Great death scenes
Let's see... Off the record, on the Q. T., and very hush-hush! With Danny De Vito, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger in a single movie, we have to expect something good, and fortunately L. A. Confidential managed to deliver. The movie is very controversial, showing what the cops are really up to internally... links to crime syndicates, taking laws into their own hands, etc. Russell Crowe is of course, being himself... the hot-tempered S. O. B. who would punch any baddies (especially those who beat women.) Hey, come to think about temper, he did throw his cellphone once towards a hotel employee sometime back out of frustration. Well, that's in real life... anyway, back to the movies... Russell plays officer Bud White, tough guy who has brains (wow!) but didn't know he had those until somewhere at the end of the movie. Then there is this guy with the classic nerdish, schoolboy hairstyle (Guy Pearce) who plays Lt. Ed Exley. He is the most straight-forward, too honestly good, non-bribe-taking cop in da office who would disagree and snitch on any cops that do anything against the law. There are more characters in the movie but these are the two who would be the so called heroes at the end of the movie.
When I watched this movie, it reminded me a lot of The Negotiator because Ron Rifkin and Kevin Spacey were in there too. Furthermore, the conspiracy and twisted plot of the movie is almost like The Negotiator's, but of course L. A. Confidential came first before it. Kevin Spacey plays Jack Vincennes, a cop who would help Danny Devito (Sid Hudgens, magazine reporter) to get news for his 'Hush-Hush' magazine in return for some dough. In this movie, i would say that Spacey just won himself an Oscar for best death scene. Reminds me of how Colin Farrell died in Minority Report... hmmm.... Danny also died , he is something like Eric Tsang in Curry and Pepper, although he didn't die the same way, but it felt like him.
I would say that L. A. Confidential is a good movie because it has many good actors playing cool characters, a well-written story with twisted plot and conspiracies which links together well in the end and some John Woo gun battle at the end. Talking about the John Woo gun battle... this is really interesting. Why? Because it really did copy some John Woo gun battle scenes! Especially the last part where Captain Dudley (the rotten captain of the police team) was about to surrender to the police. Our friend Ed Exley decided to put a bullet into him (check out the A Better Tomorrow ending)... ain't it the same thing? Even the surrounding looks pretty familiar indeed.
Kim Basinger... I haven't got anything much to say about her because I don't really like her in any movies... so I'll pass.
That's all I got for L. A. Confidential... but below are 5 of my favourite movies for the best death scenes by gunshot I've ever seen. Enjoy!
1) The Godfather (the toll booth scene death - 100 bullets sprayed? - copied by Chow Yuen Fat in A Better Tomorrow)
2) The Godfather II (Don Fanucci - killed by Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) )
3) L. A. Confidential (Jack Vincennes - Kevin Spacey death)
4) Unforgiven (Gene Hackman's death by Clint Eastwood)
5) A Better Tomorrow II - Chow Yuen Fat vs. Sunglasses Assassin (the one who killed Leslie Cheung a.k.a. Ah Kit) |
