I don’t mean to start a whole new thread, but those boxes are just driving me crazy.
A thought: I think the envelope that Costigan gave the woman was maybe the papers that Damon printed out for him. He says to Costigan, “here’s your stuff, now we’ll see about getting you paid.”
It was too small an envelope for CDs, and I don’t think that scorecese makes mistakes like that.
Re somethign ArchiveGuy said: was there a rat walking at the end of Third Man? The rat looked familiar to me, but I couldn’t nail it.
Are you talking about the Orson Welles film of 1949? There is no rat at the very end of that movie, although some earlier scenes are set in the seweres of Vienna. It’s been a while since I saw it, but there may be rats depicted in those scenes.
The ending of The Third Man is a very long shot of the female protagonist walking down a lane and past the male protaganist, who is waiting for her in the left foreground, without paying any attention to him.
Not only that, but in both films, they are coming back from the funeral with the woman the lover of the deceased, and the man the one responsible for his death. Both Cotten & Damon try to make contact with the woman (the latter more overtly than the former), but their efforts are ignored and the woman exits the frame by walking straight toward the camera.
So did she take whatever he gave her and give it to Digman?
aside: We watched it with a young woman behind it who was overwhelmed once the shooting finally started. Um, you came to a Scorcese film and are surprised by splatters of blood?!
Not to mention the movie reviewer who mentioned without warning that everyone dies in the end. :smack:
You’d be surprised–only after I saw the film with my wife did I discover that she’d never seen any of Scorsese’s previous violent/gangland flicks (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Casino). And Hollywood films, as a rule, tend to steer away from that kind of violence (preferring either stylized “action” or horror-related gore) so seeing something with major BO stars but with a more raw approach towards violence might be jarring for some.