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Actors: Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bound |
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If Thelma and Louise were lesbians, and got away with their deeds, you'd have “Bound.” Corky (Gershon), who prefers the “James Dean look,” is handy at plumbing and carpentry as well as crime. Violet (Tilly), the beauty next door, lives symbiotically with mobster Caesar (Pantoliano), “they don't call it ‘Mafia' anymore; it's just ‘the business.'” Violet seduces Corky in a beautiful love scene which leads to a scheme to steal “$2.176 million” of mob money, a plan based largely on trust and their growing love for each other. But when Violet makes a tactical blunder, all bets are off as Caesar fears mob retribution and everyone involved showing up with a gun (or at least one torture device). But, thinking as one, Corky and Violet prove more quick-witted than the men.
--Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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Corky (Gina Gershon) is an ex-con with a knack for theft. Violet (Jennifer Tilly) is the girlfriend of mob money launderer Ceasar (Joe Pantoliano). Violet, whose talent is seduction, seduces Corky and convinces her to steal two million dollars from the mob. Through their twisted love story, you see the great trust the women had for each other and their search for a new purpose in life.
--TJ, Resident Scholar
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A young woman named Corky (GERSHON)is renovating an apartment in a Mafia owned building, when she is seduced by Violet (TILLY), the wife of mob-man Ceasar(PANTOLIANO)next door. They plot to steal two million dollars from the mob.
--Sara Kerr, Resident Scholar
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A wonderful film by the Wachowski Bros., Bound is one of those movies that will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the whole movie. A tough,but sexy female excon, corky(gina gershon) moves into a mafia owned building to renovate an apartment. Her new sexy seductress neighbor Violet (jennifer tilly) lives with her boyfriend Ceaser (joe pantoliano) who is in the mafia. Violet wants to leave Ceaser for Corky. Violet and Corky get together and come up with this plan to rip off 2 million dollars of the mobs money... And plan to run off together. As soon as they get the money, their perfect plan starts to fall apart, and in the end the whole movie becomes a whom-can-you-trust showdown...
--Tiff, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bound |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 13.3%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 66.7%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- white collar fraud/theft
Kind of story:
- lesbians!!!!
Blackmail & Seduction
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- Mafia conflict
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals stealing from other criminals
- criminals killing each other
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/butch/lez (woman)
Body type
- skinny (woman)
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
- 80%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- Chicago
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- lesbians!
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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