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Article: 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang' a so-so exercise in style
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- Daily Breeze
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- October 21, 2005
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"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," as I so
tirelessly quote Jean-Luc Godard. Pauline Kael refined that insight
after seeing a movie poster in Italy that translated as "Kiss Kiss
Bang Bang."
These four words, she wrote, "are perhaps the briefest statement
imaginable of the basic appeal of the movies. The appeal is what
attracts us and ultimately makes us despair when we begin to
understand how seldom movies are more than this."
Shane Black has dealt with lots of girls and guns in his
screenplays, including the "Lethal Weapon" pictures, "The Long Kiss
Goodnight" and "Last Action Hero."
Now comes his directorial debut, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," to which
he adds a comma and a ...
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