#Brick Film

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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths in LEGO! | The Batman Animated...

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Is there even a target audience 4 this besides me,,,

Is this edit even worth it 2 make

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25 of 250: Favorite Film Reviews - Brick

Not long ago, work colleagues and I got into a discussion about what our favorite films were. Given my categorical nature I could not resist writing down a list and, as a writing challenge, have decided to write 250 word reviews of my favorite 25 films of all-time. Note: these are my favorite films, not what I think are the best films of all time.

Directed by: Rian Johnson

Written by: Rian Johnson

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Hass, Emilie de Ravin

Year/Country: 2005, United States

Genre reinventions and mashups are always risky. If the reinvention is not reverent to its source material enough, devotees will revolt; if the mashup is unbalanced, then the product will be ridiculed. These are the headwinds facing writer/director Rian Johnson’s Brick, a 1940s-esque film noir set in a 1990s California high school where everyone talks like Humphrey Bogart. If that sounds nuts, it is, but Johnson has several aces up his sleeve that turns the absurd into the sublime.

The story tells of the murder of Emily (Emilie de Ravin). Before her death she calls her ex-boyfriend, the arrogant, intelligent Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), frightened about being blamed for “bad brick” that has laid a seedy drug dealer low. Later she tells Brendan to forget it, but after her murder he cannot. So he sets out to not only discover who pulled the trigger but also who put her in front of the gun.

Did I mention this takes place in a high school? And that the characters recite lines like, “Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.” And it works. It works because Johnson has faith in it, Gordon-Levitt sells its seriousness, and the audience revels in its chutzpah. Johnson would go on to revive the detective genre with his Knives Out series, but it’s arguable we would not have Benoit Blanc without the success of Brick.

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Brick (2005)

dir.: Rian Johnson

dop: Steve Yedlin

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PAUL NEWMAN as Brick Pollitt Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) dir. Richard Brooks

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The Emerald City.

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Who are you callin' busted, buster?

Blade Runner 2049 (2017), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Hereditary (2018), The Darjeeling limited (2007), Chinatown (1974), Breaking Bad (2008 - 2013), Titane (2001), After Hours (2020), L.A. Confidential (1997), Brick (2005)

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Brick (2005) dir. Rian Johnson

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Taiwan, 1999 Sanshia, Taiwan. 台湾 新北市 三峡区 三峡老街 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

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Panthers v Oilers ... pre game 4 ... 15.06.2024

[beyondthespider]

Officer Balls But in LEGO

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Brick (2005) | dir. Rian Johnson

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[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film Final Destination. There's a large dark blue silhouette of Alex Browning with his shoulders slouching and his head tilted slightly. A few of his features are defined with a faded yellow, but for the most part the details are obscured. In front of him, there's Flight 180's plane plummeting down, drawn in a light blue. Smoke and fire and explosions cascade off of it, dominating the left side of the piece. This is coloured in very warm tones, with the flames being quite bold. The background is a dark blue, though lighter than the silhouett of Alex.]

Inktober - Day 4 (Dodge)

Movie - Final Destination (James Wong, 2000)

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PAUL NEWMAN as Brick Pollitt Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) dir. Richard Brooks

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the “would you return as your x-men character in deadpool 3 if they asked” starter pack

aaron stanford’s lack of poker face + mentioning, unprompted, his “lasting friendships” from those movies - months before the first trailer confirmed pyro was back - made me clock that the other two must be returning, too

then they had equally terrible poker faces in their own interviews lol