Mary Anne (Novielli) (A Shipping Clerk From Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy.) (An Insurance Salesman From Calascibetta, Sicily Who Died In 1971 Of Tuberculosis.) Joey Zasa In The Godfather Part III (1990), Fred Waitzkin In Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Dean Martin In The Rat Pack (1998), David Rossi On Criminal Minds (2007-Present.) Sterling Morton High School East, Cicero, Illinois, United States (1965)ī.F.A., Acting, The Theatre School At DePaul University, Previously The Goodman School Of Drama, Chicago, Illinois, United States (1969)Īctor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter, Writer, Director, And Voice Actor. Gold has become so hard-boiled, he doesn't even know how he sounds, until he hears himself through that woman's ears.J. We sense that Bobby Gold is not in touch with his Jewishness because, like a lot of his partners, he has let the job take over from the person. These are men, middle-aged, harassed, run down. Barry, substantial guys with good haircuts who smoke cigarettes like they need to. He uses the elements of traditional genres - the con game, the mistaken identity, the personal crisis, the cop picture - as a framework for movies that ask questions like: Who's real? Who can you trust? What do people really want? Here he has several of his favorite actors, who have grown up in Mamet stage productions: Mantegna, Macy, Jack Wallace, J. This is his third film as a writer-director (after “ House of Games” and “ Things Change”), and he is a filmmaker with a clear sense of how he wants to proceed. The movie crackles with energy and life, and with throwaway slang dialogue by Mamet, who takes realistic speech patterns and simplifies them into a kind of hammer-and-nail poetry. The two cases get all mixed up throughout the film - the black drug dealer on the run, the murdered old lady - and in a sense Bobby is not going to be able to figure out who did anything until he decides who he is. What Mamet is trying to do in “Homicide,” I think, is combine the structure of a thriller with the content of a soul-searching conversion process. Since Bobby Gold is Jewish, the doctor thinks, maybe he'll really care. You didn't see me.” But the old woman's son, who has the clout downtown, wants him assigned to the case. Macy), happens on the scene of the crime accidentally. Bobby, speeding toward the drug bust with his partner ( William H. She didn't need the money, but she refused to budge from the store, and she is shot dead in a robbery. The mother, a stubborn old lady, ran a corner store in a black ghetto. (The language in this film, like the dialogue in Sidney Lumet's “Q & A” last year, is staccato gutter dialect.) Gold is angry with the doctor because the doctor's mother got murdered, and the murder resulted in Gold being pulled off the big drug case. Throughout the movie, Mamet's characters use the bluntest street language in their racial and sexual descriptions, as if somehow getting the ugliness out into the open is progress. He gets in a scrape with a superior officer, who is black, and when the officer calls him a “kike,” he is ready to fight - but we sense his anger grows more out of departmental rivalries than a personal sense of insult. He does not think much about being Jewish. As the movie opens, Detective Bobby Gold, the Mantegna character, is a cop who places his job first and his personal identity last. “Homicide” is about a man waking up to himself. And because she heard him, she forces him to listen to himself. She knows something we also know: This cop himself is Jewish. The doctor's daughter has heard every foul, bitter word. Then the cop turns around, and he sees that he is not alone in the room.
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