Mega64 Movie Club: The Untouchables
THE KEVIN COSTNER SAGA CONTINUES... Sean Connery? Prohibition? The Scarface director? Bangin' music score? What's NOT to love in THE UNTOUCHABLES? We both watched this movie for the first time and went all-in on our thoughts on this 80's gangster flick.
Next week's episode: Garrett joins us for TRAINSPOTTING.
Comments (6)
The stroller going down the stairs had been referenced countless times you’re correct Shawn. But the scene in The Untouchables is actually also a reference. The original is from a very important Soviet Silent Film from 1925 called “Battleship Potemkin”. It’s shown a lot in film classes because it shows how it’s director Sergei Essenstien was very innovative when it came to montage editing. It’s actually very gripping for such an old movie because it’s surprisingly fast paced. The most famous sequence is called “the Odesa steps sequence” in which some Czarist Russian Soldiers attack some innocent civilians on a giant set of stairs. It’s very chaotic and amongst the chaos the stroller moment happens very similarly to how it happens in the Untouchables. De Palma just thought it would fit into the scene well and so he did a little homage.
Great movie, Costner 80's-90's run was fucking insane. Always struck me how much Scorsase, Spielberg, and Coppola lauded De Palma. Dude was the modern Hitchcock.
Movie Club has always been missing Garrett! A very welcome addition
If Untouchable-heads are looking for another great movie about police corruption definitely check out the Aussie miniseries “Blue Murder”
garret and trainspotting FUCK YEAH
This movie whips