{"id":10596,"date":"2016-10-21T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=10596"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:32:22","slug":"bfi-lff-review-dog-eat-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/film-tv\/bfi-lff-review-dog-eat-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"BFI LFF Review: Dog Eat Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the post-screening Q+A, director Paul Schrader stated that there were too many filmmakers that thought &#8216;inside the box&#8217;, and those that claimed to &#8216;think outside the box, are actually still in the box&#8217;. As such, he chose to have many first time filmmakers (what he calls the &#8216;post-rules generation&#8217;) work on <em>Dog Eat Dog; <\/em>however he probably needs to realise that basic coherency isn&#8217;t a rule, it&#8217;s common filmic sense.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dog Eat Dog\u252c\u00e1<\/em>is about three ex-convicts, Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe), Troy (Nicolas Cage) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) who are hired by a mob boss (played by Schrader himself) to kidnap a baby to be held for ransom. However, after wildcard Mad Dog makes a fatal error, they find themselves running from both the mob and the cops. The film is full of hyper-violence set against highly stylised settings, as the three main characters cause gratuitously murderous mayhem in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10609\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Dog Eat Dog\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9-414x232.jpg 414w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/Wilhem-16x9.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Schrader warned before the\u252c\u00e1screening\u252c\u00e1that it would be highly offensive, however it was all\u252c\u00e1so generically crass\u252c\u00e1that it ended up being\u252c\u00e1boring and something not worthy of being offended by. Strip club scenes, gory murders, dick jokes about a baby, sporadic and misplaced racist language &#8211; none of this was even provocative, it was just unfortunate and didn&#8217;t garner much response or laughs from the audience. The script was generally tolerable though, and the storyline\u252c\u00e1was entertaining enough, however the reason I couldn&#8217;t stop watching was because I was trying to figure out the visually confusing mess.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to be innovative and <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/film-tv\/experimental-cinema\/\">experimental in cinema<\/a>\u252c\u00e1does not have to be at the cost\u252c\u00e1of coherent film language. 1920s avant-garde and surrealist films are communicable and coherent despite breaking all the rules that Schrader claims this &#8216;post-rule generation&#8217; to also be doing. Yet, in <em>Dog Eat Dog<\/em>, the so-called experimentation does not make any sense. Ignoring the 180 degree rule for no apparent reason\u252c\u00e1does not make for interesting cinema; it makes a simple conversation about stereotypical &#8216;criminal talk&#8217; a disorientating affair. There were jump cuts that pushed the subject of the frame\u252c\u00e1from the far left to the far right of the screen sporadically,\u252c\u00e1making\u252c\u00e1the viewer have to turn their head from side to side until they gave up and looked at the ceiling instead. None of the director&#8217;s\u252c\u00e1choices seemed to be grounded in any sound reasoning (for instance, in the Q+A Schrader said that the reason the strip club scenes was in black and white were simply because no other film had done it in monochrome). He also\u252c\u00e1said that the film was heavily influenced by different directors and their styles &#8211; some of which could possibly be Tarantino, Scorsese, Almodovar, Godard, whoever directed <em>Shaft &#8211; <\/em>and it resulted in a something that\u252c\u00e1felt like it was made by 20 different film students individually, then cut together to make a final piece; and the director\u252c\u00e1failed to convincingly justify\u252c\u00e1this thoughtlessly eclectic car crash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10612\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Dog Eat Dog\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1-414x232.jpg 414w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dogeatdog_still_1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were parts of <em>Dog Eat Dog<\/em>\u252c\u00e1that I\u252c\u00e1did like, such as \u252c\u00e1the opening scene&#8217;s colour scheme of a barbie pink house with a neon-blue lit bathroom &#8211; although the director later said that this idea was directly lifted out of another film he admires. I also liked the dream sequence that ended the film wherein Troy\u252c\u00e1takes on a Humphrey Bogart persona and enters a stand-off with the police in a flurry of colour and smoke. However, in the Q+A, Schrader more or less\u252c\u00e1said that this scene was just thrown in there willy-nilly in the name of experimenting with a different kind of ending. And the Bogart impersonation\u252c\u00e1from Nicolas Cage was stuck in by the actor himself during filming because he knew he could play around with the loose script of a\u252c\u00e1low-key\u252c\u00e1movie. It&#8217;s quite unfortunate that the only\u252c\u00e1good bits of the film weren&#8217;t even consciously thought out. It must be said that the acting was notably strong though. Willem Dafoe&#8217;s wildcard character was entertaining and consistent, whilst Cage&#8217;s\u252c\u00e1acting, having always walked the line between the ridiculous and the brilliant, was right at home in this strange film. I really did enjoy watching them together on screen alongside\u252c\u00e1Christopher Matthew Cook to form a dynamic gang that seemed to have a believable and natural rapport with each other. The acting couldn&#8217;t save the film from its major issues with coherency though.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dog Eat Dog<\/em> is a confused film that clearly had very little thought put into it, parading as an attempt to experiment with cinema. But bear in mind that this is Paul Schrader, a talented figure in cinema who co-wrote great Scorsese films such as <em>Raging Bull<\/em> and <em>Taxi Driver<\/em>. As such, it begins to feel like this terrible film was simply made as a pastime, a bit of fun for someone who knows he can get support from great actors and the funding. I suppose, then, there&#8217;s no point in being annoyed at this film as even Schrader seemed to have a sense of awareness, stressing in his Q+A several times that &#8216;<em>Dog Eat Dog<\/em> is not a serious film&#8217;, and not to worry because his next film would be &#8216;nothing like this one&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the post-screening Q+A, director Paul Schrader stated that there were too many filmmakers that thought &#8216;inside the box&#8217;, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":10608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2619,3075,746,3063,3077,3078,3076],"class_list":["post-10596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-bfi","tag-dog-eat-dog","tag-film-review","tag-london-film-festival","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-paul-schrader","tag-willem-dafoe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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