Real Tight Crew, Huh?
Remember that scene in Heat when Michael picks up Waingro for the armored truck score in the beginning? It goes like this:
Waingro: You guys always work together?
Michael: All the time.
Waingro: Real tight crew, huh?
Michael: Real tight.
Waingro: Yeah, this works good I'd consider going again, you know.
Michael: Yeah, stop talking OK Slick.
I bring it up because I'm still wondering why Edward James Olmos isn't playing Castillo in the Miami Vice movie like he did in the show. He was offered the job but turned it down. There are strong rumors he didn't want to work with Colin Farrell and weaker ones that he was busy developing a talk show, but the end result is that he didn't reunite with Michael Mann, the king of real tight crews.
For the bad rap Mann gets in the press about brow-beating those around him, he still takes down scores with the same crews repeatedly. High profile examples include Jamie Foxx who worked with Mann on Ali, Collateral and Miami Vice; and Al Pacino who worked with Mann on Heat and The Insider. A low profile example is Tom Noonan who played Kelso (the wheelchair-bound bank score mastermind) in Heat and played a serial killer in Manhunter, Mann's prequel to Silence of The Lambs.
Another low profile example is Barry Shabaka Henley who played Daniel the trumpet playing jazz club owner in one of Collateral's most chilling scenes. But he won't be low profile for long because he's assumed the role of Castillo for the Vice movie. I didn't bother looking this up until today because, without Olmos, I just assumed there would be no Castillo in the film adaptation. I saw Henley on the previews and recognized him from Collateral, but didn't realize who he was playing.
I'm not sold on him as the grave, taciturn Castillo of old. How could anyone play that role with more ice in his veins than Olmos? I'll admit Henley sold me as the apologetic but proud Miles Davis disciple Daniel, but I'm highly dubious about his ability to deliver the meditative fury I expect from Castillo. Of any role that's a potential disappointment for this movie, this one is it.
Let's hope that Henley works good so I can consider going to see Vice again and again like I did Heat.
OK then, I'll stop talking now.
Waingro: You guys always work together?
Michael: All the time.
Waingro: Real tight crew, huh?
Michael: Real tight.
Waingro: Yeah, this works good I'd consider going again, you know.
Michael: Yeah, stop talking OK Slick.
I bring it up because I'm still wondering why Edward James Olmos isn't playing Castillo in the Miami Vice movie like he did in the show. He was offered the job but turned it down. There are strong rumors he didn't want to work with Colin Farrell and weaker ones that he was busy developing a talk show, but the end result is that he didn't reunite with Michael Mann, the king of real tight crews.
For the bad rap Mann gets in the press about brow-beating those around him, he still takes down scores with the same crews repeatedly. High profile examples include Jamie Foxx who worked with Mann on Ali, Collateral and Miami Vice; and Al Pacino who worked with Mann on Heat and The Insider. A low profile example is Tom Noonan who played Kelso (the wheelchair-bound bank score mastermind) in Heat and played a serial killer in Manhunter, Mann's prequel to Silence of The Lambs.
Another low profile example is Barry Shabaka Henley who played Daniel the trumpet playing jazz club owner in one of Collateral's most chilling scenes. But he won't be low profile for long because he's assumed the role of Castillo for the Vice movie. I didn't bother looking this up until today because, without Olmos, I just assumed there would be no Castillo in the film adaptation. I saw Henley on the previews and recognized him from Collateral, but didn't realize who he was playing.
I'm not sold on him as the grave, taciturn Castillo of old. How could anyone play that role with more ice in his veins than Olmos? I'll admit Henley sold me as the apologetic but proud Miles Davis disciple Daniel, but I'm highly dubious about his ability to deliver the meditative fury I expect from Castillo. Of any role that's a potential disappointment for this movie, this one is it.
Let's hope that Henley works good so I can consider going to see Vice again and again like I did Heat.
OK then, I'll stop talking now.
posted by JD at 12:34 AM
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