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Actors: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Burt Young, Gig Young, Bo Hopkins, Arthur Hill, Tom Clancy
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Killer Elite |
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THE KILLER ELITE is a movie directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1975.
Caan and Duvall are two friends working for a company specialized in dirty jobs. For instance, the company is often hired by the C.I.A. in order to protect V.I.P. during a limited period of time. One day, Duvall, bribed by the other side, kills the man they were guarding and shoots Caan in the elbow and the knee, making him a crippled. After a hard training, Caan, dreaming of revenge against his friend, comes back in the business and is assigned to the protection of an opposition leader of an asian country. Asian ninjas, trained by Duvall, soon attack Caan's team who can't trust his employer anymore.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Killer Elite |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding an assassin
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- killer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) bald
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Water?
Yes
Water:
- warship
- sail boat
City?
Yes
City:
- San Francisco
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- guns
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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