Woot, A Gentleman! Such a great Indian-American movie. I am super excited to watch it with y’all.
Right here in about half an hour, at 3pm Chicago time, we will all start up A Gentleman on googleplay or youtube or whatever we choose. And then I will start the comments up below, and you can leap in with your own comments. I’m excited!
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This is the most clearly Mr. and Mrs. Smith inspired bit, but the whole movie is very much Mr. and Mrs. Smith inspired, right? That vibe of making fun of action movies,a nd perfect suburban living, and the sort of black comedy take on assassins?
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This film has so many levels of understanding, it’s very funny but also the different kinds of satire, consumerism, NRIs, blue collar NRIs, Indian marriages, clueless Americans, gun culture, it’s brilliant.
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And of course, cell phones breaking
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Dixit touching his idols for protection, ahahahahaha!
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And two of them are Buddhist I think! Because of his wife!
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Dixit is driving the perfect car. Good on whoever picked that out for his character!
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Donuts! Cops eating Donuts! That’s part of the plan! And the movie doesn’t even bother underlining it, just trusts us to get it!
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I found IMDB pages for the two action directors!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706220/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr122
And one for India, who was also apparently responsible for Bharat, Junglee, and War, along with a ton of others!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1351839/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr125
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And there goes the NRI American dream, all blowed up.
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Please splain to me what film was on TV and the significance
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Agneepath, Amitabh’s early 90s cult hit. His character is a little boy who gets caught up in the gangster life and is raised partly by gangsters who then betray and try to kill him. There’s a lot more to it, but I think that is the big connection with this film. He also falls in love and gets married and tries to leave the life. Only Agneepath has a really tragic ending.
The closest connection is just that Amitabh has an incredibly cool pre-explosion line “Be careful, the winds are strong today” and then BOOM. Which this movie borrowed.
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So the whole American period of his life just gave him Jackie to love him? And now he is back to being an action hero type guy? I guess I am okay with that, a sort of “home is her” message.
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It’s romantic! I like it!
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I think it was a set up for a sequel, alas
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I think I want a Stree sequel slightly more than a sequel to this, so Raj and DK can work on that instead.
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The amount of movies I would watch of Sid being a great action hero as well as a dork is endless.
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Jackie’s hair is slightly redder than it’s been the entire movie, right? or is it just me? Or the lights?
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I think maybe it’s new highlights plus the lights.
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If I remember the making of right then this song was a last-minute addition, hence why she would have had a hair change since they stopped filming proper
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And now they are off towards Key West if my Flora geography is right
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AMERICA! This is the perfect American tag. Complete with Gap hoodie.
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Also, I worked at one of those tutoring storefronts for a while.
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Damn, this movie really holds up to a second viewing. I think it just flew right over the heads of the audiences in India which is really too bad. And maybe it was too close to the bone for NRIs.
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This was super fun! I had to cancel plans because of the weather in NJ, so this really brought my mood up! Glad we could finally all watch it! A great American 4th of July pick!
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Absolutely! Also, start thinking now, in a month it’s your turn to pick the Friday movie 🙂
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That’s actually happening? Oh god, the pressure.
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This was crazy fun. And now I have to drive off to a dog playdate at a friends’ house, listening to Bandook Meri Laila on a loop as I drive.
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This was so much fun! Thank you for this Sid-fest of a movie!
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