The Dead end

the Dead end ( Carlito' S Way ) is a film of Brian De Palma left in 1993.

Synopsis

Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino), former lord of drug, is released from prison thanks to the chicaneries of a lawyer, David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn) completely accro with cocaine. With only one idea at the head: to line up cars, to take down, build a new life far from the crimes and of the additive.

But the destiny is baited on him, the underworld invades its night club, the young ambitious gangsters proliferate, the murders, the tension… all starts again, like front. Besides one of these young gangsters is pointed out, it acts of Benny Blanco, the man of Bronx. Carlito and its band are besides constrained at the end to throw it out of Night Club, but Brigante decides to leave it in life.

But a true problem intervenes suddenly, brought by David Kleinfeld. This last requires of him to help it to leave prison a former customer who makes him threats via his son. After long negotiations, Carlito Brigante accepts.

Comes then the great day. All occurs well until, at the time of taking its customer, Kleinfeld, surcocaïné, keep silent Frank, the son of Tony, before killing Tony himself by giving him large blows on the face with a pole until it drowns then Carlito Brigante. David Kleinfeld was avenged: the threats made against him in fact applied to this former customer.

But the reprisals are not made wait. Both put the police force and the Maffia Sicilian at back. The latter will send somebody to kill Kleinfeld in his room of hospital. Carlito Brigante had understood that the Maffia was in the hospital, but it decides to discharge the weapon from Kleinfeld so that it is sure that the lawyer cannot draw some. The Maffia thus manages without problem to kill lawyer, but it did not finish any. Indeed, it knows that Carlito Brigante was in the boat and wants to thus kill it.

Carlito, it, want to leave, far, with his wife who carries her baby. For that, it thus goes to the station, but four Italian is with its cases. Then begin a race-continuation without mercy in the station. But, at one time, it is overdraft laid down in the escalators and is obliged to draw on the four. Miraculeusement, it is left there, and it arrives just in time on the quay. but, on the spot, he learns that his/her faithful friend and bodyguard, charged to bring the woman of Carlito in the train, betrayed it: he gave it to Benny Blanco because it was necessary that it " think of its avenir". The young gangster is avenged: he kills Carlito Brigante, but also his friend, although he was used to him as indic'.

Data sheet

  • Title: the Dead end
  • original Title: Carlito' S Way
  • Realization: Brian De Palma
  • Scenario: David Koepp, according to the novels Carlito' S way and After Hours of Edwin Torres
  • Production: Martin Bregman, Michael S. Bregman and Willi Baer

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The Dead end was a half failure at the time of its exit. The fans of Scarface awaited a form of continuation and the general public a film minus melancholic person. The duration of film of approximately 2:30 completed to handicap it. However, the film had from the start a great number of defenders. In the United States, Quentin Tarantino declared being gone to see it five times including two last only for the pleasure of the final continuation which lasts approximately 30 min and constitutes a film in film. In France, the Cahiers of the Cinema devoted very eulogistic articles to the film, including one in particular by Antoine de Baecque, which analyzes the part of billiards in an article entitled " Passage of the Blanche" Ball; (there is also a word game because the historical buildings of the Books are located in the passage of the White Ball at Bastille). Télérama, which is often tepid with the scenario writer, regarded the Dead end as a good film of kind. During the first televised diffusions the newspaper went even until saying that Of palma had become a scenario writer with the Dad, without heart nor audacity. But the Books will bring back film to the foreground by classifying it in the prize list of ten best films of the Nineties. In 2000, an young generation of film enthusiasts and criticisms redécouvre the film and carries it to the pinnacle. Télérama reconsiders its opinion then, qualifies film of chief of work and rents his dimension shaekespearienne…

The Dead end is an enthralling police film and an human drama of a sumptuous beauty. The film opens on the death of the character stopped in full race but until the last second the spectator will hope for that it will be left there, it is there all the brilliance of a setting in scene which forsakes excesses and the baroque of Scarface to go towards a classicism which agrees better with the tragic side of work. Carlito character alone in the world does not have a house and always gets dressed in black, it is a death among the alive ones and death is on its passage. As often at Palma, the film shines by the direction of actor (and its exceptional distribution: Al Pacino at the head) and cutting. It should be noted that the format of the film 2:35, of the cinemascope, handicaps its diffusions TVS. TF1 for example zoome in the image of film and the recadre to diffuse it in 4:3. The natural place of this film is with the cinema what will return justice to scenes as splendid as: the part of billiards, the surrounding of Carlito, the final continuation… and make it possible to see that Of palma is a Master of the use of the Depth of field to equal of Orson Welles.

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