Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Sharkey's Machine
Careless
Escape From Alcatraz
What else?
Casino?
Titus Andronicus?
On May 23, 10:40�pm, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> Movies where cutting off of fingers is a plot point (aside from
> horror movies):
The English Patient.
Also, in the Thai pic "Citizen Dog", a sardine-cannery worker loses a
finger into a can. He searches Bangkok until he hears tapping from
within a sardine can. He finds a finger inside and reattaches it - but
it isn't his. Later he encounters a co-worker who has had the same
accident and done the same search with the same result. They switch,
get their fingers back and become friends. This is not the strangest
thing that happens in the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444778/
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- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA
The Lord of the Rings, if 'bitten off' counts.
The Good, The Bad and the Weird, which I just happened to see Sat. evening.
The Enemy Below. Fingers were cut off accidentally.
Wasn't that fun? Love the hawk and the train in the beginning. That
flick was a real gas.
William
www.williamahearn.com
True Grit
The Yakuza
Mad Max II
Brannigan
--
Halmyre
I was thinking in Die Hard 2 when Bruce Willis was fighting one of the
bad guys he bit off a couple fingers and spit them out.
In Speed Dennis Hopper played a mad bomber who mangled a hand and lost
a thumb when a bomb went off.
Man On Fire - Denzel Washington cuts off one of the kidnapper's
fingers one by one to get information from him.
Black Rain - A Yakuza gangster cuts off each of his pinkie fingers to
atone for going against the code.
"Dark Man" with a cigar cutter, no less.
"Running Man" with razor wire.
Yol Bolsun,
Grendel.
"I'm not cynical, just experienced."
Which brings to mind 'The Return of the Pink Panther'.
That would include almost any Yakuza film as finger cutting and
tattoos are the visuals most directors go for, followed by huge
American cars.
William
www.williamahearn.com
39 Steps, though the actual cutting happens before the curtain goes up.
The Other.
Denzil Washington or somebody -- more of recent terrorist spin, flip,
whodoneit. It's action is totally oriented into a mindgame. Then the
obvious - The English Patient.
What's that other one, can't think of it...a gambler running with a
mob-type debt. . .too vague to recall. More in line perhaps with
these, another everybody knows - Mel Gibson's remake of the Lee Marvin
thingy, where Christopherson uses mallets on him (if not fingers,
equally well intended).
Actual footing (digital misnomers) compiled from internet scenes
smuggled out of Iraq of various cuts from Hussein's camps. Got a good
review from Bush, anyway.
Not exactly sure about Careless, a relative degree of entertainment,
but I'm nevertheless sure there's cutting fingers off, and then
there's fingers effectively being cut off. An analogy to facial
reconstructive surgery in specialized documentaries relating variously
to advancements on studies provided by courtesy of gang warfare in
L.A. or military medical training films. Not saying everyone would be
entertained, although it helps to enjoy what's being done if that's
the job. Guess it could be a potential viewed for residual
alternatives, outtakes on cases, say, were one's ass capped in some
hypothetical, gun-crazy society.
Darkman, an early Sam Raimi film, where the fingers are snipped off
with a cigar cutter. In Live and Let Die, Bond comes close to losing
his pinky.
The Big Sky
--
====Jim Frech
Does "Dead of Winter" count as a horror movie? It's a parody of Grand
Guignol at the very least.
William
www.williamahearn.com
> Movies where cutting off of fingers is a plot
> point (aside from horror movies):
Most Japanese Mobster movies. Apparently it a
genuine ritual, of sorts, which they do to
themselves.
Here's one, AND it was made in English, but
by Takeshi Kitano, an extremely talented
Japanese Actor/Director/Writer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222851/
Anyway, here's a link explaining the Japanese
mob thing...
: Yubitsume, or the cutting of one's finger,
: is a form of penance or apology. Upon a
: first offence, the transgressor must cut
: off the tip of his left little finger and
: hand the severed portion to his boss.
: Sometimes an underboss may do this in
: penance to the oyabun if he wants to
: spare a member of his own gang from
: further retaliation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza
> Movies where cutting off of fingers is a plot point (aside from horror
> movies):
>
The Road Warrior - Never try to catch a steel boomerang.
> What else?
One showed up on Broadcast TV last night; NCIS on CBS.
berk
> Also, in the Thai pic "Citizen Dog",...
<snip>
> This is not the strangest
> thing that happens in the movie.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444778/
> - Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA
Huh. Who needs LSD, we got movies.
berk
Last night I watched a movie called 'Camile' staring Sienna Miller.
Wouldn't you know it, her character had a finger off-ed. Hollywood does
love their themes.