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Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr., Clifton Collins Jr.
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Dirty |
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Officer Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) is a former gangbanger turned-LAPD. He and his partner, Officer Salim Adel (Cuba Gooding Jr.) are at odds because he suspects Sancho is prepared to reveal plans to steal money from drug dealers to Internal Affairs that would indict Adel and the captain of his department (Keith David). Sancho is further plagued by the shooting death of an innocent by-stander. He is haunted by this and strives to absolve himself of this crime.
Adel is a coarse character who has no love for his job. His disgust with the daily grind of dealing with crooks as well as honest citizens is clear -- he wears his name tag upside down --, but that is the least of his transgressions. He steals a cellular phone from someone who had simply asked the officers for directions. Later that day Adel fondles a young woman while harrassing young people in the Venice Beach area. The woman vows in Spanish to kill Adel.
On this same day that Sancho is to appear before Internal Affairs, a lieutenant (Cole Hauser) demands that the two cops take a large bag of evidence from custody to frame the competition for a local drug kingpin. Sancho has to carefully weigh his options in dealing with his partner, the department, the various criminals involved, and the array of probably deadly consequences that may befall him.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Dirty |
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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 - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- law enforcement gone bad
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- bulging muscles
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- guns
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Rap/hip-hop
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