Bugsy
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Our read · Bugsy (1991) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · biopic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Bugsy
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