Hall and the veteran costume designer Albert Wolsky, drew visual ideas and moods from old movies and comic books, distilling the memory of crime fiction-not the memory of crime-into imagery that couldn't possibly be more iconic: the flat farmland and grim industrial cities of the Midwest the black Fords and Buicks, their rectangular tops gleaming in the wet as they steam along country roads the long-coated thugs, faces in shadow, inexorably going about their business in warehouses, in hotel rooms, in brothels, in the street. Mendes, along with his collaborators, the cinematographer Conrad L.
Precipitation of such intensity is not really a form of weather it's closer to a spiritual condition, a portent of sin and violence in a fallen world. Rain matters, too, buckets of it-I haven't seen rain come down quite this strenuously since the noir movies of the forties and fifties. "Road to Perdition," which is directed by the talented Englishman Sam Mendes ("American Beauty"), is not as eccentric as "Crossing," but fedoras do matter in it, as do long dark coats, and the thick weave and bulk of men's suits from 1931. In that tale of baroque complication, the Coens included such oddball visual motifs as a fedora flying through the autumn woods. Readers will eat it up and beg for more." Publishers Weekly "Collins not only gives you a great mob novel, but a serious family drama that blows away anything The Sopranos has done."Road to Perdition," starring Tom Hanks as a Depression-era hit man, is a solemnly beautiful art concept-perhaps the most thoroughly stylized gangster picture since the Coen brothers' "Miller's Crossing," from 1990. Collins' compelling mix of history, bloodshed and retribution is irresistible. But nobody can save him from the mob's wrath.and once again the son of the Angel of Death finds himself on the road, this time with his 16-year-old daughter.his life-long struggle for redemption at odds with his thirst for revenge.
To save his family, Michael agrees to testify in return for a new life in the Witness Protection Program. The hit goes down anyway.and Michael is left holding the bag, becoming the target for bloody retribution. So when Godfather Sam Giancana orders him to eliminate a foe, Michael refuses. Michael Satariano, now middle-aged, is running a mob casino, his days of killing behind him. Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Max Allan Collins brings his acclaimed and unforgettable Perdition saga to a breathtaking conclusion.
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