The annual Christmas Eve rewatch. :) I think this is probably my favorite Spielberg film so it feels fitting to watch it after The Fabelmans. Which has actually given it some interesting juxtaposition – esp. with the deteriorating family.
Random thoughts:
- Every time I watch this I think that maybe, just maybe, this time Brenda won’t snitch and she and Frank will run off and be a super con couple together.
- The casting in this is so good. Leo is really believable as Walken’s son. He brings that in his performance as well – aside from the accent, there are some tics that are very subtle but very accurate to Christopher Walken.
- “What‘s she gonna be? A shoe salesman at a centipede farm?”
- “Frank… you’re not a Lutheran?”
- Throughout the year, if Anna and I are talking and someone who’s named Frank comes up in convo, I have like this muscle memory impulse to say “Frahnk. Frahnk. Hahd you pass the bah in Lwisiana Frahnk.”
