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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Z You have to love these one letter titles. I think one test for the quality of a movie database search engine is to look up the title of this movie or maybe Fritz Lang's M and see how well it handles that. Spout actually fails in this area, but I think most people here are aware that even though they have a large database of titles, the search engine still has some shortcomings. I had to look up the names of the directors in order to find these titles. Anyways Z was a movie that I had a somewhat difficult time following at first. All of the information coming at me. I had a difficult time at first recognizing the political context of the world I was entering. I didn't know who was on what side, and how they were related, and what they stood for. I didn't realize that Z was based on a novel that was based on real events. After a while it pi "
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M for Marvelous Peter Lorre
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"I've always loved Petter Lorre in just about anything, this is definately no exception. I actually think this is one of his best performances, showing he can do high drama as well as some of his comedic roles in other movies. It is about a town that has a serial killer on the lose who kills young children, the police have a crackdown on every aspect of crime and the crime bosses are tired of being constantly harrassed so they decided to find the killer themselves and give him a (actually a pretty fair) trial. This film also shows the mentality of people when something like this happens, almost like the Salem Witch hunts (every man that even stops to talk to a child gets accused and beatten). There were times I almost felt sorry for the killer and how he could not control his tendencies, but I still wanted him to be torn apart and hoped he would not be saved...anyway, it's a great movie and really interesting. "
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M (Fritz Lang)
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"Amazing. I've heard so many compliments about this, and now that I've finally seen M, I can pile on! Here's a brain dump...I've seen Peter Lorre, but this is hands down the best performance I've seen of his. Well, aside from those Warner Bros cartoons where he mixed it up in animated form. What a great sicko.The emotional tugging by Fritz Lang was pretty effective. There are a few minutes when you feel for his plight. But not in the sense that you want him off the hook -- just that he would be properly tried, not subject to vigilante violence. Still, it's hard to separate yourself from the mob mentality when you KNOW the guy is guilty. Today's juries so quickly tuck murderers away without the death penalty, and sometimes without lifetime jail sentences. M deserves to die. But not at the hands of a mob. "
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"I remember watching Peter Lorre films since I was a kid. He is one of my favorite character actors. The part he plays in M, I feel is very complex. A man who is so incredibly evil, and yet we feel sorry for him towards the end. I think for me it is one of those situations where I see a horrible person stripped of everything, and then the humanity sets in. And Peter Lorre plays it so well. The scene that I am referring to is at the end where the police and the town’s criminals both are chasing him through the town. The Criminals catch up with him in a warehouse. It is here where Peter Lorre delivers a heartfelt and emotional monologue about not wanting to do the things he does. It is at this point where I begin to feel for him, even though he has done the most hideous things to the children in this town. It’s almost scary that performance is able to do that to us. "
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Fritz Lang's M
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"M One of the basics of screenwriting is to establish the hero's world in your story and then throw off that world's equilibrium. Dorothy loses her dog, Luke loses his droids, and Dumbo's born with a birth defect. In Fritz Lang's M, a little German town has a serial killer on the loose. Made in 1931, M established many conventions that would become staples in the Psychological Thriller genre. However, unlike most of the pioneering films of its time, M's value isn't only in its historical significance because it's still more terrifying than most serial killer movies put out today. I have to applaud Lang for realizing so early that horror happens in the imagination. That realization has unfortunately not carried over into many of today's psychological thrillers. Silence of the Lambs is one of the few exceptions. Jonathan Demme (dir. of Lambs) uses the darkest recesses of our minds to fill in what Hannibal Lector is capable of instead of showing it on screen. When Ridley S ... "
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