Word: gangsterisms
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...George Lucas set the story in space (Star Wars); Robert Bresson made it austere (Lancelot of the Lake), and six English cutups made it funny (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) But Boorman has never been cowed by precedent or expectations. In Point Blank (1967), he twisted the gangster genre into a psychedelic ghost story. In Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), he torpedoed The Exorcist's bad-seed plot for a Mach 2 excursion into religious ecstasy...
...could ever get to it. No Frenchman could truly understand a city like L.A., and that, metaphorically at least, was what film noir was all about. The term was used to describe a slew of films, the likes of Double Indemnity or The Killers. which were stepchildren of earlier gangster movies but which now had a peculiarly fetid air to them--a heedless, languishing cynicism. Noir heroes always talked like they'd been to hell and back and found it was nothing compared to Southern. California. Noir's creed was that we were all small-time punks scheming...
...doors, broken elevators, roaches everywhere. And the streets and hallways are ruled by marauding youth gangs that police say number 100 in all. Squads of Cobra Stones live at Cabrini-Green, and they are in an almost constant state of war with the resident members of the Black Gangster Disciples. Most of the shootings stem from gang struggles over control of drug sales, prostitution and extortion...
...Banuri plays down his role in capturing outlaws in the tribal district of Pakistan because he says he doesn't want to be known for that. On one occasion, Banuri, as magistrate of the Malakand area, gathered a group of seven men and went posse-style after a local "gangster." The gangster had his own armed band but Banuri recalls, "We were more lucky than anything else. We went into a ravine and outflanked...
...well-tailored, gray Western suit with tight-fitting bell-bottom pants and pointed black shoes." Or Benefit-the-People Wang, by day a soldier in the People's Liberation Army, by night an exponent of the funky layered look. "From the chin up he looks like a gangster. From his neck to his knees he seems like an Englishman who has just stepped out of his neighborhood pub into the London fog. But below his knees, where his army pants emerge to meet his khaki sneakers, he looks Chinese. His costume-fedora, trench coat and army uniform-creates...