It is clear that he doesn’t entirely understand what she is thinking or planning but I think we are given enough information to make our own judgments of her character and get a sense as to where she is headed. Well, I guess that will be my next one. 1280 is his masterpiece, I’d argue. [11], "In the Desert, a Jim Thompson Novel Blossoms on Film", "Coachella Valley Feature Film Production 1920–2011", Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=After_Dark,_My_Sweet&oldid=971260007, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 August 2020, at 01:37. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=After_Dark,_My_Sweet&oldid=2269113, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Yet again, here I go reviewing a film from a while back('90). Directed by James Foley. ( Log Out /
After Dark, My Sweet is a 1990 film about an ex-boxer who is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. Together, they visit a place where desire and pain are indistinguishable, and everything goes twistingly awry.
However, I just saw this again and had t give it a mention. They will kidnap the son of a wealthy family and ransom him back to them. Jul 05, 2014. Doc takes a personal interest in Collins that might include a physical attraction as well.
The ending works because it feels earned and properly hinted at in various points throughout the novel. It makes for pretty compelling reading, particularly once we get a solid handle on what the nature of the conflict between the characters will end up being. After Dark, My Sweet is a 1990 American neo-noir[2] crime thriller film directed by James Foley and starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, and Rachel Ward. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I'd like to correct an erroneous impression you seem to have about me. "[8], When the video was released in 1991, Entertainment Weekly film critic Melissa Pierson wrote: "Fittingly, director James Foley (At Close Range) puts style over story, capturing the gritty, long-shadowed tone of his source material. Others will disagree, but TKIM is a book that held me rapt even as I longed to look away. Fay is a mean drunk and cuts a rather sad figure, though I could understand why Collie was drawn to her. Thompson creates a fascinating power struggle between Collie and Bud as the two men wrestle to take hold of the situation when things begin to turn bad. "[9], In an interview with Robert K. Elder for his book The Best Film You've Never Seen, director Austin Chick praises the movie for its cinematography, stating: "It's beautifully shot ... every frame and every camera move is clearly thought out and brilliantly, beautifully executed. The dynamics between these three conspirators is what drives the novel forward and provides the chief source of interest rather than the plot itself which is, in contrast, relatively simple. It seems a simple enough idea and Bud assures them that he will be able to leverage his contacts on the force to help them stay ahead of the law. Thompson does a splendid job of creating different, distinct points of contention and suspicion between the three characters, setting up a situation where it seems disaster is imminent. In fact you might say that the story contains remarkably little incident. In the comments section of my Nothing More Than Murder review he suggested that I should make this an early read and because he is a man who knows (and rates) his Thompson, I knew well enough to listen to him. I may sound like I am, but I'm really not. There are no great shocks, even in the resolution, but the writing has a wonderfully direct quality that just drew me in and fascinated me. "[7], Peter Travers of The Rolling Stone wrote: "Patric is sensational as Collie; the pretty-boy actor ... is unrecognizable behind Collie's coarse stubble, slack jaw and haunted stare. After Dark, My Sweet looks simultaneously crisp and drenched in the yellow light of a strange dream, an effect that becomes especially haunting on video. He is self-aware enough to know that he needs help but risks falling into difficult situations by being unable to read others well. He's drawn into a kidnapping scheme concocted by a former cop (Bruce Dern) and a sultry widow (Rachel Ward, for whom acting apparently means gesticulating).
TKIM is as close as anyone was ever going to get to that book, and therefore a masterpiece in anyone else’s oeuvre. ( Log Out / After Dark, My Sweet is a 1990 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by James Foley and starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, and Rachel Ward.It is based on … One of the things that I have found most exciting about Thompson’s writing is his ability to create compelling and complex characters to narrate his stories.
[4], Film critic Roger Ebert put this on his "Great Movies" list and wrote in his Chicago Sun-Times review: "After Dark, My Sweet is the movie that eluded audiences; it grossed less than $3 million, has been almost forgotten, and remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern film noir. They clash over several aspects of the plan and it is clear that they do not trust each other and have different visions of how their situation will end, setting things up for a pretty explosive conclusion. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. He is confident, in part because of his aforementioned ties to the police force, but also because he thinks he is the smartest person in the room. Change ). "[5], Variety also received the film favorably: "Director-cowriter James Foley has given this near-perfect adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel a contempo setting and emotional realism that make it as potent as a snakebite...Lensed in the arid and existential sun-blasted landscape of Indio, Calif, the pungently seedy film creates a kind of genre unto itself, a film soleil, perhaps. After Dark, My Sweet hit the source material squarely in its dark, dark heart.
That is definitely high on my list for obvious reasons. Patric occupies a complex character with mesmerizing conviction. An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital.
It captures above all the lonely, exhausted lives of its characters. Instead the bulk of the book focuses on the way those few incidents affect the relationships between the characters and cause them to change the way they are interacting. With Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern, Rocky Giordani. Her uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.
This page was last edited on 12 July 2017, at 16:04. But then everything begins to go wrong when the boy gets sick…. Thompson simply had the fortitude to write two, and one of them has to nose just ahead…, Interesting! He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Resisting the urge to make a self-conscious period piece decked out with fedoras and old school slang, Foley and co-screenwriter Robert Redlin, smartly contemporized the 1955 story without sacrificing an ounce of its ill …
Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital.
Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The star of the show for me however was Uncle Bud, the man who plans this misguided operation. How the man who wrote that and Pop. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. "[6], Writer David M. Meyers praised the script: "The screenplay, which hews closely to Jim Thompson's heartless novel, is unusually tight, spare, and well constructed. 1280 isn’t worshipped as a god is almost beyond my comprehension. Collie, as William Collins prefers to be known, is a great case in point. The Killer Inside Me is, in my opinion, one of the finest and most brilliant pieces of fictional writing ever produced. Like Thompson's prose, his performance is both repellent and fascinating. Pop. In a desert town near Palm Springs he meets widow Fay Anderson who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her husband left and lets him sleep in a trailer out back, near her dying date palms. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. . He can be quite sensitive, being quick to anger when he feels he has become the butt of a joke or is being treated unfairly, but there is also a sense that he would like to find a place where he can fit in and be comfortable. you see, I'm not at all stupid. It is based on the 1955 Jim Thompson novel of the same name.[3]. Some crime stories feature fantastically complicated plots with multiple moving pieces involved but Bud’s plan is really quite simple. It perhaps isn’t quite as striking or appalling as Pop. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. He did that with Pop 1280 too. Audience Reviews for After Dark, My Sweet. Filming took place in Mecca, California,[3] part of the Coachella Valley.
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