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Actors: Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Josef Sommer
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Target |
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TARGET is a film directed by Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) in 1985.
Fifteen years ago, Walter Lloyd was a spy working for the C.I.A. in Europe. Now he and his family have got new identities and live a quiet life in Dallas, Texas. Walter's wife is kidnapped while on holiday in Paris. Walter and his son Chris take the plane to France and are soon the target of unknown killers.
As the French C.I.A. is unable to tell him who's responsible for his wife's kidnapping, Walter contacts his former boss who thinks that the person behind all that may be a former German spy -Schroeder- whose entire family was killed during a C.I.A. operation lead by Walter Lloyd when he was still active. Walter goes to East Berlin in order to meet Schroeder but still wonders why he's the target of killers who don't seem to work for the German spy.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Target |
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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 - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- terrorist kidnappers
The terrorist enemy is...
- spies
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
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)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- govt employee
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
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
- France
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- flamed
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
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