deezelboy
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 Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:01 am Post subject:
The Dogs
Subject description: Not about the dog running down the alleyway, but the regressing dog(s) image throughout the film...
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Well, I watched The Last Minute a couple of nights ago, and while I'm not too sure whether it's fairly routine or a very intelligent and well made film, given the fact that I can't get it out of my head I'd go for the latter!
One thing's got me, though, and that's the dog imagery. I don't mean the (adult) dog that's running down the alleyway, but the dog that's featured kind of regressing in age throughout the movie.
We see them at the start, shagging in Billy's agent's office. Later on, we see them in the same office but they're now puppies (either the offspring of the first set of dogs, or now getting younger). And Grimshank's gang of children care for and are protected by what looks like some overgrown foetal dog of the same variety we saw in the agent's.
My question is: WTF? 
This has been troubling me for over 36 hours... |
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Mercury
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Joined: 10 May 2005
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:
Re: The Dogs
Subject description: Not about the dog running down the alleyway, but the regressing dog(s) image throughout the film...
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| deezelboy wrote: | Well, I watched The Last Minute a couple of nights ago, and while I'm not too sure whether it's fairly routine or a very intelligent and well made film, given the fact that I can't get it out of my head I'd go for the latter!
One thing's got me, though, and that's the dog imagery. I don't mean the (adult) dog that's running down the alleyway, but the dog that's featured kind of regressing in age throughout the movie.
We see them at the start, shagging in Billy's agent's office. Later on, we see them in the same office but they're now puppies (either the offspring of the first set of dogs, or now getting younger). And Grimshank's gang of children care for and are protected by what looks like some overgrown foetal dog of the same variety we saw in the agent's.
My question is: WTF?
This has been troubling me for over 36 hours... |
Oh, I loved those shagging dogs!!! Before I ever saw the movie, I visited the official website SN had for it(it's not up anymore) and I saw a frame of that. It was the first time I thought that maybe Stephen Norrington might be a bit strange 
Okay, the shagging dogs and the little muttlings running around in the agent's office are really supposed to be the same age and size---same dogs, in other words.
However, the shagging dogs are not real---they're sculptures, made by the Man Himself, so maybe they appear to be "bigger". (He's wicked good, I think.)
And the nekid mutated chihuahua from hell---I have no idea what's up with that. It's not one of the agent's dogs. SN implied that it was a lark, but I think that although it might have started out like that, it ends up being used twice in the movie as a distraction in uncomfortable moments, to break the attention. But he said he just wanted to make it.
No one just makes up something for the heck of it, though   |
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The Last Minute (2001)
