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Actors: Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Public Eye |
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In this film, Joe Pesci play a tabloid photographer named Leon Bernstein, branding the name the "Great Bernzini", leaving nothing censored. He gets no respect as a photographer as he is quite a sleazy man only in his work for the money rather than the art. In his car is a police scanner built in to inform news of crime, murder, anything similar that will lead to a feature story and picture on a newspaper. From there he to goes to the crime scene of a body before the police comes in and swarm the area. He has no beef with the mob or police and sits on the fence between the two groups. Until now.
A lady named Kay Levitz a rich widow of her late mobster husband owns a fancy nightclub in Manhattan and confide in Bernstein to help her out, looking for a particular mobster that claims he was once a partner with her deceased husband. He is easily taken aback by her looks and waste no time letting her in his world of photography showing her all the gritty images of his work. Mainly he is after the man she is looking for- but he finds him already dead. Bernstein informs the police of the gangster's death but is hold as a suspect to a crime he has never done, plus the FBI wants a piece about the man's murder.
This cause him great trouble as not only the police is after him but the mob as well. Bernstein become involve in the middle of gangwar with two groups of mobsters and conspiracy of a black market scheme hold by the government.
--Alicia M., Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Public Eye |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
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?
- 30%
Murders of set profession?
- criminals
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- artist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- fat (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing full frontal--women
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 5 (an average amount)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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