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Daniel, If you like Paul Newman, you really should give it a try. It's one of his best performances!
The Color of Money (1986)
25 years after The Hustler, Paul Newman entrusted Martin Scorsese with the assignment of directing a kind of 'sequel' to The Hustler. Although, it's not really a sequel, because it doesn't really build further on the storyline of the original film. It only uses the character of Fat Eddie and a very minor black character again. It is, however, a MUST, in my opinion, to watch The Hustler first, because it gives the character of Fat Eddie way more depth and makes you understand his actions much better.
The film was not as intense and deep as The Hustler, but it certainly had its own qualities. For instance, the cinematography and the directing were AWESOME (what else did you expect from Scorsese?) and some of the scenes really were sweeter than sweets. The film also had a cool rock'n roll vibe!
The film features Paul Newman again as Fast Eddie and Tom Cruise as Vincent Lauria, a very talented and young pool player, that Eddie discovers in one of the bars where he's selling booze.
He takes Vincent and his girlfriend on the road to hustle people and Eddie recognizes himself in Vincent sometimes and tries to avoid that Vincent makes the same mistakes as he did.
Because of his love for the game and because he never had the chance to really become someone very important (you have to see the Hustler to understand that dimension) in the world of pool, although he had the talent, his hunger for succes starts to take over and after he's beaten by another hustler, he decides to get back in the game!
He leaves Vincent and his girlfriend alone, telling them he can't learn them anything else, and he starts hustling himself again. When he goes to a big pool tournament in Atlantic City, after he perfected his skills again, he once again meets his former pupil, who is now a full-blown hustler himself.
I enjoyed this movie a lot and it had some really interesting scenes both visually and dialogue wise.
My favorite visual scene was probably the mirror ball scene in the end and my favorite dialogue scene was when Paul Newman told Vincent's girlfriend to stop flirting with him, because they are partners. While thinking about the movie, I keep raking up great moments. I enjoyed it a lot! My rating for this movie:
(-)
The Color of Money (1986)
25 years after The Hustler, Paul Newman entrusted Martin Scorsese with the assignment of directing a kind of 'sequel' to The Hustler. Although, it's not really a sequel, because it doesn't really build further on the storyline of the original film. It only uses the character of Fat Eddie and a very minor black character again. It is, however, a MUST, in my opinion, to watch The Hustler first, because it gives the character of Fat Eddie way more depth and makes you understand his actions much better.
The film was not as intense and deep as The Hustler, but it certainly had its own qualities. For instance, the cinematography and the directing were AWESOME (what else did you expect from Scorsese?) and some of the scenes really were sweeter than sweets. The film also had a cool rock'n roll vibe!
The film features Paul Newman again as Fast Eddie and Tom Cruise as Vincent Lauria, a very talented and young pool player, that Eddie discovers in one of the bars where he's selling booze.
He takes Vincent and his girlfriend on the road to hustle people and Eddie recognizes himself in Vincent sometimes and tries to avoid that Vincent makes the same mistakes as he did.
Because of his love for the game and because he never had the chance to really become someone very important (you have to see the Hustler to understand that dimension) in the world of pool, although he had the talent, his hunger for succes starts to take over and after he's beaten by another hustler, he decides to get back in the game!
He leaves Vincent and his girlfriend alone, telling them he can't learn them anything else, and he starts hustling himself again. When he goes to a big pool tournament in Atlantic City, after he perfected his skills again, he once again meets his former pupil, who is now a full-blown hustler himself.
I enjoyed this movie a lot and it had some really interesting scenes both visually and dialogue wise.
My favorite visual scene was probably the mirror ball scene in the end and my favorite dialogue scene was when Paul Newman told Vincent's girlfriend to stop flirting with him, because they are partners. While thinking about the movie, I keep raking up great moments. I enjoyed it a lot! My rating for this movie:
(-)