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by Me Again_Archive
Reposting this from elsewhere, as I watched Bad Lieutenant for the first time last night (the somewhat censored R version on Hulu, but I was able to find some of the NC-17 footage on YouTube):In the final shot, Harvey Keitel's bad lieutenant is killed in his car while parked alongside a large advertisement for...Trump Plaza.The ad declares, "It all happens here."Beneath these words, from right to left, there are pictures of what looks like a hotel room, plates of food, a slot machine, Evander Holyfield, and a roulette wheel.Then, at the very left of the frame, one can just make out a picture of Bill Cosby."It all happens here," huh?I'll bet.Hindsight being 20-20, Ferrara couldn't have ended the film with a more appropriate image unless it also happened to include a crucifix, an MLB logo, a police badge, a smoking pistol, and/or a little uncut mound of the white stuff folded in cheap newspaper.