For Mann, this rejection of props was a necessity: All the drills, hammers, blow torches, and other safe-cracking implements had actually been used to commit robberies.
The thieves not only lent their time, they provided their tools. One of these guys, Mann mentions in a new interview for the Criterion release, was still on the FBI's most wanted list as of two years ago. There are some other real-life cops in the movie, as well as some genuine thieves. Destiny?!") It also marks the first time on film for Dennis Farina, who at the time was still an active Chicago cop. (The Belush's second finest part, after Oliver Stone's Salvador - to which my ten-year-old self would've cried, "What about Mr. The rest of the casting is just as inspired: William Peterson, Robert Prosky, and James Belushi all make their big-screen debuts. Another musician lost to history, some redneck by the name of Willie Nelson, has a minor yet affecting role. Good soundtrack? Bet your ass: an ominous electronic score by German synth heads Tangerine Dream and the killer use of a live performance by unsung Chicago bluesman Mighty Joe Young. The film indeed has a big romance, though regrettably there's no nudity in the lone sex scene - the only box on the dude-movie checklist that Thief doesn't tick. "Let's cut the mini-moves and the bullshit and get on with this big romance."
I change cars like other guys change their fking shoes. I wear a perfect, D-flawless three-carat ring. "If I want to meet people, I'll go to a fking country club." Every other word is fk, and, much to the annoyance of your significant others, you and your friends will be incessantly quoting lines for years to come (like me and mine do): There's the hardly original yet never tiresome perp-getting-beat-with-a-phone-book-in-an-interrogation-room scene.
#THIEF MOVIE FULL#
One guy takes a shotgun blast to the chest then gets dumped in a tank full of acid, another gets capped in the head point-blank. The body count is high and there's tons of blood.
#THIEF MOVIE MOVIE#
The movie - about a lone wolf burglar in Chicago who goes to work for a crime boss but then gets screwed over and seeks revenge - has everything you could ever want in a shoot-'em-up. On the surface, it'd appear they've done it again with Michael Mann's 1981 debut feature Thief, which came out recently in a dual-format edition. Once in a while the Criterion Collection will deviate from its ongoing college World Cinema course syllabus and release, as the old TBS show used to put it, a movie for guys who like movies: Armageddon, The Rock, The Game, RoboCop (sadly out of print), Ghostbusters (laserdisc only).
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