― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:42 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:48 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:48 (twenty years ago) link
Grabbed me the moment I saw it, that look. Amazing stuff. And oh yes, THE SCORE. But I'm going to catch some sleep and might ponder more on the morrow.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 07:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 07:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 07:34 (twenty years ago) link
The photography, the lighting, the editing...*raises hands helplessly*...can't add much beyond saying how astonishing it all was.
Two things about the ending struck me -- the final gunshot has the same impact and sense of setting/location (away from the camera/audience) as does The French Connection; Friedkin must have intended that as a nod. And finally, what I really liked about the absolute final camera shot/scene was that there were several different points where it could have ended, but that it turned out to be the longest and the least hopeful was something I wasn't expecting.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link
And we're fuckin' counting fuckin' Touch Of Evil in those? Yeah, I know it's canonical, but it's fuckin' great.
― Tiny Fuckin' Robot, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
Ned - you're so lucky to have found The Third Man used!
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
i did like how Bernard Lee played the British Sergeant, and later "M".
― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
I know, it was bugging me for a bit that I knew the actor but couldn't place him, even though Lee had a fairly distinct voice (though M did speak differently). And I have the first five Bonds on DVD as well!
There's all sorts of great movie love stuff in it, but taken as a whole it isn't all that special.
Hm, I'd have to think about that more after reviewing it sometime. Definitely worked as a first time experience, though I had guessed the exact nature of the 'third man' riddle about a third of the way in or so.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Tiny Fuckin Robot, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
What about the chase/action sequences filmed that way?
"You think I'm pursuing you! But I'm not!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
no, but i was psyched by all those tax-free dots down there!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link
― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link
― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 19 February 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link
― ArfArf, Thursday, 19 February 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link
Guy Hamilton, assistant director to Reed, director of Goldfinger and a couple of others later.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/valli/images/valli1-300.jpg
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
i was just thinking about how this one of the movies i could probably watch at any given time.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― ,,, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, pish.
A thread about "The Third Man" with no mention of Alida Valli!?!??!?!
It's worse that there's only passing mention of Graham Greene.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
I can recall either the Harry Lime theme or the Curb Your Enthusiasm music, but not both. If the wrong ones in my head I won’t find the other.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 30 September 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
They go together like a horse and carriage... I have the same with Curb Theme and "Love & Marriage"
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 30 September 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
I saw this film recently, while I was on holiday, in Vienna, with a friend who is a little bit obsessed with the film. I knew the twist already (Orson Welles isn't dead!) which spoilered it a little, but the atmosphere of the film, its twists and turns and odd moral logic and dark humour, was still deeply compelling. One of the things that affected me most deeply, was the way that the strange, atmospheric, ruined city of Vienna (with its weird twisting baroque statues and its shortcuts and its sewers) itself seemed to be a character in the film, as much as any of the humans.
We visisted a lot of scenes from the film - Harry Lime's house where the 'accident' took place; the infamous door with its baroque tat; we even went down the sewers - of course there is a Third Man Tour, where they will pull up the weird triangular covers and take you down into those passages and sewers and buried rivers and sluices where they actually filmed it (rats and all). It's an amazing, magical place - the film does a pretty good job of conveying just how creepy those sewers are. However, they don't adequately capture the smell!
I have photos of a lot of the sites, including the sewers, if anyone is interested in seeing them? But if you are ever in Vienna and love the film, the sewer tour is a real treat.
― Branwell with an N, Monday, 30 September 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
not many cities you can say that about
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 30 September 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
Paris?
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 September 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
Would love to see those photos!
― stet, Monday, 30 September 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
Love this film but I think I'd give a tour of the sewers a miss tbh.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Monday, 30 September 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
playing crpgs in my formative years means i would go on a sewer tour like a shot even if this movie didn't exist
would love to visit the site of the "accident", that's so neat branwell. def post pics
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Old man, you never should have gone to the poilce, you know.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
My server tonight is named Callahan, and my first thought was not Clint Eastwood.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 December 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
Calloway. I'm not Irish.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 December 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
i don't want another murder in this case, and you were born to be murdered, so
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 29 December 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
:)
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 December 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
You can have any part you want, so long as you don't interfere...I have never cut you out of anything yet.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 December 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
I never knew ye olde ILX before the war, with its sinister music, its 12ft lizards and poxy fules.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
Harry, delete ILX plz
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
A few borad beefs, a few image bombz - why don’t you try and catch a real troll, Callahan?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
_"I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm."_Constantinople suited me better
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:44 (one year ago) link
still, good fellows, on the whole. did their best, you know.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
Oh, Paine, Paine.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:51 (one year ago) link
I like a good Western. That’s what I like about them, sir. You can pick them up and put them down anytime.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:53 (one year ago) link
i’ve got them muddled
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 02:39 (one year ago) link
Vienna doesn't really look any worse than a lot of other European cities. Bombed about a bit.
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 02:56 (one year ago) link
all's well that ends well! ladies and gentlemen, i have much pleasure in introducing mr. holly martins, from the other side.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link
He's only a scribbler with too much drink in him. Take Mr. Holly home.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:21 (one year ago) link
That's Mr Martins' little joke, of course. We all know perfectly well Zane Grey wrote what we call "westerns."
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:23 (one year ago) link
It wasn't for German gin.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:27 (one year ago) link
We just watched an episode of Richard Ayoade's Travel Man where they do The Third Man tour and are underwhelmed. Hats off to whoever had the idea to turn the actual sewer system into a tourist trap.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:35 (one year ago) link
I am annoyed that's not an actual quote from the film.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
iirc there is a cut and change of location between the two halves of this line, implying payne has been enthusing cheerfully about westerns for an entire jeep ride
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:57 (one year ago) link
Have you, Sergeant? Author? Martins? Thank you, Sergeant. ☝🏻😗
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:12 (one year ago) link
lolllll
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link
i can't very well introduce you to everybody.
Truly delightful character, responsible for one of the most clever tricks in cinema.
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:44 (one year ago) link
no! a major? did you really?
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 06:59 (one year ago) link
_I like a good Western. That’s what I like about them, sir. You can pick them up and put them down anytime._iirc there is a cut and change of location between the two halves of this line, implying payne has been enthusing cheerfully about westerns for an entire jeep ride
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Sacher
Mr. Crabbin?
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
Once when I was hard up I sold some tyres on the black market.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
Even at the end his thoughts were of you.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
What's the use of another post-mortem?
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link
On, pinning things on girls now!
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:21 (one year ago) link
Hilda!Ja?Führen Sie den Herrn herein!
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
some ice for mr. martins!
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 6 February 2023 00:44 (one year ago) link
Am I wrong in thinking that for some movies, excessive quoting drains the life from them, but not this one?
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 February 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
By some I mean most.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 February 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
I watched this with my 12 yo and we got to the last scene where the leaves are falling and Anna walks by Holly without acknowledging him and I started laughing…my kid looked at me strangely and I told him he’d understand when he’s older
― pioneering hardcore username technologies (calstars), Saturday, 2 March 2024 00:30 (three weeks ago) link
you found out my little secret. a man must live.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 March 2024 04:13 (three weeks ago) link
Damn that scene is so sad!!!!
― ian, Saturday, 2 March 2024 16:50 (three weeks ago) link
sometimes he said i laughed too much
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 March 2024 17:45 (three weeks ago) link