Thief 4K 1981

“Thief” is such a very real-life Michael Mann movie vocabulary in its first version. A crime muvi in its own juice, proto-Capture, night views from “The Accomplice” without the appropriate technical basis, blood just like in “Miami Vice” and a whole bag of interesting details for those who love Michael's movies.

Mann has been honing his own style since his first full-fledged big screen debut. He takes his time when showing the break-in scenes. Whether it's breaking into a safe, a door, or some other thieving trick, Michael makes it clear what the real “labor” of the people that prison cries for is. Where someone will shoot the drilling of a safe in 20 seconds, Mann presses his hardcore, successfully stretches the scene. Subconsciously you realize that it is not on camera two wires to start a car or a light movement to break a lock.

The main character named Frank, as always with Michael, seems to be a bastard, a thief, but almost Robin Hood (only very rich robbed) and in general is like De Niro's character from “The Clash” - all of himself is a chess player, three steps ahead, thinks everything through, also gets angry when they try to screw him over, also wants to get a beautiful house and an understanding other half. There is only one small personal problem - De Niro I believe in 80% of cases, and James Caan's face is too villainous somehow, since childhood when watching “The Eraser” in my head that he is a rare bastard and now it is hard to perceive the actor. However, he plays well, and when he starts to get mad and threaten - just a peek. In the main partners he has James Belushi. Like and play it there is absolutely nothing to play, but pleases the eye, a kind of greeting from the times when little known Belushi could star in the debutant Mann, who produced the budding Jerry Bruckheimer.

The plot, as in “The Clash” is not that very complex, but thoughtful, and script points of contact between the tapes a lot, but not so bright and obvious. Helpers of the protagonist, customers, cops - a little mix, add a scene of conversation in a cafe in the late evening (or night, like not to make out), a rather savory shootout and a few lyrical digressions about the fate of the protagonist.

On the whole, it turned out to be a strong movie, though not without flaws. The same “Fight”, I think I came out so monolithic because of the long lying in Manovskih script (since 1983, this is not a joke) - Michael 10 times could have time to complement the action a handful of new techniques, go through a file on the old, a dozen more crime novels to read. In “Thief” all of this, I repeat, in some embryonic state, without stars and a serious budget, but fans still dug tape, very much loved, and some crazy even the best work of the master called.