Finally saw Brick

And I liked it. The film was discussed here a few months ago, so I
won't go into a synopsis. I'll just say it worked for me -- I thought
it was hilarious to hear Raymond Chandler dialogue coming out of the
mouths of (standard movie 20-something) high school students. All the
noir cliches were there, from the femme fatale to the evil crime boss to
the hard-boiled gumshoe to the stalwart sidekick to the muscle-bound
thug in love with the beautiful dame (whose name, sadly, wasn't Velma).
The movie made me laugh because it was played so straight: film noir in
a modern high school. Read this:

"I don't want you to come kicking in my homeroom door because of
something I didn't do."

When spoken by a Philip Marlowe-type character, that's a very funny line.

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Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

Bill Anderson wrote:

> And I liked it. The film was discussed here a few months ago, so I
> won't go into a synopsis. I'll just say it worked for me -- I thought
> it was hilarious to hear Raymond Chandler dialogue coming out of the
> mouths of (standard movie 20-something) high school students. All the
> noir cliches were there, from the femme fatale to the evil crime boss to
> the hard-boiled gumshoe to the stalwart sidekick to the muscle-bound
> thug in love with the beautiful dame (whose name, sadly, wasn't Velma).
> The movie made me laugh because it was played so straight: film noir in
> a modern high school. Read this:
>
> "I don't want you to come kicking in my homeroom door because of
> something I didn't do."
>
> When spoken by a Philip Marlowe-type character, that's a very funny line.

I saw this movie a few months back. After I came to the realization of
what they were doing with the dialogue and the character types, and that
it wasn't going to be some eerie murder mystery, I came to see the
dialogue as a gimmick. Not only that, it was hard to follow without
subtitles. I made it to the end, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I
thought I would.

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