Brute Force (1947)
Directed by Jules Dassin
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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The Last Castle, in other words, is a scene-by-scene retelling of Jules Dassin's classic prison drama Brute Force, except The Last Castle isn't making a worthy statement about resisting the Nazi state.
That carnival atmosphere comes off as a fragrant bouquet of patronizing pap that revels in its sordidness yet feels curiously naïve--"Oz" by a creative team that doesn't appear to know that the bar on prison dramas has been raised since Brute Force.
El convite de Darabont puede basarse en la novela corta Rita Hayworth y la Redención de Shawshank ( Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption ), del querido King, publicada en su recordada antología Las Cuatro Estaciones ( Different Seasons , 1982), un claro ejemplo de su humanismo descarnado y truculento más cercano al drama que al terror estándar, no obstante el director y guionista lee al asunto, en esencia un retrato seco de la mediocridad y el salvajismo de prisión que deriva en cansancio existencial, un proyecto de fuga y una lenta ejecución del plan de turno, como una especie de popurrí con aire de “grandes éxitos” de ingredientes tomados prestados de una retahíla interminable de películas semejantes de encierro, angustia y necesidad imperiosa de evasión, cúmulo que abarca desde clásicos yanquis como Fuerza Bruta ( Brute Force , 1947), de Jules Dassin, Infierno 17 ( Stalag 17 , 1953), de Billy Wilder, Revuelta en el Bloque 11 ( Riot in Cell Block 11 , 1954), de Don Siegel, La Celda Olvid…
At the time Dassin had nearly a dozen American movies under his belt, including such respected noir films as “Brute Force” and “The Naked City.”
A rising director of hard-hitting film noir in the late 1940s (including 1947’s Brute Force and 1949’s The Naked City), he was named a communist and blacklisted during the HUAC hearings of the early 1950s, forcing him to flee to Europe, where his attempts to continue his filmmaking career were constantly undermined from abroad by pressure from the U.S. When he was offered the chance to direct Rififi, it was literally his last shot at maintaining a career, and he was richly rewarded with an international hit and a director’s award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Jules Dassin ("Rififi"/"Naked City") directs this hard-hitting but outdated crime drama concerned about prison conditions.