"That" old feeling of analog filmmaking
Picture this bill, Christopher Walken as a criminal mastermind, Laurence Fishburne as his first lieutnant with a big mouth, two guns and a Run Dmc Style, David Caruso as a nervous irish cop, miles away from the one he portrays in CSI:Miami, and Wesley Snipes as an angry cop, and you get King of New York, one of the forgotten gems of a genre that doesn't exist anymore.
Frank White is a criminal mastermind, just out of jail, he is ambitious and philantropic, and has a posse of black gansters who listen and dress like old school hip hop (these days, sweet), and he has to secure his territory from the Columbian Mafia, the chinese Mafia, and the triades, he is followed by a special police unit, and his girlfriend is his lawyer, and she gets him out of trouble all the time.
It sounds pretty cliché second rate film, but add to that, the whole other ingredients, Electric camera moves, ambiguous characters, and New York by night, becoming a character by itself, and thie whole style of filmaking, see these days everything is too digital, movies seem to be fast packed and designed to look the best on home cinemas, but a movie like that is made to be watched at an old movie theater, preferably on a winter evening, back in the days, it really filled you with a wonderful feeling.
The storyline is pretty straightforward and simple, but the filmmaking is brilliant, the actors give a good performance, and it's a good movie for the internet generation to watch, just to remember the world before Terminator 2, which was the first blockbuster i remember (i'm sure there were ones before), and then all this magic of the silver screen started to change, that's something that doesn't exist anymore, neighborhood smelly theaters, and JVC Vcr's but this movie will bring you back to it, and to all these movies you watch on a saxophone solo, with city lights, and no computers, no mobiles, no internet, just tangible stuff, the level of sex and drug and violence is really on a level that the kids are not used to, but these excesses were what made these movies special.... Abel Ferara is surely Brilliant.
Picture this bill, Christopher Walken as a criminal mastermind, Laurence Fishburne as his first lieutnant with a big mouth, two guns and a Run Dmc Style, David Caruso as a nervous irish cop, miles away from the one he portrays in CSI:Miami, and Wesley Snipes as an angry cop, and you get King of New York, one of the forgotten gems of a genre that doesn't exist anymore.
Frank White is a criminal mastermind, just out of jail, he is ambitious and philantropic, and has a posse of black gansters who listen and dress like old school hip hop (these days, sweet), and he has to secure his territory from the Columbian Mafia, the chinese Mafia, and the triades, he is followed by a special police unit, and his girlfriend is his lawyer, and she gets him out of trouble all the time.
It sounds pretty cliché second rate film, but add to that, the whole other ingredients, Electric camera moves, ambiguous characters, and New York by night, becoming a character by itself, and thie whole style of filmaking, see these days everything is too digital, movies seem to be fast packed and designed to look the best on home cinemas, but a movie like that is made to be watched at an old movie theater, preferably on a winter evening, back in the days, it really filled you with a wonderful feeling.
The storyline is pretty straightforward and simple, but the filmmaking is brilliant, the actors give a good performance, and it's a good movie for the internet generation to watch, just to remember the world before Terminator 2, which was the first blockbuster i remember (i'm sure there were ones before), and then all this magic of the silver screen started to change, that's something that doesn't exist anymore, neighborhood smelly theaters, and JVC Vcr's but this movie will bring you back to it, and to all these movies you watch on a saxophone solo, with city lights, and no computers, no mobiles, no internet, just tangible stuff, the level of sex and drug and violence is really on a level that the kids are not used to, but these excesses were what made these movies special.... Abel Ferara is surely Brilliant.
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