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Actors: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacula, Brian Dennehy
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Gorky Park |
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Veteran Moscow police officer Arkady Renko (Hurt) is investigating the deaths of several individuals found in Moscow's Gorky Park. The three corpses are without faces or fingerprints, making identification an almost impossible task. One of the victims was wearing a pair of ice skates on her feet, belonging to an actress named Irina Asanova (Pacula). Renko meets and interrogates her, eventually falling in love with Asanova as he delves deeper into the mysterious killings. He is also interested in learning more about the background of John Osbourne (Marvin), an American businessman with tremendous clout. Renko's life is a bleak and thankless one as his wife treats him like a failure, the KGB threatens him with political retribution, and he feels as if someone has him under surveillance. With the help of a forensic re-constructer, he is able to put a human face on the skeletal remains, piecing together the events of the triple homicide, and is led to the killer and an illegal sable-breeding farm.
--David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Gorky Park |
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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 - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Murders of set profession?
- students
Special suspect?
- lover
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Romance
Yes
BIG focus on forensic evidence analysis?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
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
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Russia
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Misc setting
- scientific labs
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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