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Inside Man
2006 · Film · 129 min
Directed by Spike Lee
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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> ...a firm co-founded by Daniel Rosenberg, the producer of Spike Lee’s “Inside Man.”
Apparently he was an executive producer, in case anyone else is confused, as I was initially, by the fact that Brian Grazer is credited as producer of that film.
I don’t know if anyone remembers the movie Inside Man where at the beginning they are waiting in line at the bank and the woman is having a loud conversation on her phone and the guard comes and tells here to keep it down. It’s this kind of person that I see not using speakers (when the movie was made I don’t think they contemplated humanity could sink that low), at best it’s entitlement, but I still think in most cases it boils down to not thinking about others vs actively trying to annoy them.
> But buddies I travelled with took the no money approach serious (despite also having a bank account somewhere). Partly ideological, partly spiritual motivations. Not being dependant on money. It is freeing.
I knew a ridiculous rich guy, who said the parents: “I do not want money from you, I will manage alone” He went to another city (where I met him) and he always bragged about how “liberating” it was, and how grown up he was, and he knew what is like to be poor, because he was poor… (1)
In my opinion he was full of shit and full of himself. It remind me about the film Inside Man, the opening scene features mastermind Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) in a prison cell, he say something like “being in a cell is not being in prison”. Is absolutely not the same being poor, in contrast to having money and not using it as part of a kind of game.
(1) let me give me more context: I saw him telling other people, who were actually poor and were struggling to eat, and giving lessons of life to them, explaining how being poor is an “opportunity“. It was a miracle he conserved all teeth that day.
> As Allen approached the dark spot, he saw a makeshift door, painted to blend in with the wall. Inside, he discovered the lair.
This story reminds me of the movie "Inside Man" [1], where a bank robber hides with the loot behind a fake wall in the bank, until the police investigation is done, and he can just walk out.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/
Yeah, this post opened my eyes to important context about 80s and 90s action movies. Watching those movies 10-20 years later, I often thought, how are there so many darn banks getting robbed? Turns out, ‘Heat’ is more realistic than I understood (at least in this one respect).
Spike Lee’s ‘Inside Man’ is kind of a throw back to that era’s preoccupations.
Ironic, because according to IMDB, the director doing El Robo Del Siglo was an intern on Inside Man!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1033668/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
Isn’t this a similar plot to the inside man by spike lee? That movie came out around the same time as well. 2006
So the lesson is if you come up with a clever way to rob a bank, don't worry about making a clean getaway. Make a movie, like Inside Man.
Seems to have some bugs arond movies with the same title. For example, I clicked on "inside man":
1. Navigate to https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/inside-man
2. Observe the photos and descriptions for the 2006 denzel washington version
3. Click on the "prime instant video" streaming link
4. Observe that the movie starts playing but it is the much older "Dennis hopper" movie of the same name
Also (and easier): Movie running times and metadata.
Check out this query: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=inside+man+running+time
It's just taken from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Man
You could go one better by handling: "inside man release date" "inside man gross revenue" "inside man starring"
Yeah, but don't forget it's also up to the consumer not to steal the producer's creation.
What a useless argument. I will give you a very specific example which happened to me the other day, that will show you that content producers/distributors are (for lack of a better word) fucking it all up for their paying customers.
I live in Australia, so things on iTunes are not always available due to licensing deals. These licensing deals however sometimes have their little quirks.
I went looking at TV episodes a few weeks ago, some shows were available, some were not.
The worst offenders were the shows that had missing seasons. Specifically, there was one show that I remember that had only seasons 1, 3 and 5.
Now I at the time was a PAYING customer, willing to put up my CASH to obtain content LEGALLY - yet was unable too. Why? Bad distribution deals.
Now if I was to jump onto any torrent tracker, I could have downloaded all of those episodes, from all seasons for FREE with a MUCH larger selection of shows than what was legally available.
The fact is, that content producers/distributors are providing a bad experience for end users.
Ever tried accessing hulu from outside the US without using some kind of hack to make you pretend your within the US? You can't - there goes another legal distribution point.
Right now, for the end user, these torrent trackers are not only beating the content producers/distributors on price point (free) but also on ease of accessing that information.
There is something very wrong when the path of least resistance is often unlawful.
If they really want to fix the problem, they really need to look at it from the users perspectives.. which is to make it as simple as possible for someone to pay for that content, with a good end user experience and make that content convenient and readily available.
Anything less is unacceptable, the rules have changed - they should at least make a reasonable attempt at playing the new game.
EDIT - Lastly regarding the film industry (and this is my favourite ironic point that I like to bring up) you have an industry that glorifies theft in their films. Ever watched Gone in 60 Seconds, The Italian Job, Inside Man, The Oceans 11 movies etc... Who are the heroes of these films?
In that vein, I'd recommend Inside Man:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/