#brick film

[beyondthespider]

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths in LEGO! | The Batman Animated...

[pintsizeddeepthoughts]

25 of 250: Favorite Film Reviews - Brick

Not long ago, work colleagues and I got into a discussion about what our favorite films were. Given my categorical nature I could not resist writing down a list and, as a writing challenge, have decided to write 250 word reviews of my favorite 25 films of all-time. Note: these are my favorite films, not what I think are the best films of all time.

Directed by: Rian Johnson

Written by: Rian Johnson

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Hass, Emilie de Ravin

Year/Country: 2005, United States

Genre reinventions and mashups are always risky. If the reinvention is not reverent to its source material enough, devotees will revolt; if the mashup is unbalanced, then the product will be ridiculed. These are the headwinds facing writer/director Rian Johnson’s Brick, a 1940s-esque film noir set in a 1990s California high school where everyone talks like Humphrey Bogart. If that sounds nuts, it is, but Johnson has several aces up his sleeve that turns the absurd into the sublime.

The story tells of the murder of Emily (Emilie de Ravin). Before her death she calls her ex-boyfriend, the arrogant, intelligent Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), frightened about being blamed for “bad brick” that has laid a seedy drug dealer low. Later she tells Brendan to forget it, but after her murder he cannot. So he sets out to not only discover who pulled the trigger but also who put her in front of the gun.

Did I mention this takes place in a high school? And that the characters recite lines like, “Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.” And it works. It works because Johnson has faith in it, Gordon-Levitt sells its seriousness, and the audience revels in its chutzpah. Johnson would go on to revive the detective genre with his Knives Out series, but it’s arguable we would not have Benoit Blanc without the success of Brick.

[iwannapushthebutton]

Brick (2005)

dir.: Rian Johnson

dop: Steve Yedlin

[k-wame]

PAUL NEWMAN as Brick Pollitt Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) dir. Richard Brooks

[stone-cold-groove]

The Emerald City.

[hellish-cruelty]

Who are you callin' busted, buster?

Blade Runner 2049 (2017), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Hereditary (2018), The Darjeeling limited (2007), Chinatown (1974), Breaking Bad (2008 - 2013), Titane (2001), After Hours (2020), L.A. Confidential (1997), Brick (2005)

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dream blunt rotation

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"Do you know what nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent, personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt...

...me."

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Brick (2005) dir. Rian Johnson

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Taiwan, 1999 Sanshia, Taiwan. 台湾 新北市 三峡区 三峡老街 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

[beyondthespider]

Officer Balls But in LEGO

[lesmisscraper]

All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. Exelmans quitted the procession. - Volume 4, Book 10, Chapter 3

So in the 2012 film, Marius got the 'Man on Horseback' role instead right?

[williammarksommer]

Bottle Coke

Staring at the Sun series 

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Tmax 400iso

[k-wame]

PAUL NEWMAN as Brick Pollitt Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) dir. Richard Brooks

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Brick (2005) | dir. Rian Johnson