Well, good evein’ to you all, ladies and gents, a very good, Ah say, Ah say, a very good evening to all of you. ‘cept, mebbe it ain’t such a good evenin’ for one individual in particular, hear in our “Give Me One More Chance” series. Yes, one individual ain’t gonna get no more chances, Ah say, Ah say, no more chances. Now I ain’t no big city crime solver, I’m just that simple country-boy detective Mandelbrot Black but ever since Ah was knee-high to a mudskipper, Ah was raised to believe that if y’all done something, y’all step up and admit it. Now one of y’all must have had a powerful dislike for this hear pony to do him in so dirty, so before I have to go peelin’ the layers of this here “Glass Onion” (y’all see what Ah did there?), mebbe one of you fine folks would like to save us the time and fess up: which one of y’all killed Bumpy the Wonder Pony? Pardon, Ah say, pardon me? Police? Call them? Why would I do such a thing? Heckfire, no! Ah jess’ wanna know whose name to inscribe on this here testimonial plaque, thankin’ y’all for your service to the community and humanity in general! Kudos to y’all, whoever ya’ll might be. As for this whole “Glass Onion” business, weeeellll, that ain’t my roe to hoe, now, is it? That’s another fella’s business. Give a listen, Ah say, Ah say, give a listen so y’all can hear about it!
Poll question: what cinematic detective do you think feels most like a real person?
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Marge Gunderson (Fargo) and Jake gittes ( chinatown) were always more like real people to me because even though they solved the case, they were still vulnerable and had lives outside the main story that made them more relatable to me. Many great detectives are great characters but nots always great representation of a real person and can fall into over simplified one dimensional beings.
Marge! How could I forget Marge! She was excellent. Haven’t seen “Chinatown” as I think it’s probably too violent for me. Thanks, Vince! Good calls both!
It has a t least one disturbing violent thing and the reveal is REALLY disturbing.
Off topic: I recently watched Island of Lost Souls, a Criterion restoration and it was SO disturbing and so good! Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi run away with it. Would you consider a series on more obscure classic era horror, this would be great, Freaks, there are a lot!
THAT’S an intriguing idea! Lesser-known classic horror films…. we’ll give this a thought with our brains! I assume you’d want us to include “The Penguin From 10,000 Fathoms” and “Dark Walrus.”
The popular phrase “The Dark walrus of the soul” comes from that movies! It haunts me still!