At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
If Duck, You Sucker hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
What ties these together is loyalty under pressure and loss of innocence. The world both films live in revolves around family wounds passed down, national identity, and class and money. Same energy: dark comedy, melancholic, escalating, and slow build to explosion.
What ties these together is loyalty under pressure, redemption, and sacrifice. The world both films live in revolves around class and money, corrupt institutions, and poverty. The feel is the same: brutal, dark comedy, escalating, and slow build to explosion.
