Touch of Evil Comments

  • Daron 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    The subtitles I watched for the first time are too cheating! The opening shot burst! Flowing photography and high-contrast light and shadow, everything is extremely cold. It's a pity that the edited version of O'Fang was destroyed by Universal, and now there are three more versions left in the world. The last sentence of Malen Dade, "He is a disgusting policeman... He is more or less a man... How do you judge a person, does it really...

  • Matt 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    The long shot of more than 3 minutes at the beginning is really a masterpiece, the processing of light and sound is almost perfect, and the editing points are also very accurate. Although it is a noir film type, many of the handling, especially the setting of the ending and themes, are obviously personal expressions of Orson Wells. I have only seen Wells’ citizen Kane and this film, and I always feel that he is self-directed. Self-acting movies, especially the roles he starred in, are a bit...

  • Ludwig 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    #资料馆留影#As an unusual number in the American film industry, Orson Wells’s “Three Views” are different from those of ordinary people. Even though there are few works, his films are still “exotic bones” even now. In this unique film noir, you can vaguely see the shadow of Xi Pang's "Mentally Ill", and even the heroine is the same person. The same is the story written and directed and acted by Wells. The villain sheriff he plays is three-dimensional and credible. It is a trick to fabricate...

  • Humberto 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    The second-rate story has first-class skills, the control of the camera and the presentation of the sound from the beginning to the end. The gray area on the US-Mexico border reminds of Villeneuve’s "sicario", but due to the age, a large number of studios are not recognizable enough. Hitchcock thought that Fatty wasn't cruel enough to Janet, and two years later, he made "Scary" in an even weird motel....

  • Emanuel 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    This film is like welles himself, the opening is amazing and the back is short of...

  • Melyna 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    4.5. A mature and natural anti-traditional approach to Hollywood movies of the same era, Wells is certainly far from being a high-level presenter of simple content. The setting of those background events and the cold and weird characters and editing make the movie normal. The narrative order is disrupted. What you will remember more is those carnival youths, hotel night watchmen, old fritter detectives in Orson Wells, the wandering movement of the shots, the sudden composition lines, and their...

  • Zane 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    There are various dazzling skills in framing and framing the scene, and various clichés in the concept of the...

  • Stefanie 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    I watched the 3 minutes and 20 seconds long shot back and forth 3 times at the beginning. It is a very powerful long shot; the scheduling of light and shadow in the film is really amazing. I always go back and experience it again from time to time. , The 95-minute movie made me watch more than 130 minutes. The theme in the film, the contest between good and evil, is still thought-provoking. But I like this movie more because of the lens than the...

  • Eulalia 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    It is indeed quite exciting. There is only one thing. Susan’s experience seems to be that the director can’t bear to be implicated by innocent people, but it doesn’t match the development of the whole show...It’s like the night of the Paradise of Bliss, the sun is off, and darkness comes. NS. The audience is really hard to please, and I can't bear so much mess with the man's wife in the face...

  • Peter 2021-12-07 08:01:37

    At the beginning, the scene is very attractive in depth, with a strong sense of perspective and opposition. The hotel's killing period made people chill, the use of black and white light and shadow that flashed on and off, the suffocating drums, and an upside down death almost was paralyzed by fright. The most powerful feeling is still in the characterization, the demon sheriff's paranoid justice, a little loneliness and love inner drama, weird and...

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Touch of Evil quotes

  • Pete Menzies: You're a killer.

    Hank Quinlan: Partly. I'm a cop.

    Pete Menzies: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled.

    Hank Quinlan: I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job, my dirty job?

    Pete Menzies: You didn't have to make it dirty.

    Hank Quinlan: I don't call it dirty. Look at the record, our record, partner. Huh?

    Pete Menzies: Sure, sure, sure.

    Hank Quinlan: Well? All those convictions.

  • Quinlan: I don't speak Mexican. Let's keep it in English, Vargas.

    Vargas: That's all right with me. I'm sure he's just as unpleasant in any language.

    Sanchez: Unpleasant? Strange. I've been told I have a very winning personality. The very best shoe clerk the store ever had.