Obscure Old Movie Favourites

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This takes place in China, but is more a mixed bag of British, United States, and Japan.


http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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This takes place in China, but is more a mixed bag of British, United States, and Japan.

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Spielberg's best film to date.

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Let's go to Brazil.


This is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. The title role was played by a thirteen year old who in real life had been a street criminal in Sao Paulo. He did one other film after this then went back to a life of crime and was killed in a shootout with police at the age of 19.

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I prefer art to be separated from reality in that way .

See The Road Home everyone. Really.


The serious Chrisisall

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Let's go to Brazil.


This is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. The title role was played by a thirteen year old who in real life had been a street criminal in Sao Paulo. He did one other film after this then went back to a life of crime and was killed in a shootout with police at the age of 19.

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They did a lot of that with The Wire, too. They used real gang members for quite a few of the roles, and the guy who played the old deacon (Cutty's mentor) was said to have been the biggest heroin dealer in Bal'more at one time.

Then there's Felicia Pearson, who played the hit-man (hit-WOMAN, I mean) Snoop on the show.

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Pearson was born to two incarcerated drug addicts and raised in an East Baltimore foster home. Born premature and weighing only three pounds, she was not expected to live. She was so small she was fed with an eyedropper until she could be fed normally.
Instead of attending school, Pearson worked as a drug dealer. At the age of 14, she was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a girl named Okia Toomer and sentenced to eight years at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Maryland.[1] Pearson said her life turned around at the age of 18 when Arnold Loney, a local drug dealer who looked out for her and sent her money in prison, was shot and killed. It was he who had given her the nickname "Snoop" because she reminded him of Charlie Brown's beagle Snoopy in the comic strip Peanuts. While in prison, she earned her GED and was released in 2000. She landed a local job fabricating car bumpers, she says, but was fired after only two weeks when her employer learned she had a prison record.

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Where they could, they tried to keep it real.

Oh, and Mello, the police captain? That's the actual former detective that the character of John Munch was based on (Richard Belzer plays the role, in "Homicide: Life On The Street" and in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"). His real name is Jay Landesman. But there's another guy playing the role of Jay Landesman in the show. :)

Mike

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