The incorruptibles: everything that does not go in the classic of Brian de Palma
Classic 80’s? Large urban western? Are you sure? The Redif Télé des Incorruptibles is the perfect opportunity to revise your judgment on this slightly wobbly, a little messy, but terribly entertaining thriller.
Adored, ossarized, never forgotten, The incorruptible There remains a claudicating film, in which a screenwriter, a director, a studio and a star seem to fight an open battle for a little more than two hours. Time made him strange, both totally enjoyable and never satisfactory. We thus observe his chic classicism being harmed by very ironic swolders, and we have a little trouble picking up all these pretty pieces between them. Designated very quickly as blessing frogs, dirty racist and addicted to violence, the four valiant incorruptibles of the title must thus be envisaged like the armed wing of Puritan America, tracking with a certain pleasure alcoholic libertarians and everything that does not resemble them.
The film will tell the way the very tale Eliot Nesspassionate about the Bible and the sermons, turns into a vigilante illuminated in contact with the underworld and a replacement father (whip), Jimmy Malone. First cautious when it comes to drawing his gun, Inspector Eli will quickly forget his modesty and will end up swinging without blinking the gangster Frank Nitti From the top of the roof of the Chicago court – he was doing a little too clever to his taste ….
Next to this uneducated brute, sort of Proto White Supremacist,, Al Capone under the features of Robert de Niro is a gentleman of a rare sophistication, upset by opera tunes of which Ness will never hear the slightest note in his whole life. We can clearly see what could have seduced in this project Brian de Palmanever very subtle satirist in reactive America, and its screenwriter David Mametwhose poorly rough virility has always been one of the major favorite subjects.
Birth of a star
Yes but here, in parallel with this film, there is a second, very different, made in their corner by Kevin Costner and the Paramount. We are in 1987 and the actor, a beautiful mouth who cannot unravel, knows that he plays his career here. He has a destiny to accomplish, becoming the favorite star of republican America, and the role of Ness is a boon. He will interpret it without irony or the slightest ambivalence, thus making the whole distance proposed by the story and the staging. It is the staggering birth certificate of a star, who if she does not yet have power on a plateau manages by her only genius to put the whole project in her hand.
In front, Sean Connery No matter how boxes in old chicken righteous,, Kevin Costner It remains imperturbable, proudly Yankee and completely taped. Some grotesque scenes probably suggested by the studio (the little girl who dies in an explosion at the start and becomes an alibi to exterminate the Italian scum) will allow Costner’s vision to triumph and win in the collective unconscious.
Vintage thriller
Too bad so if nothing is aggressive. We can enjoy sipping the acerbic verve of the duo From Palma/Mamet, be dazzled in front of the Tour de force made by Costner (who manages even to ride a horse in a vintage thriller) and it is obviously necessary to rent the triumph of value production that represents this object dressed by Armani and set to music by Ennio Morricone. Everyone plays in their corner and against their teammate, and that may be why it is also fun to watch. A gang war, even when she is played behind the scenes, is always a very good way to occupy her Saturday evening.
