I love Scorsese's films. Sure his films are violent, male oriented, but beautiful filmmaking. Yet I began to be bothered in "The Departed" by his repeated use of the f-word in the script. It was distracting from a great story, great acting. But "Wolf" was something else. An hour of relentless f-wording and brutal sexist behavior toward women was enough for me. I walked out. Mr. Scorsese you are starting (if not already) losing some of your best admirers by this. To me it reflects a screenwriter who thinks he needs to use explicit language to make a film about a bad guy interesting to audiences. Might I suggest you get your screenwriters together in one room and watch the entire series of "Breaking Bad" to see how to write a great script. No profanity. No sexist drivel. Just creative language for a great actor to speak and to build his bad ass character as someone we'll never forget.
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Pentathlon
(1994)
Story does not credit book
16 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Pentathlon tells the story of an olympic athlete who defects to the USA and is hunted by East German Stasi agent (David Soul). Compare film with the German book, "Tod dem Verraeter" (2000) by Heribert Schwan, which tells the TRUE story of olympic athlete, Lutz Eigendorf, who escapes East Germany and is tracked down allegedly by Stasi and murdered. When I watched Pentathlon I could not help but compare it to the book and wonder where the film writers came up with the story???? And by the way, Soul, with a pseudo German accent, is awful in this flick. Wherever the film's plot came from, it could have been an exciting action film. Instead it was dull and plodding.
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