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Paul Calderon
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- 4
- Movies in this archive
- 3
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- Calderon’s suspicious officer is the unanimous first horror-victim choice, imagining Lagonda waiting in his closet. — Bill Simmons
In the discussion (6)
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- Walken punching Snipes repeatedly at his first arrest would realistically have given the cops their excuse to shoot Frank.
- The Chinatown shootout is little one-sided, a 10-to-zero win, though loved as a callback to Scarface. — Bill Simmons
- Caruso being assassinated at a police funeral is still not fully believed, though enjoyed. — Bill Simmons
- Snipes wandering into a dark open area calling out Jimmy is questioned; adrenaline after the car chase is offered as the explanation.
- Why Joey, Paul Calderon's character, set up Frank's crew is questioned; one theory is he knew Frank was doomed and the cops were his only buyer.
- Frank's plan seemed to work like a charm, compared to the unstoppable train 777 in Unstoppable, until the cops went rogue; whether cops can be trusted not to go rogue may be unanswerable.
In the discussion (2)
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- Artie Clay peeing on Paul Calderon's shoes is named. — Bill Simmons
- Fishburne dials it up in his death scene, but the voice that chose him for Apex Mountain would not give him the award and agrees on Artie Clay.
In the discussion (7)
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- Whether That Guy can mean someone before they became that guy is debated; Caruso is too much of a lead.
- Paul Calderon is first named as the Joey Pants answer because most people do not know who he is, then moved to the Dion Waiters Award.
- Buscemi is suggested and rejected because he became Steve Buscemi.
- A candidate list: Carrie Nygren, who does not speak and is amazing as Melanie; Roger Guenveur Smith; Leonard L. Thomas with a great line delivery; and Joey Chin, whose Nosferatu spiel is a favorite. — Sean Fennessey
- Buscemi was a That Guy when the movie was made (Parting Glances, Billy Bathgate, Heart of Midnight, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink), suggesting an at-the-time variation of the award.
- Another voice prefers the award for people whose names you do not know: Victor Argo is a That Guy to a movie fan who is not a cinephile, and Paul Calderon is 'definitely a that guy', seen in Pulp Fiction without knowing his name. — Sean Fennessey
- The Arty Clay actor is called the perfect That Guy too, one of the hoods at the beginning of Once Upon a Time in America; the bride's father from Sorcerer and The Brink's Job and James Lorinz from Street Trash are further That Guys.
In the discussion (4)
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- Caruso is ruled ineligible as the third lead with too many scenes.
- One participant goes off the map with Theresa Randle, questioned as maybe too famous or more of a That Guy. — Bill Simmons
- Paul Calderon is moved from Joey Pants to the Dion Waiters Award ('I would go for Calderon').
- The Randle case: unclear job and motivation, owns every scene, seems dangerous, barely any lines, and described as a bodyguard. — Bill Simmons
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- The limo is used as an action-movie car, with Fishburne blasting two guns out of the sunroof and Theresa Randle popping out too; the opening limo is compared to Dracula's driverless coach; Night Shift and Big are mentioned for limo scenes.
- The young cast of Fishburne, Buscemi, Caruso, Snipes, Esposito and Paul Calderon; Esposito had to wait 20 more years for his famous moment. — Bill Simmons
- The Snipes-Caruso buddy-cop movie buried inside is wanted as a prequel, in the Running Scared world.
- The whole structure is basically The Wire: you watch Frank like Barksdale, know every crew member's function, meet the less flashy cops, and root for the bad guys.
- A think piece found in research argued the film paved the way for The Shield and The Wire; it was the first of its kind. — Bill Simmons
- As in The Shield, the cops' badness is real; Caruso breaks the law intending to kill Frank, which is why you root for Frank White. — Sean Fennessey
- Caruso's wedding performance is named a second time, with the toast quoted, including 'The test came back negative' and Roy Bishop's Afro Sheen.
- Walken dealing with muggers on the subway is a vestige of 70s and 80s New York movies, with a super-young Harold Perrineau. — Bill Simmons
- Larry Wong keeping cocaine in giant MSG containers is a great idea, and his hanging upside down is read as a callback to Nosferatu, with Walken channeling it like a bat.
- The hip-hop gangster aspect and the Black and Puerto Rican foot-soldier gang introduced something new to gangster films and set off a dozen similar movies after New Jack City.
- 1990 New York as a locale and its actors of that moment; it is high-low New York, the Plaza and under the bridge, combining exploitation roots with a beautiful cinematic sense.
- Catching all these guys at a cool moment of their careers is another favorite. — Bill Simmons
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