Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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Stop swearing

"Can we stop this before you go ahead any further? We can't have this kind of language in this film, to this degree." -- Warner Bros. honcho Alan Horn to Departed producer Graham King, having gotten a very clear idea from early dailies that no brakes were being applied whatsoever on the use of salty street patois ("ya muthah fucked me," etc.). (Quote passed along by King during Sunday's "Movers & Shakers" panel at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.)


Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 29, 2007 at 03:07 PM

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nemo [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

A man who has obviously never seen even one single Martin Scorsese movie in his entire life.

Posted by nemo [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2007 03:29 PM

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nemo [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

Hell, even the first ten minutes of Scorsese's 1974 chick flick, "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", was full of choice nuggets like "Blow it out your ass" and "Don't look back or else you'll turn into a pillar of shit."

What planet does Alan Horn live on? Has he even been to a movie any decade recently? He must have thought he was producing "The Queen".

Posted by nemo [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2007 03:35 PM

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Terry McCarty [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

Is it safe to make a guess that Alan Horn probably had something to do with ALPHA DOG
going from New Line to Universal?

Posted by Terry McCarty [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2007 04:15 PM

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D.Z. [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

If they had a problem with language, why did they co-distribute the South Park movie?

Posted by D.Z. [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2007 07:10 PM

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donnyboy [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

So let me get this straight, he doesn't like the words that are (sniff, sniff) mean.

But reenactments of brutal physical violence are fine.


....ooooo-kaaaaaaaaaaayy.........that makes sense.

Posted by donnyboy [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2007 12:20 AM

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