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...oddity: Bogart and Cagney as cowboys, so to speak. Bogart runs the House of Entertainment and wears the black hat; Cagney, though an outlaw, wears a white one. The first time I saw The Oklahoma Kid, I predicted I would finally see Cagney speak his memorable line ("You dirty rat. You killed my brother.") at the end of the last reel. But he doesn't, and my Cagney Fan Club sources tell me he never said it in any movie...
...least mark found its place in a (to us) bewildering set of classifications, each with a name: lutestring stroke, olive (pit) stroke, spring-silkworm-spitting-silk stroke; hanging-creeper dots, rat-foot dots, and some 21 kinds of ts'un or "texture wrinkle," including something called the tan-wo-ts'un or "pellet (as dropped into mud) whirlpool (eddies) texture." If this sounds pedantic, it should be seen in context: the Chinese belief that any stroke (like any character) was a unit of meaning, virtually a work of art; and that the picture could be as much...
...dialogue built around an idiom of cliches, and so laid himself open to charges of amateurishness. But there is nothing naive about the feeling for conditioned response and social context in the characterizations here. Scorsese, Robert de Niro and others give the streets a searing energy, a rat's den's sense of confinement, that drives people to self-destruct. The whole surface of this picture quivers with a violence on the edge of explosion...
Sleeper still has Allen deactivating the fuses of an audience's most fiendishly paranoiac fantasies. But there's much more of the awareness that the world's crazy, not him. His savvy comes from the city rat's instinct for survival. He knows that the witty things he says are idiotic and absurd, but he also knows that they are a defense mechanism. In 2173 he can roll sophisticated eyes at the lifestyle of the futuristic zombies that surround him, no matter how much they intimidate him. He's more cynical than they are, which becomes a heroic trait...
...seems to have bred a kind of giant carnivorous rat that will eat all the live stock Down Under, unless 007 can foil her. Will he succeed? If Pearson's first reincarnation does, the answer will surely come in good time...