Published Oct. 31, 2023
The blue, against the black background and the scenes at night in Chicago, is perfect. I think I could watch extended credits for for this movie for a long time and be riveted, maybe even soothed as well.
So satisfying.
To see some of them in all their glory, you can watch the trailer all the way through.
If part of that doesn’t seem to pop the way it does in memory, know that Tommy Lee Jones did a more subdued version of his speech (I think to rush a trailer into cinemas) and later turned it up a notch or two. The film shows bits and pieces of both takes.
But those titles, am I right? Like the movie itself, they never get old. Throw in James Newton Howard’s score and give me some popcorn and I’m good. And what is it about me and 1993 movies lately? Some of them really have their hooks in me.
Bunny Blumschaefter
The very young Julianne Moore and Jane Lynch, playing it straight, with no movie star vanity at all.
Shortly after the film came out, A very smart actor friend of mine said, ” if you watch closely, there’s an exact moment when TLJ realizes that Ford is innocent, and he lets him stay one step ahead for the rest of the movie. ” We got busy speaking of other things, and he never did identify that one moment.
Years later, I asked my friend, “when was that moment in The Fugitive – you knoww, when TL
Jones realizes he’s innocent?” and he said
“I can’t remember.”
😯