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Actors: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Joe Sawyer
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Killing |
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THE KILLING is a movie co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1957. Dialogs written by Jim Thompson.
San Francisco. Sterling Hayden has just gone out of prison and is already planning to rob US$ 2,000,000.- from the local racetrack. Everything seems under control as Hayden and his associates carefully organize the attack. But Elisha Cook's wife, Marie Windsor, learns by her naive husband that he's on the verge of becoming extremely rich and gives the information to her no-good boy-friend who will begin to observe the group's movements.
A very good thriller from Stanley Kubrick with the well-known scene of the killing of the horse during the race.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Killing |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- law enforcement gone bad
If this is a criminal POV story...
- Armed robbery!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- wife/homemaker
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- ample chest and buttocks (woman)
unclothed?
- partially transparent clothes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- San Francisco
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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