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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 121 minutes
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On this episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha continue their Paul Newman and Robert Redford film exploration as they wrap up their discussion of the 1973 Best Picture winner THE STING. From director GEORGE ROY HILL, this classic caper film also costars Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, Harold Gould and host of other fantastic character actors. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, it won seven of them including Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay for David S. Ward, Best Score for Marvin Hamlisch and more. Steve and John go scene by scene thru this movie and explore the acting, direction, the writing and the effect the film has on us today.
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0:00.0 | I just won't learn will you? |
0:02.0 | I just come in here I teach you stuff that maybe five guys in the whole world no |
0:06.0 | that most grifters couldn't do even if they knew it and all you want to do is run down a bullet. |
0:10.0 | I'm asking a couple of days that's all and I can stay clear that long. |
0:14.0 | They'll probably miss you and hit me. |
0:27.4 | Hello and welcome once again to the cinnophiles where we are continuing our deep dive into the sting my name is Steve Morris. I'm a filmmaker |
0:30.7 | directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. |
0:33.0 | Hello, everyone, my name is John Roca, I'm a writer producer and host and voiceover guy here in San Diego, California. |
0:40.0 | And I love con movies. Let me just start off there. I just always have and I know I said it in part one, but I really think |
0:48.0 | this is a good way to look at the human condition and learn about writing and acting because it's all writing and acting in here. |
0:54.8 | This is going to be a fun conversation because I kind of feel like the movie falls apart a little bit in the second half of the film and I think this is why I don't love it as much as Butch Cassidy in the second half of the film and I think this is why I don't love it as much as |
1:03.4 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and I and we're watching it again for our show I feel even more |
1:08.7 | clear about what what works for me and what doesn't work for me in the second half of the movie. |
1:15.9 | So this will be a fun discussion to have as we go along because I still think it's a damn good movie |
1:19.4 | and obviously the best picture winner. |
1:21.2 | But there are some things good looking, watching it this time around, |
1:24.0 | they kind of stood out even more for me that I've always felt about the film. |
1:27.0 | So, you might be surprised to hear me say that I kind of, I understand what you're saying, and I kind of I understand what you're saying and I kind of agree and I also go |
1:37.2 | I in this weird way I think the thing that you're talking about which will my guess is that it'll be around the same areas that I would |
1:44.0 | feel probably are necessary to give us what it gives us in the end right right right there |
1:50.7 | is a there's a driftiness to the movie. |
1:53.3 | Yeah. |
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