'Heart Of Gold'
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Mikey, I hear great things about Ong Bak and am definitely going to give it a go.
Oddly enough, The Protector, in retrospect, is making me appreciate Crank more than I did at the time. Not sure what that means except that I like my freaky, violent, jump cut/hallucinatory/chase-y cinema with a bit more humor and a few less endangered haffalumps .
In Reversal of Fortune, the narrator's brain-dead, but she does technically survive the movie.
In Reversal of Fortune, the narrator's brain-dead, but she does technically survive the movie.
Oh gawd. Now I'm imagining movie narration along the lines of Terri Schiavo's Blog....
Terry Schiavo wrote The Path to 9/11!
Hee!
She's also the ghostwriter for Ann Coulter, I bet....
Jack is narrating in Fight Club and he survives.
And there's also the original release of Blade Runner.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and FULL METAL JACKET both have surviving narrators (Kubrick had other narrated films, but they were 3rd-person omniscient ones).
As does APOCALYPSE NOW.
Oh, TAXI DRIVER, GOODFELLAS and MEAN STREETS too (although that last one only has it near the beginning).
And Black-Irish O'Hara, from The Lady from Shanghai. Film noir is full of narrators (since a lot of the novels were in the first-person), and one film noir is even shot as if the camera were the eyes of the main character (memfaulting on the title, based on a Westlake novel IIRC). That was one of those honorable-failure movies, that they had to do to prove that, although it could be done, it couldn't be done in a way that didn't look silly.
I'm not sure if it's what you're thinking of, since it's certainly not Westlake, but The Lady in the Lake is shot from Marlowe's POV.