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Dead Man's Shoes
Cast
Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Jo Hartley View AllCrew
Paddy Considine (Writer), Shane Meadows (Director), Shane Meadows (Writer) View All
Release: Sep. 29th, 2004
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
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Dead Man's Shoes
any thoughts on this film. has america had the opportunity to see it?
if you havent got it in America, i urge you to.
anyway: thoughts please......
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The films I've seen use different lighting, color (well, 24 7 was in B&W), film stock, added-in F/X (for example, why did all the flashbacks to what happened to Anthony have to be shot in black and white, have artificially-created "old-age" lines added in and be in a lower volume?) Actually, after the reveal is made, I can probably understand why those "flashbacks" are filmed in a similar style to the home movies shown at the beginning of the film since that's the way that older brother Richard (co-scripter Paddy Considine) remembers and relates to his kid brother (Toby Kebbell).

As a director, Meadows isn't shy about referencing the films that influenced Dead Man's Shoes' style - there are echoes of Straw Dogs, Get Carter and even First Blood in the tone but nothing is heavy-handed or blatent.