i really have a mickey rourke problem. like, i'm way too attracted to him now when he's all plastic and creepy and gross. but, there's something about him. i saw diner a long time ago before he made his come back and he just looked like bruce willis but less good looking. so, i watched the pope of greenwich village, which is from 1984, making mickey rourke 32 in the movie. he's interesting young, but i'm still really attracted to him. he's a lot like logan from veronica mars.
the pope of greenwich village has mickey rourke as an italian, new york guy working and stealing from a restaurant, dating a girl and working very hard on his look. his cousin, eric roberts (julia robert's half brother, i think) ropes mickey into a plan to steal money from a safe, which slowly totally blows up in their face with the mob and eric losing his thumb and everyone losing all kinds of things.
mickey really stays almost silent the whole movie but he has this amazing power behind him. there's a strong contrast between him and his cousin because the cousin talks all the time and seems really dumb and mickey manages to not seem dumb.
there are some great lines about wasps out growing mickey and about how it's harder to be honest than to be a thief.
i don't know if i'd like this movie if it wasn't mickey rourke.
they have the same small mouth.
ReplyDeletematt used to watch this movie all the time when we lived in williamsburg. like, stay up all night and watch it over and over again. also, that star trek movie, the wrath of khan. young mickey is totally logan from veronica mars. i've never seen diner but everytime i talk to my mom about mickey rourke (which has been maybe 3 times in my life?) she talks about how great diner is. what's so great about it?
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