Film Critique: The Asphalt Jungle
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- The scene within Dix's apartment.
- Dix's story about the loss of his father's farm.
- An example of how humanness and human weakness could be found in all strata of society.
- Brannom: An ironic and somewhat contradictory character.
- Conclusion.
- Film cited.
Abstract
The first wave of urgency to escape the world of corruption, greed, and immorality inside the shady underground of the urban city ("the jungle"), is brought forth by protagonists Dix Handley and Alonzo Emmerich in two scenes of John Huston's The asphalt jungle. The first scene takes place in Dix's apartment as he talks to Doll Conovan about his aspirations to go back to his old farm in Kentucky, and the second scene is in Emmerich's study as he plots his escape the country with his detective Bob Brannom. Both Dix and Emmerich are determined to leave, and will seemingly stop at nothing to do so, even if it means stepping further into the jungle. Emmerich himself admits the irony: he's paradoxically forced to dig a deeper hole (in committing the crime) and become more immersed in the corrupt culture of the jungle in order to escape that same world.
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