ok…the tommy gun scene-what can i say? INCREDIBLE! Albert Finney played a perfect Leo, even though he was only cast two days before they started shooting, and after seeing this amazing scene, i just had to see what he had to say about this film. one great quote i found was, “It seemed like a comic strip, in a sense, when I first read it,” he recalls. “The casualness of the violence amused me a great deal. But it’s extremely rich stuff. There’s an awful lot of craftsmanship in there, and thinking through and chipping away at a piece of marble for some time to get this essence.” Also, of the Coen brothers, which I found as completely adding to their genius, “Filmmaking can become an ordeal…What’s great about these guys [the Coen brothers] is that they’ll throw new things in on the fourth or sixth take. Then while they’re editing they will play with form the same way that they played with words in preparing the script.” I’m very interested in how films are actually made, and how such an unbelievable amount of work and precision is necessary, so this quote simply amazed me.