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Out of Sight (1998)
In Steven Soderbergh's sexy crime caper-thriller:
- the reassuring and calm words of charming career
bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney), without a gun, to convince
nervous SunTrust Bank teller Loretta Randall (Donna Frenzel) to
load up a bag with lots of unmarked $100s, $50s, and $20 dollar
bills: "Is this your first time being robbed? (she nodded)
You're doing great. Just smile, Loretta, so you don't look like
you're being held up. You got a very pretty smile"
- outside the bank, Foley was unable to flee when his
cheap car's carburetor flooded and he was quickly apprehended without
incident by an armed officer
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Bank Robber Jack (George Clooney) to Teller:
"You're doing great"
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Flooded Escape Car
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- two years later, the scene of Foley's exciting Florida
jail break when he escaped from the Glades Correctional Institution
disguised in the uniform of a guard; although wielding a shotgun
in the parking lot, Deputy Federal Marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer
Lopez) was taken as a kidnapped hostage with the help of Foley's
cohort Buddy Bragg (Ving Rhames)
- the very memorable and erotically-flirtatious, dialogue-rich
scene in the trunk of Sisco's own car, driven by Buddy; the conversation
was between Foley and Karen who exchanged sexy quips and banter (a
discussion of Faye Dunaway films, such as Bonnie and Clyde, Network, and Three
Days of the Condor) during the ride: "You must really see
yourself as some kind of Clyde Barrow, huh?...In that part where
they get shot, I remember thinkin' to myself, that wouldn't be such
a bad way to go, if you had to. You sure are easy to talk to. I was
thinkin', if we met under different circumstances, if you were in
a bar and I came up and we started talking, I wonder what would happen...if
you didn't know who I was...just saying if we met under different
circumstances..."
Trunk Getaway Car Scene
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Sisco Dragged to Her Own Car's Trunk
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Sexy Banter Inside Trunk
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- the momentary instant that Foley and Karen caught
sight of each other - he was in an elevator going down to the Parking
Garage Level, and he glimpsed her seated in Buddy's apartment lobby
during a police operation against Foley and his gang: ("She
just looked right at me...Karen...Yeah. She's in the lobby")
- the later sexual encounter between Foley and Karen
in which they flirtatiously called each other different names (Gary
and Celeste) during a conversation in a Detroit hotel bar-lounge
over drinks, with snow falling outside; at first, he complimented
her: "I like your hair. I like your outfit"
- their conversation conveyed their feelings of "What
if?" - Foley mentioned the chance nature of their meeting and
their obvious attraction to each other; he countered her idea that
they were playing a game:
"It's not a game. It's not something you play"; when she
then asked: "Well, does this make any sense to you?" - he
delivered a long response: ("It doesn't have to. It's something
that happens. It's like seeing someone for the first time, like you
could be passing on the street, and, and you look at each other and
for a few seconds, there's this kind of a recognition, like you both
know something. The next moment, the person's gone, and it's too late
to do anything about it. And you always remember it, because it was
there, and you let it go, and you think to yourself: 'What if I had
stopped? What if I had said something? What if? What if?' And it may
only happen a few times in your life")
- minutes later, the cross-cutting scene of them at
the bar - and also in a penthouse hotel room (she had told him:
"Let's get outta here"), where they kissed, undressed (she
performed a strip-tease for him in front of the windows) and they got
into bed before making love
- the final stairway showdown between a masked Foley
and Karen during a safe robbery inside billionaire insider-trader
Richard Ripley's (Albert Brooks) posh Detroit-area estate-mansion
on a snowy night, when Foley was confronted by her at the top of
the stairs and he wouldn't surrender or put his gun down: ("I'm
not going back...No more time outs"); although she begged him:
("Jack, please, don't make me do this. Put the gun down. Damn
it, Jack, put the gun down!"); she was forced to shoot him in
the leg ("You win, Jack"); and then she apologized: ("I'm
sorry. I wish things were different")
Final Stairway Showdown During Detroit Mansion
Robbery
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Karen: "I'm sorry. I wish things were different"
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- in the film's conclusion, the apprehended Foley
was loaded into the back of a prison transport van to return to
imprisonment in Florida at Glades; he would share the long ride
(and lots of stories) with another repeat (nine-time) escapee,
Islamic Hejira Henry (Samuel L. Jackson); the inmate claimed his
name referenced 'Mohammed's flight from Mecca in 622'; in the front
passenger seat, Karen smiled - in addition to his favorite cigarette
lighter, Hejira was her "present" to Foley to keep him
entertained and informed during the "long ride to Florida" back
to jail
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Deputy Federal Marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez) With
a Shotgun - Attempting to Stop Florida Prison Break
In Apartment Elevator, Foley's View of a Startled
Karen Seated in Lobby
Foley's Date with Karen in Detroit Hotel - "What
if?"
Kissing
Flirtations - Cross-Cutting Striptease
Last Scene - Foley in Prison Van
Hejira
(Samuel L. Jackson)
Karen Smiling
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