Post by manfromplanetx on May 16, 2018 21:58:26 GMT
In Samuel Fuller's excellent cold war thriller/noir Pick Up On South Street (1953) the main protagonist is a conflicted character. Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) is an ambiguous anti-hero, a street smart petty thief who unwittingly becomes a threat to national security. Skip's ambivalence holds the film together, McCoy's world weariness his cynical nature is unpatriotic, he is willing to sell out his country for a price. When picked up at his South Street shack and brought in by the feds, he refuses to get the "kink" out of his mouth and will not cooperate. Famously stating...
"Are you waving the flag at me?" "Is there a law now that I gotta listen to lectures?" . The feds try and appeal to his patriotism. "Do you know what treason means?", Skip the jaded anti hero defiantly replies "Who cares?" , patriotism and the flag have little relevance in the back alleys in the underworld of NY city streets...
"Are you waving the flag at me?" "Is there a law now that I gotta listen to lectures?" . The feds try and appeal to his patriotism. "Do you know what treason means?", Skip the jaded anti hero defiantly replies "Who cares?" , patriotism and the flag have little relevance in the back alleys in the underworld of NY city streets...