Dick tracy movie script

Gangland enforcers broke the arms of an elderly news dealer this afternoon Stacks of newspapers were tossed in the gutter Lunchtime crowds were paralysed by the suddenness of the crime. Not a hand was raised in protest! Organized crime is their name.

Warren Beatty reveals his formula for turning a funny-papers flatfoot into a modern movie hero. I could look at them the way I looked at them when I was a kid — a bad guy was bad, a good guy was good, things were simpler and straightforward. With that goal in mind, Beatty set out to translate his vision to every aspect of the movie, from the script and the sets to the costumes, makeup, and entire color scheme. And I could have a tremendous amount of fun doing it. Summoning his brain trust-the sophisticated trio of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, production designer Richard Sylbert, and costume designer Milena Canonero — to his Los Angeles hilltop home, Beatty began searching for ways to translate the comic strip into Dick Tracy , the movie. How do we turn the two-dimensional copper into a three-dimensional character, the producer-director-star wanted to know.

The character of Dick Tracy has been around since , appearing daily in newspaper comic strips almost continuously since his debut, and achieving a level of popularity during his heyday that few other characters could aspire to. In just his first 20 years of existence, there were four Dick Tracy movie serials, four feature films, a TV series, and countless items of merchandise. That film attempted to kick off a wave of Tracymania unseen since the s.

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