You can't forget Milius and Warren Oates.

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post #2 of 9
11/12/10 at 2:34pm
Could not agree more with this article, particularly with the bit about it not being a classic, but certainly being something to watch. Oates' performance in this is one of his best. Great story.
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post #3 of 9
11/12/10 at 4:26pm
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Originally Posted by Smilin' Jack Ruby View Post
Oates' performance in this is one of his best.
Even if only for pulling off the boater, which is a pretty difficult hat to look cool in.
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post #4 of 9
11/12/10 at 4:30pm
Nobody remembers Milius, period. But if Mann took some liberties with the Pelvis/Dillinger story, Milius threw the story out the window. Not that there's anything wrong with that - it's a great film.
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post #5 of 9
11/12/10 at 5:56pm
In my imaginary retrospective film festival of movies created due to the success of other movies (in which Easy Rider is paired with Two-Lane Blacktop and Taxi Driver is paired with Rolling Thunder), this movie gets paired with Bonnie & Clyde. Good work.
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post #6 of 9
11/12/10 at 6:14pm
I love this movie. Richard Dreyfuss steals the whole damn movie (perhaps inadvertently), and there are few things I enjoy in this world more than telling people about his extended cameo and supremely satisfying riverside beatdown.
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post #7 of 9
11/12/10 at 6:17pm
I love Dillinger and I admit it got in the way of my enjoyment of Public Enemies. Milius' script is fabulous. And what a cast.

The film I think of the most as an influence on Milius is not Bonnie And Clyde but The Wild Bunch. First off, casting The Gorch Brothers as opposing leads is fabulous. But if you compare the action scenes of both movies (particularly TWB's first one) you will see Milius emulating a lot of Peckinpah. It's cool in a film-geek way because he didn't have access to home video then. He simply had to have paid repeatedly to see Wild Bunch in the theater and lots of those stunts, camera angles, and bursts of violence must have been seared into his memory.
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post #8 of 9
11/12/10 at 6:21pm
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I love this movie. Richard Dreyfuss steals the whole damn movie (perhaps inadvertently), and there are few things I enjoy in this world more than telling people about his extended cameo and supremely satisfying riverside beatdown.
Coming where it did in his career, this movie is a great introduction to Dreyfuss's propensity for scenery chewing and general overacting.
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post #9 of 9
11/13/10 at 12:00am
It's most definitely a superior film to Public Enemies, Milius wasn't interested in making the audience identify with Dillinger, we should honestly hate him for the way he kidnaps Billie Frechette and forces himself on her.
Melvin Purvis wanted to catch Dillinger but finds himself engaged in a kind of PR war which Melvin ends up losing.
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