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mariocki · 8 months ago

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Cape Fear (1991)

"Let's get something straight here. I spent fourteen years in an eight by nine cell, surrounded by people who were less than human. My mission in that time was to become more than human. You see? Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking."

#cape fear #1991 #american cinema #martin scorsese #wesley strick #john d. macdonald #robert de niro #nick nolte #jessica lange #juliette lewis #joe don baker #robert mitchum #gregory peck #martin balsam #illeana douglas #fred thompson #zully montero #james r. webb #elmer bernstein #freddie francis #Scorsese fully channelling de Palma for this queasy Southern gothic remake of a beloved bit of Americana kino. this was actually meant to #be a Spielberg project (yeesh can you imagine?) but Marty traded him Schindler's List which worked out better for everyone. initial #reaction to seeing Marty's right hand arm de Niro as the antagonist was‚ admittedly‚ to snigger but give the man his dues he fully embodies #this grotesque‚ repellent boogeyman. crucially tho he has the seed of a genuine grievance against Nolte's (also fairly unlikeable) lawyer #lead and i think that's what really propels this script. the film is stacked with great performances‚ with a young J Lewis really #standing out in a layered and thoughtful performance. the cameos by prev Cape Fear stars are perhaps a tiny bit gratuitous (and it's kind #of sad that Peck's final role was little more than a brief meta injoke) but i get why and it doesn't detract too much from the film‚#particularly once it lurches full throttle into a biblical tinged flood and fire apocalypse for the (very well executed) final act #ott stuff and boundary pushing not just in its freakier moments but in its commitment to underscoring tension with moments of near pure #comedy‚ but i had a great time with this. oh and what a score! i mean i think it's just a re arrangement of the og score but still it slaps

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