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Actors: Waren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Dick Tracy |
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This film was based on the popular Dick Tracy comic strips from the Sunday paper. Warren Beatty plays the private eye, and Madonna is brilliant as the entertainer he runs across. In addition, the movie pays tribute to the 1930s with its big-band soundtrack and vivid color schemes.
--Teddy, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Dick Tracy |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- gang conflict
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
- rude people
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- prison
- resort/hotel
- sewers/subways
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
How many deaths in film?
- 0 (not a murder mystery)
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 7 (a good amount)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to rescue
- mission to protect something
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
Is this movie based on a
- comics
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