Warren Beatty
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Employing interviews with seniors looking back à la "Reds," Nolan gives us tales of life as it once was while tipping us off that it has continued, but his actual storytelling leaves us to fill in blanks.
It contains more echoes than we’re accustomed to from Nolan: I caught whiffs of E.T., Alien, Contact, Moon, (obviously) 2001, and (surprisingly) Reds, but those are just the most transparent ones.
(One of Nolan’s more eccentric flourishes involves intercutting the early scenes with interviews with Dust Bowl survivors, who function like the talking heads in Warren Beatty’s Reds .)
(Some of this scene-setting is accomplished via pseudo-documentary interviews with the elderly residents of some more distant future reflecting on their hardscrabble childhoods, which Nolan films like the “witness” segments from Warren Beatty’s “Reds.”)
Her mistake in "Dick Tracy," I think, is that she frankly reaches back to Marilyn Monroe and tries make Breathless into a Monroe clone, right down to the lighting and costuming in some numbers, which seems inspired by Monroe in " Some Like It Hot ."
Borrowing tactics from the Warner Bros. promotional campaign that had turned Tim Burton's Batman into a cultural touchstone the previous year, Disney had spent months priming audiences for the movie event of the year.
1990: Looking to manufacture an event movie experience in the vein of 1989’s juggernaut, “Batman,” Disney was fairly shameless when it came to pimping their latest summer blockbuster, “Dick Tracy.”
Disney, releasing the film through its Touchstone Pictures division, plainly saw Dick Tracy as their big film of the summer of 1990; it seems more than a little likely that they in fact meant for it to be their answer to the previous year's Batman , in fact.
"Tracy" is Tinseltown's annual celebration of everything that's wrong with itself: the hype, the agent-negotiated star system, the Hollywood "fun" assembly-line method of copy-cat mediocrity, etc. "Tracy" has carbon-copied almost everything from last year's "Batman" model: Beatty = Keaton, Pacino = Nicholson, Madonna = Basinger, moody/cartoonish scenery = moody/cartoonish scenery, pop Prince on the soundtrack = pop princess Madonna on same.
Like Michael Keaton in "Batman," Beatty plays it cool, allowing the many goofball characters around him ?
…give him the exaggerated appearance of a Dick Tracy villain…
Bringing even less subtlety than he does playing a literal cartoon supervillain in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Domingo seems to channel Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice in Dick Tracy, and not just because of his wig and prosthetics.
Award-winning cinematographer Caleb Deschanel washes them all in the same gorgeous, golden tones that got him Oscar nominations for The Right Stuff , The Passion of the Christ , The Natural and The Patriot , making the whole film glow like a time capsule from a L.A.’s picture-postcard past.
…leading to unwieldy performances that recall the Warren Beatty (another actor-turned-director) boondoggle, “Dick Tracy.”
Its jumble of movie references, witting or otherwise, include Pennies from Heaven, Metropolis, and Dick Tracy, as well as the James Whale classics Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein…
Disappointingly, there’s no evidence to support early expectations that a tent-pole budget would enable Gondry to unleash his skills and imagination on a superhero flick, to create a commercial hit with artistic integrity of the likes of Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy (1990) or Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2009).
The guy he’s sent to rub out turns out to be English martial arts star Scott Adkins, who’s made up to look like one of the villains from Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy.
Le Carmine Falcone de Turturro et le Oswald Cobblepot de Colin Farrell, auraient pu tous deux trouver leur place dans le Dick Tracy de Warren Beatty (1990), tout particulièrement Colin Farrell grimé en personnage aux antipodes du sex-symbol qu’il est.
Certainly Speed Racer's palate has a brilliant visual kick, marked by eye-popping primary colors cribbed liberally from Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy.
Even the comic-strip and comic-book movies — Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy, Tim Burton’s Batman — had a piety-free pop edge.
Once you get past the movie's opening eruptions of visual excess — hundreds of party guests boozing and hollering and doing the Charleston; CGI cityscapes that visualize 1920s New York by way of Warren Beatty's candy-colored " Dick Tracy "; a long expository talk between Gatsby and Nick in a careening computer-buffed roadster that moves as believably as the talking cab in " Who Framed Roger Rabbit " — "The Great Gatsby" settles into a traditional groove: scene, scene, montage, scene, burst of violence, moment of reflection.
Not since Warren Beatty’s bold, but failed 1998 political satire Bulworth has an American film legend played such an anti-PC character.
The next, Daffy Duck is wandering through a Dick Tracy pastiche.
Unlike the lead-balloon adaptations "Josie and the Pussycats" and Warren Beatty's "Dick Tracy," "Scooby-Doo" knows when to take itself seriously and when to laugh at itself - even if its audience isn't laughing along at every gag.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
Directed by Cathy Yan
influenced by Dick Tracy (1990)
Visuals
Like some surreal mashup of Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon , Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy , Johnnie To’s The Heroic Trio and Rachel Talalay’s Tank Girl , much of the motion picture moves at such a brazen, unapologetically fevered pace I found it difficult to catch my breath.
Especially when The Grifters, another adaptation of a cult novel featuring John Cusack, looked and felt like a humorless version of Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy.
Coming off as a cross between a young Robert De Niro and a deadly-serious Big Boy Caprice (the malapropism-prone gangster played by Al Pacino in Dick Tracy), Day-Lewis commands every scene in which he appears, and haunts most scenes in which he doesn’t.
Hong Kong arthouse director Wong Kar-Wai's stylish and mesmerizing 1995 follow-up to his delightful, indescribable 1994 film Chungking Express can best be described as that film's flip side, following characters on the criminal end as opposed to the police officers in Chungking .
Shampoo (1975)
Directed by Hal Ashby
influenced Bulworth (1998), Rules Don't Apply (2016)
Characters
If the recent Bulworth (1998), directed by Beatty, is any indication, he could have pumped some life into this thing.
Beatty's performances—especially in projects like Shampoo , Reds, or Bugsy in which his own creative hand has flexed considerably—always showcase the actor's generous sense of humor in lampooning his own image.
But, without a clearly defined narrative direction, Beatty seems stuck in "Shampoo" mode, relying on his character's earnest buffoonery to carry him through a series of public encounters that more or less say the same thing over and over and over.
As director, actor, producer and co-writer, Beatty has engineered a film as outrageous, cutting-edge and downright fun as Bonnie and Clyde and Shampoo, his gems of the 1960s and '70s.
After Beatty's first starring role in 1961's "Splendor in the Grass," his list of important movies continued to grow: "Bonnie and Clyde," "Shampoo," "Reds," "Heaven Can Wait," "Dick Tracy" and more.
Has he seen Bugsy (1991) or Dick Tracy (1990), much less Shampoo (1975), The Parallax View (1974) or the groundbreaking Bonnie and Clyde (1967)?