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Actors: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Brad Dourif, John C. Reilly
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Nightwatch (1998) |
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NIGHTWATCH (1998) is the remake, made in Hollywood, of a danish movie Ole Bordenal had written and directed four years before in his native country. Bornedal was given the opportunity by Miramax to direct the remake of his own movie.
Ewan McGregor is a student who's just found a job as a night watchman at the local morgue. Meanwhile, the city is terrorized by a killer who has the habit to tear off the eyes of the prostitutes he murders. City cop Nick Nolte spends a lot of time in the morgue where he makes the acquaintance of McGregor.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Nightwatch (1998) |
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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 - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Murders of set profession?
- prostitutes/strippers/porn
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
Special suspect?
- best friend
Kind of mystery?
- amateur citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (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
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
Misc setting
- scientific labs
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Lot of special effects?
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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