![]() Stumbling in his haste, Chico slams into a lamp post. The film plunges the viewer headlong into a chaotic, nocturnal world where a man, soon revealed to be Chico Saroyan (Albert Rémy), brother of Edouard, Charles Aznavour’s withdrawn pianist, is barreling down barely lit streets as unidentified pursuers are hot on his tail. Read More at VV - Know the Cast: ‘The Bear’īefore Truffaut gets to the more empirical dilemmas of Shoot the Piano Player, and its blatant departures from the generic tried and true, he initiates the story with a scene straight out of Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Here, Edouard Saroyan, alias Charlie Kohler, is perpetually surrounded - sometimes by inane strangers, sometimes by intimate associates –but he is also alone, “even when he is with someone.” In the face of it all, indeed, in order to face it all, he maintains an impenetrable front and an inscrutable expression that lasts from his introduction to Shoot the Piano Player’s final shot. ![]() ![]() In a sense, he gets it both ways with this 1960 underworld riff. ![]() Truffaut liked outsiders, those individuals on the margins of society, but he preferred them to be solitary figures, not belonging to a gang or clique. With Shoot the Piano Player, his film version of David Goodis’ 1956 novel, Down There, Truffaut took the author’s essential criminal framework and adjusted the tonal treatment of the gangster and the assessment of its unwitting protagonist. ![]()
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