{"id":17768,"date":"2025-08-12T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17768"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:39:47","slug":"bringing-out-the-dead-1999-martin-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17768","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Out The Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if it was worth two whole hours just to see Ving Rhames revive I.B. Bangin&#8217; (played by Paul Simon&#8217;s son, who exec-produced <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17653\">Pavements<\/a><\/em>), but the movie also has other pleasures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/bringing1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mary Beth Hurt is the nurse who debriefs the patients, asking why they deserve help.<br \/>\nHospital security guard Griss, who wears sunglasses and third-persons himself, has been in everything from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8373\">Sankofa<\/a><\/em> to the worst(?) <em>Terminator<\/em> sequel. <em>The Wire<\/em>&#8216;s Kima and Omar get a minute of screen time each before they&#8217;re killed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/bringing5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cage and Arquette are both sleepwalking addicts, wearily observing the chaos of the city, until he takes decisive action by mercy-killing her life-supported dad. Cage&#8217;s haunting by a girl he couldn&#8217;t save is achieved by some <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11026\">Scorpion King<\/a><\/em>-caliber CG face replacement. The dealer who gets fence-impaled was a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/346\">Sunshine<\/a><\/em> spaceman and the manic suicidal neighbor who Tom Sizemore maybe murders is pop star\/NFL owner Marc Anthony.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/bringing2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/bringing3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/bringing4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if it was worth two whole hours just to see Ving Rhames revive I.B. Bangin&#8217; (played by Paul Simon&#8217;s son, who exec-produced Pavements), but the movie also has other pleasures. Mary Beth Hurt is the nurse who debriefs the patients, asking why they deserve help. Hospital security guard Griss, who wears sunglasses and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,3422,2081,48,636,614,2949,3410],"class_list":["post-17768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-ambulance","tag-car-crash","tag-john-goodman","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-patricia-arquette","tag-ving-rhames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17780,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions\/17780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}