I knew I was going to do the flashback structure at the very beginning. The other big thing I had, and this is something that again comes from Hammett, is that Brendan makes a completely irrational move. But that also implicates him. The process of that leads to the Pin.
I knew I wanted to basically take a page from Red Harvest , where Brendan just blows it all up. And then of course the last scene is The Maltese Falcon again, bringing it back to the femme fatale who was behind it the whole time. For Johnson, it all comes down to moral clarity, or lack thereof. He considers Brick and Knives Out emblematic of the divide between the two strains of literary mystery. I think at the soul of it, the difference between those two genres is moral ambiguity.
The context in which the story needs to make sense is the intuitive plane, not the logical one. But the reality is, most people are going to experience it as a narrative. The main way the story has to make sense is in an intuitive way, where you get the journey of the main person. Then you try and work out the other stuff, and hopefully it all lines up and makes sense.
But I do agree with him that the basic tension of a movie comes not from withholding knowledge from the audience, but from giving them knowledge and making them worry about a character, as opposed to making them do a puzzle in their head.
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Top credits Director Rian Johnson. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Clip A Guide to the Films of Rian Johnson. Photos Top cast Edit. Joseph Gordon-Levitt Brendan as Brendan. Emilie de Ravin Emily as Emily. Meagan Good Kara as Kara. Nora Zehetner Laura as Laura. Noah Fleiss Tugger as Tugger. Noah Segan Dode as Dode. Richard Roundtree Assistant V. Trueman as Assistant V. Johnson and Gordon-Levitt agreed that "Brick isn't the way high school was, but maybe it's a little closer to the way high school felt.
It was a runoff tunnel, prone to rushing water, but the filmmakers persevered. Director Rian Johnson told the cast to read Dashiell Hammett books but not watch any noir films, as he didn't want the cast to be influenced by other roles.
At 41 minutes regarding the punch according to Rian Johnson "It's a hidden cut where we had the camera back on the dolly track and a long lens for the beginning of it and we slowly backed up, and then when Tugger Noah Fleiss walked up to him and pulled back for the punch, we had them freeze. We cut the camera, cranked it down to about six frames per second, and then backed up on the dolly track, then started rolling again, rolled the camera forward, exactly when we passed the spot that we were at on the dolly we cued them, and Tugger started doing the punch and Joe started doing it with him in slow motion.
That probably made no sense at all. According to costume designer Michele Posch, Gordon-Levitt doesn't like to wear new clothes. At , Brendan is using a mirror reflecting sunlight to light up basement.
The film score here is reminiscent of parts of Jerry Goldsmith's "Chinatown" score. Nora Zehetner accidentally broke Rian Johnson's guitar. She bought one for herself, but Johnson took it as payment. Cinematographer Steve Yedlin had been Johnson's friend for years and had the advantage of working on actual film sets after school.
Yedlin would bring copies of the script to the various sets, "and if there was a cool producer on the set he would slip him the script. They shot it backwards and then just played the scene in reverse. To that end, he references Miller's Crossing , Glengarry Glen Ross and A Clockwork Orange as "films that have an aspect of them, whether it's language or anything else, that kind of hits the ground running and doesn't really look over its shoulder to see if you're catching up with it.
Back when Johnson was still in film school a friend gave him a list of producers and their phone numbers. Johnson never called any of them, but when he came across the notebook page with the names and numbers while filming reshoots he was surprised to see Bergman at the bottom of the page. The latter led to the former as an interview with the Coens saw them referencing Hammett's work.
Lukas Hass's character is dressed like the character of Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows; who was portrayed by Jonathan Frid in the original and by Ben Cross in the 90's remake. Rian Johnson first saw Nora Zehetner in Lucky McKee's May , on which he was an editor, and that was enough to bring her to mind for the role of Laura here.
Similar to Bugsy Malone in some ways. Both are mini-me versions of adult genres. Bugsy is a kids version of adult gangster movies like Godfather and Kiss Of Death.
Brick is a junior miss version of Maltese Falcon. Rian Johnson asked Tillen to "do something illegal," and she complied. Although the scenes of violence are shot so that contact is rarely seen, there is still a very strong impression of meaty impact, enhanced by the realistic sound effects. The viewer really feels that he is being beaten up and the character is left staggering around with a cut and bruised face, in agony from the seemingly endless pummelling.
BBFC Guidelines at the time for the 15 category stated that 'violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain and injury' and these scenes fall within this guideline. The 15 category is confirmed by a shooting towards the end of the film. The impact is seen in profile and a large blood spurt issues from the back of the victim's head as the bullet exits; a small cloud of smoke hovers just by the exit wound.
It is carefully shot, so there is no focus on the aftermath, but examiners felt it is still strong enough to warrant a
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