What’s Aged the Best?
Accidental cigarette flick; poster; trailer marketing; Palminteri-Spacey scenes; reactions to Soze; the slow fax; Redfoot's crew
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- Redfoot flicking a cigarette into Baldwin's face was reportedly an accident, which explains Baldwin's reaction.
- The poster is still great 25 years later.
- The trailer, built on Spacey telling the Soze story without giving too much away, was masterful marketing that may not be replicable.
- The roughly 35 minutes of Palminteri-Spacey scenes were shot first, in about a week, and play like a courtroom-drama play; Palminteri was the hottest name after A Bronx Tale, and his signing reportedly brought extra funding.
- The reactions when Soze is first brought up, including "He's here" and Esposito's "no shit," hold up.
- The fax slowly printing the suspect's face is a 90s trope, also in No Way Out, that texting has ended.
- Soze's huge urine stream in the opening is left undecided between best and worst; it was reportedly thickened to tip off Verbal's gelatinous-urine line.
- Redfoot's crew, with tucked-in t-shirts, fur-lined jean jackets and perms, is a best-or-worst item that lands on best.