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Actors: Alain Delon, Richard Conte, Carla Gravina, Marc Porel, Roger Hanin, Umberto Orsini
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Big Guns |
BIG GUNS (Tony Arzenta), sometimes called "No Way Out" in the U.S., is a French-Italian production directed by Duccio Tessari in 1973.
Tony Arzenta is a hitman for the mafia. When he decides to retire, his boss Nick Gusto tries to dissuade him from doing something he could regret. A few days later, Arzenta's wife and kid are accidentally killed in the criminal explosion of his car. While the mafia is vainly trying to eliminate him, Tony starts to take revenge on the main bosses of the criminal organization.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Big Guns |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- Mafia conflict
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals killing each other
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- killer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
City?
Yes
City:
- rude people
Misc setting
- moving train
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- crushed
- flamed
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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