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Actors: Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Killing Zoe |
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This movie was written and directed by Roger Avery (co-writer of Pulp Fiction) and produced by Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, etc.) However, this is NOTHING like your usual Tarantino film, which it isn't. It takes on a much darker view of human nature.
Eric Stoltz plays an American safecracker who travels to France at the request of an old friend who wants him to help rob a bank. His friend however, has become a serious addict (along with the rest of the members of the gang) and is becoming out of control. During the robbery, he injects himself and goes wild, killing hostages, and eventually turning on his own men. The police begin to move in, and the bank robbers are in a fight for their lives.
Althought this is a fairly interesting movie, it is a big sickening, and difficult to watch. NOTE: Roger Avery is NO Quentin Tarantino
--Evan McKearn, Resident Scholar
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A safecracker in the US gets a phone call from an old friend (and fellow criminal)in France to come and help him rob a bank. When he gets to Paris he sees that his old friend has become a serious drug addict, slowly dying of AIDS, who is running a group of French criminals planning a daring daytime robbery on a major bank. It seems like the perfect plan until the actual robbery where his old friend becomes a drug crazed psychopath killing friend and foe. This quickly gets the cops to surround the bank and keep everyone trapped inside. Full of paranoid suspense and action.
--bobby k, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Killing Zoe |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal/victim falls in love with victim/criminal
If this is a criminal POV story...
- Armed robbery!
- criminals killing each other
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
Hair color?
- blonde
- red
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average build (man)
- very skinny (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- fight for survival
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
- rude people
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
- A huge amnt of foul language
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