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Bound (1996) - Trailer Included
Bound
Bound (1996) was the movie that assured the brothers who wrote and directed it - Andy and Larry Wachowski - their next movie; the very ambitious first part of a trilogy called The Matrix. And fair enough, as Bound is a most impressive feature debut (less impressive is their previous screenplay, the awful Assassins).
Bound is a nu-noir, a modern gangster tale, told in tight economical form with lashings of style and wit, and healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) splashings of ultra-violence. There’s also some hot and heavy petting between the moll and the femme fatale, which gives Bound a chic lipstick lesbian meets butch dyke edge. Bold, but the brothers pull it off.
Gina Gershon as Corky
Jennifer Tilly as Violet
Bound is a superbly constructed screenplay that slowly tightens the knot and screw in classic Hitchockian tradition, except this is more lurid and nastier than what Hitchcock would’ve produced, although it owes much to the master of suspense in its visual stylistics and plot devices. Even the uber-stylish opening title credit sequence would have made Hitchcock titles regular Saul Bass nod with warm approval.
Joe Pantoliano as Caeser
Lemme kiss it better baybee
Lipstick and leather, tatts and stilettos
Bound is a movie that was aged well, and rewards from repeat viewings. Grab some mates, grab a bottle of smoky whiskey (Glenlivet is the movie’s malty slug), ease back into the sofa, and wrap yourself up in Bound.
Here's the original movie trailer:
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Also nice that the Wachowski brothers (well they were then) didn't get sidetracked by the lesbian storyline. I thought they really built the tension perfectly. When I first realised where the story was going I'll admit to thinking that they were going to try to gloss over the lack of storyline with a few titillating girl on girl scene's (which lets face it many movie studios would have done!).
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post, cheers mate, I'm enjoying writing a few non-horror movie reviews for JD ...
Wachowski Bro are a strange pair.
Some good movies, some excellent.
So far only Ghost Ship really sucks.
Horrorphile
This is well worth checking out, right up your alley. It's a lean style with sharp, but not too ostentatious, visual stylings.
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Check this out...
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erm, it was an ok movie, loved the ending 'Caeser, you don't know shit' *bang*, bot besides that it was iffy.
Dunno what I disliked about it, it was just kind of empty.
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Horrorphile
Armenta, yeah, definitely Hitchcockian moments ...
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...here's what happens now with me, after I read about such 'unique' films...
I go away and let all this wonderful information sink in.
Not sure I really like the whole ultra-violence thing, I let fate decide. What that means is that, if I am at the video store and this film title "jumps at me," I'll remember this (excuse me) '...rather excellent review,' and hire it out... but otherwise, it is not ...um... I don't really know what... for me to go and hunt it down.
I hope that makes some sense ... and proof that your eloquence has been most useful.
I am enjoying your reviews...
Lilla ...
Flick Wit
I haven't seen this, but I'm always intrigued by Gina Gershon's mouth! I liked her in Face/Off.
This movie interests me, mostly for Gershon, but I think I have avoided it because of Tilly. She really irritates me in all her mainstream stuff.
Michaelie
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Michaelie, yes, that mouth!!! LOL ... She was good in Face/Off, true. Check out Prey for Rock'n'Roll though.
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Arguably the greatest of all the modern noirs and easily the best film by the Wachowski brothers...Gina is something very special too and Joe steals the show.