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Old August 4th, 2012 #6
Alex Linder
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Originally Posted by N.B. Forrest View Post
Great flick. Matthau's highly-intelligent, meticulously careful bank robber Varrick was outstanding, as were John Vernon as the anti-jew banker and Joe Don Baker as the polite Southern assassin:

"I allow very few men to speak to me in that tone. Few caucasians. And no nigras at all."
Yeah, it has some great stuff. I love when the hothead is all "you don't have the balls of a bull canary! I'm eating beefsteak 3x a day!" Probably missed that a little, but something like that.

Back then, as I've said many times, they employed real people as actors. Now all the people they use look like actors. If you see what I mean. Even the bit roles look like movie stars. No one's old. No one's gray. No one has bad teeth. No one has bad thoughts. If they're unPC, it's in the usual jejune PC stereotyping way.