And he spent something like five or ten years hanging around with hackers and computer security people in order to get the tech right.
it's SNEAKERS!
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And he spent something like five or ten years hanging around with hackers and computer security people in order to get the tech right.
RobertScorpio
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I don't really consider it sci-fi either, but Sneakers is a lot of fun. The final scene with Abbott is a riot, especially when Whistler tells them what he wants:
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will towards men.
Abbott: We're the United States government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will towards men.
Abbott: We're the United States government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Or the exchange about the blonds number...
Bishop: "Abbey, the CIA would get him twins."
Abbott: "Enough!"
Or the exchange about the blonds number...
Bishop: "Abbey, the CIA would get him twins."
Abbott: "Enough!"
"I'm Karl."
"I'm Mary"
Abbott: "I'm going to be sick!"
This movie is not only highly entertaining, but consistently very clever and witty. It deserves to be more remembered.
This is also one of the more quotable movies around, second only to The Princess Bride.
"Figi is not in Europe!"
"Organized Crime?"
"Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized."
This is also one of the more quotable movies around, second only to The Princess Bride.
"Figi is not in Europe!"
"Organized Crime?"
"Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized."
RobertScorpio
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Does anyone know if this movie was a hit? Because hardly no one I know, outside of genre fans,,,,
Rob
Rob
RobertScorpio
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I wonder,if all these years later, they could try and make a sequel with some of the first crew, with a new crew.
Rob
Ugh... no sequels. Why the hell does Hollywood have to try and franchise everything? And why do we have to try and franchise what they're not interested in franchising? 
I think you might be right there...
Redford is 72 now and Poitier is 82. I don't think they or any of the original cast would be doing much sneaking these days.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Okay..Redford has a cameo and you have someone younger, Brad Pitt, and a new team...in fact, maybe Kingsley's character had a son, and he is the new bad guy (Jude Law)
ROb
I seriously doubt a sequel could work. Theoretically the "Sneakers" world of 2009 would be unrecognizable from our own. The original ended in 1992 with Martin Bishop's first efforts at changing society with the decoder chip. He bankrupted the Republican Party. Think of those ramifications. What else might he have done for the greater good, a greater good that he himself defined? Sure the ending was tongue in cheek, but Martin actually took the first step in becoming exactly like Cosmo.
You know... I always took that as sort of the end message of the movie. About how power corrupts. He took the chip from Cosmo because he knew no one should have that amount of power. He kept it from the NSA because he knew that they shouldn't have that power...
Then he fell into using that power he knew no one should have.
It's the ultimate moral of the story.
Lirerally, too many secrets.
I never really put any thought into that last scene before. Looking at it the way you do, it suddenly becomes a much darker, edgier movie, doesn't it?
I've noticed in the past that that last moment in the film seems to fly over everyone's head. They all laugh a little and think it was just a funny joke afterthought.
I've always seen it as the wrap up little zinger.
As for darker, I've always seen Sneakers as a bit of a Noir style film. It's Twilight, it straddles the line between light and dark.
It's also too smart for it's own good, which is why it's genius is lost on so many and it's been relegated to "cult classic".
This movie has been my bench mark that I have held other films up against for many years because it's so much of an onion film. It's got so many layers to it that years later people are still discovering new things about it, and it touches so many different areas; action, comedy, drama, science, political thriller, crime story, ect. It's all subtle and small but it's all there.
The story shows us that, in the end, Martin Bishop was neither redeemed nor reformed. His playful Robin Hood "pranks" of stealing from the Establishment in 1969 destroyed two lives, his own and Cosmo's. He hid in the shadows for 23 years and jeopardized the safety of his closest friends... friends who never knew what he really was. Gregor knew, and was killed for it. Liz knew, and it brought her no happy ending. But miraculously Martin's past is wiped clean, and he's given the first chance in two decades to start anew. So what does he do with his Get Out of Jail card? Exactly what he did in 1969. He plays Robin Hood again and steals from the Establishment. Only this time he's got the ultimate lock-pick.
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