The ice-cream vendor drives, changing gears. The kid now walks, a red bandana masks his face and a hat hides his hair. The blond child wears a hood and watches something with binoculars. The black child, with his face concealed under a violet bandana and hood, walks with the detonator in his hand — the blond, half-hidden kid watching him while the other boy loads his hand-made slingshot.
A small explosion generates some smoke and disturbs the driver. Structure : after all these preparations, the real catalyst finally takes place. Dramatic question : will they succeed? The driver gets out of his truck and slides on the marbles. He throws packaged ice-cream in the bag that the other child is holding for him. Structure : in three steps , the children realize their plan of attack: Act II, development. The Middle Eastern child arrives and smashes the hand of the ice-cream vendor in the truck door with a violent kick in order to free his friend.
While the driver reacts to the pain, the kids run away. The Middle Eastern one turns around while running to look back at the scene. Structure : this scene forms the crisis fight between the Hero and the Antagonist and the climax hand smashed, friend freed of Act III. More like this. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia The song was released on December 23, exclusively via Beatport while being released on other digital retailers on December 27, User reviews Be the first to review.
Details Edit. Release date February 16, United States. United States. HK Corp. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 3 minutes. The fact that their goal is about on par with the criminal geniuses that run snatch-and-grabs on the freezer case at the Kwiki Mart is a neat little comic subversion.
So far so great. It would stand as a brilliant deconstruction of the whole heist genre. The heists always run like a well oiled clock: we want to be a gear in that clock. In comparison to our own jobs, which mostly involve a lot of pointless meetings and TPS reports, they present us with a world where serious men and one serious love interest perform serious tasks to accomplish serious goals.
Heist criminals are more grown up than we are in the audience. Our belief in this proposition is context specific, of course: I doubt I would think Danny Ocean is more serious than I am while I am doing my taxes, but I never encounter him when I am doing my taxes. I encounter him in movie theaters, where I am passively vegetating and eating popcorn, and he is the prime mover of a universe of interlocking gears.
The heist as a crime is a triumph of rationality. We love it when a plan comes together for the very specific reason that it shows us the triumph of order over chaos. The heist ringleader imposes his will upon the world, and in reward the world dances to his tune. The money is just a way of keeping score. Transplanting this into the world of children exposes an interesting double-bluff.
At first, a kiddie heist seems so natural. For all that I was talking about his rationality half a paragraph ago, Danny Ocean pretty decidedly unserious.
Except not really. When it comes to the job, Ocean, and the whole team, even Casey Affleck, are serious as a heart attack. Professionalism is the highest of values, and the fact that Ocean can crack wise while maintaining his professionalism shows just how badass he really is.
He cracks wise like a surgeon cracks wise, like a fighter pilot, like a secret agent. Some people goof off to disrupt the rules, because they are threatened by the rules.
Others goof off precisely because they are not threatened by the rules, which are their own. But then again, really they are. Suddenly seeing a heist done by kids, who are giddy, makes us realize that this in fact was always what heists were about.
None of us have ever, even once, taken part in a daring casino heist, but many of us have played cops and robbers. George Clooney goofing off and playing with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, a child, what we once were, and left behind. The first couple of minutes of the video delve into the archetype of the badass-man-of-action-working-in-grim-silence-on-a-complex-plan-with-other-badass-men-of-action, and exposes it as a juvenile power fantasy.
The fact that the prize is just a bag of ice cream plays into this too. But then the rest of the video happens. I still enjoy it right up to the point where rocket launcher fires, mostly because they got an actor who looks — for only a second, and through a bandana — just plausibly like a young Dante Basco. That the kid feels bad about the arm, and makes restitution — maybe even sets up the second heist just to make restitution.
But even that narrative is totally incoherent. He feels really bad about his crime, so he tries to make up for it by committing exactly the same crime? If they had put in another punchline, where instead of money or jewels, the armored car turned out to be full of ice cream, that would have been hilarious, suggesting that even the adult version of the heist game is just a silly lark.
But such luck, the truck is carrying money.
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