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Damn you, wee Jessica!
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I suppose that maybe they could do something interesting for The Unusual Suspects, or The Usual Victims, or whatever. Maybe. But it would be an undertaking like unto no other sequel that I can think of. So very difficult to make it not suck.
And would someone please tell my brain to stop singing "Hey Keyser Soze Keyser Soze Keyser Soze" to the tune of "Macarena"? Thanks.
Would you prefer having "The DeNiro Merengue" earworm instead?
Gladiator 2: Russell WHO?
Gladiator 2: The Domination
G2: Rise of the Gladiator
You know, it's like the word Gladiator has lost all meaning.
Beyond the Valley of the Gladiators
Gladiator and the Chamber of Secrets
Gladiator 2: The Quickening
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Every time I hear the word Gladiator, I think of Elizabeth Taylor, drunk out of her mind, announcing the winner of best drama at the 2001 Golden Globes. "And the winner is......GLAAAD-IA-TOR!"
I think a backstory would weaken the character.
Let's be honest, here. The Usual Suspects varnished over a steaming pile of incoherence with a lot of style. It's excellently done, but the problem with steaming piles of incoherence is that they don't take well to further investigation.
Literally speaking, 70-80% of the shown scenes in that movie are flashbacks by an unreliable narrator. That's a lot of gaps that could be filled with waltzing clowns, or squirrel-duels, or lemon merengue pie.
The unreliable narrator angle is one of my favorite angles. Making another film threatens to fill in the unreliable bits with reliability, which will make it do in spades what so many sequels do, which is destroy the integrity of the original. We need to not know the real history of Keyser Soze, which parts really happened and which were embellished in the telling, either by Verbal Kint or by other characters talking about Soze in the film.
My rallying cry, growing fainter as the Dark Side grows stronger: SOME FILMS CANNOT HAVE SEQUELS. YOU ONLY GET TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE ONE.
So, the waltzing clowns are a no??
Damn.