Dressed To Kill
When you first saw this, did you think it was shocking, or did you just think "I already saw Psycho"?
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Oh, I forgot to mention another piece of DRESSED TO KILL parentage: DePalma's HOME MOVIES, which was made shortly earlier. Keith Gordon and Nancy Allen play essentially the same characters but in an...
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Monsterpal wrote: I remember laughing a lot when I saw it. So did I...That's because DePalma's work is a joke!
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I have a real fondness for De Palma and will usually come to his defense. He's often too easily brushed aside by "film fans", we can talk about the problems with his or any film-maker's work ad...
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Harry Fielder wrote: Loved this film.... Aitch, I was talking about Hitchcocks version....Aitch,
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Just watched this again last night on the special edition DVD. All these years later, what struck me most was that, although the Hitchcock parallels are certainly there, they don't seem so important...
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For all it's criticism DTK certainly stands proudly among the scads of giallos we praise which are not nearly as cohesive or cogent as DTK. It does also prove out the mediocrity of critics who focus...
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Hollywood Gothique wrote: Originallity is overrated, IMHO. I think this opinion is a necessary precondition for admiring DePalma's work.
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It's a fun, trashy film. It does play like a sleazy remake of Psycho circa 1980. The similarities are pretty darn obvious of course and DePalma's Hitchcock fetish is notorious. By this time DePalma...
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Doc Dynamo wrote: Hollywood Gothique wrote: Originallity is overrated, IMHO. I think this opinion is a necessary precondition for admiring DePalma's work. Sigh. And the work of George Lucas, Quentin...
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Originality has never been "being completely original". It's more the ability to think outside the box which a good filmmaker needs and that often includes borrowing and reconditioning old ideas. The...
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Uchujin65 wrote: Originality has never been "being completely original". It's more the ability to think outside the box which a good filmmaker needs and that often includes borrowing and...
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Why does this thread remind me of what critic Stanley Kauffmann once said about Peter Bogdanovich: "The one thing we don't have to fear from him is originality?" My problem with DePalma's mimicry of...
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FrozenGhost wrote: Why does this thread remind me of what critic Stanley Kauffmann once said about Peter Bogdanovich: "The one thing we don't have to fear from him is originality?" My problem with...
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"They (DePalma and Bogdonivich) both seemed to be crushed by the weight of what Harold Bloom called the Anxiety of Influence. " Bogdonovich might agree. I'v meet him before and he said the many of the...
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jjonathanbarnett wrote: "They (DePalma and Bogdonivich) both seemed to be crushed by the weight of what Harold Bloom called the Anxiety of Influence. " Bogdonovich might agree. I'v meet him before and...
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FrozenGhost wrote: Why does this thread remind me of what critic Stanley Kauffmann once said about Peter Bogdanovich: "The one thing we don't have to fear from him is originality?" My problem with...
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Hollywood Gothique wrote:...Years ago I read a negative review of the film that cited pointed out something as a criticism but which I actually found interesting. This reviewer thought DePalma was...
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I saw Dressed To Kill in the theater (packed) when it came out. The audience seened to love the movie, screamed and laughed appropriately, at all the right moments. I thought it worked well, had no...
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