dimecres, 11 de febrer del 2009

Ideas for reviewng "The Cotton Club"

Once again, I return to my admired Francis Coppola and now with a problematic and difficult production in 1983 with the mafia involved, that at the end became an amazing film. I have some ideas:


- mixture between musical and drama
- an extraordinary Diane Lane
- different parallelism
- a portrait of a mythical era
- the sequence of tap dance while Dutch is eliminated
- The Godfather constantly present
- Combination of real facts, fiction and historical movie stars
- Bob Hoskins!
- The importance of racism
- Cab Calloway performance
- Richard Gere it’s correct, but doesn’t offer an amazing performance
- An strange and personal end, mixing the real facts with the performances in the Cotton Club. Who but Coppola could do this?
- Nicholas Cage performance, Coppola is his uncle.
- The violence of the époque