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I'm not sure about the revenge in Dr. Strangelove, North by Northwest or Animal House because of whether it's the principal motivation for the main characters. Dr. Strangelove is not really revenge, more an insane general wanting to stop the Soviets stopping putting fluoride in the American water system and protect Americans' "precious bodily fluids"! Not sure what you had in mind for North by Northwest, but my thoughts of the plot are Roger Thornhill trying to work out what happened to him when he was mistaken for George Kaplan, and the identity of that mysterious person. With Animal House I suppose you do have Dean Wormer's one-man mission to destroy Delta House and the revenge against Neidermeyer because of the pass he plays. That said, Revenge of the Nerds would fit the category better!
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revenge
Friday The 13th.(1980) Taxi Driver. (1976) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Unforgiven (1992) Fair Game (1986) Navajo Joe (1966) Get Carter (1971) The Horseman (2008) Hit Man (1972) Point Blank (1967 ) late entries- Shogun Assassin (1980) Vigilante (1982) White Line Fever (1975) Rolling Thunder (1977) Death Wish 3 (1985)
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Revenge then Fish Out Of Water I could have just put a load of violent tosh for Revenge you know . Ok ... if Strangelove doesn't fit the criteria .... Twilight's Last Gleaming then
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I suppose the Lionel Mandrake character tenuously fits the description because of his nationality and very matter of fact approach to life.
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REVENGE FILMS My top 10 with a few words of lessons from the film:
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Thanks to everyone who contributed a list of their favourite revenge films. It really shows the range and breadth of films with a revenge narrative, where the central characters are driven by revenge more than anything else. Just because I really enjoyed watching Mark Kermode analysing the genre last week, I thought it be good to revisit a topic we did a couple of years ago, but focusing entirely on heist movies rather than crime or cops and robbers in general. As a guide, please use this description from Rotten Tomatoes: Quote:
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Top 10 Heist Films Reservoir Dogs (1992) The League of Gentlemen (1960) Kelly's Heroes (1970) The Italian Job (1969) The Usual Suspects (1995) How to Steal a Million (1966) Rififi (1955) Robbery (1967) The First Great Train Robbery (1978) Payroll (1961)* |
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I would have gone for Heat and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three but neither are heist films in the sense of the definition in this weeks title post.
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I haven't seen Robbery, How to Steal a Million, The First Great Train Robbery or Payroll, so may have to do so this week. Since we last did a topic like this, I've seen The League of Gentlemen (a great heist movie) for the first time and Baby Driver was released.
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Heat was included in Mark Kermode's program, but it doesn't have the typical 'ingredients' of the gang coming together, sitting around and having the robbery explained to them, and is more focused on the rivalry between the main crook and his police counterpart than anything else.
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