"Hans Paulin (6310)" <me@privacy.net> skrev i meddelelsen
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> Leder efter en amerikansk film ca. 10-20 år gammel:
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> I løbet af filmen sidder en gruppe mennesker og spiller poker med en
> pistol på bordet; pludselig ser den kvindelige hovedperson en dråbe
> vand komme ud af pistolmundingen; nogen bud?
House of Games (1987, David Mamet)
A game of five-card draw also gets things going here, and everything is
revealed. That’s the fun in this mind game of a movie, a classic
Mamet-ian exercise in man-woman verbal and sexual jousting. Lindsay
Crouse plays a best-selling author and psychologist trying to help a
patient who says he’ll be killed if he doesn’t pay off a gambling debt
to Mike (Joe Mantegna), a con artist who hangs out at a place called the
House of Games. Crouse is attracted to Mike and his profession, and she
and we get a crash course in the con. Although things end up bloody, the
poker game that hooks Crouse is superb theater.
When Crouse sees liquid leaking out of the gun that one of the players
(Ricky Jay) is using to threaten her, she realizes it’s a water pistol
and she’s being had. When Mantegna chides Jay for putting water in a
perfectly fine replica of a real pistol, Jay defends himself by saying,
“I’m not going to threaten someone with an empty gun!” It’s lines like
that one and this—“I’m from the United States of Kiss My Ass”—that make
House of Games a literate delight.