Dick Tracy

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Watched With: Jordan, Amberly

15 years before Sin City dazzled audiences with it's highly stylised graphic world, there was Dick Tracy. This one seems to have been forgotten by most but I feel like, in todays comic book saturated media environment it'd probably play like gangbusters.

It rightfully won oscars for art direction and make-up. It's odd to recognise the actors under these comic style caricatures. The look of this world is wonderful. And the Matte paintings! Oh boy they are awesome.

The other oscar it won was for one of Stephen Sondheim's songs he wrote for the film. They are all great and very recognisable as his work. Madonna manages to butcher them but thankfully Sondheim regular Mandy Patinkin in on hand to rectify this as much as he is able. Danny Elfman produces a very Batman-esque score but really, Sondheim's songs carry a lot of the film.

The film has one hell of a cast and they all look like they are having a great time playing everything so big.

Wonderful to watch this favourite from my childhood again. It holds up wonderfully.