-opening shot: ice in glass, starts with just noise first (loud)
-similar lines, occasionally: “How far has she got her hooks into you?”
-conversations have same themes as Glass Key, different subjects
-beautiful shot sequence: dog –> boy –> dead man (reaction shot in reverse–drawn out eyeline match)
-“You and I have faced worse odds.” “Never without reason. It helps to have one.”
-powder room conflict between Tom and Verna–background music: “Runnin’ Wild” (This song also featured in Some Like It Hot)
“Running wild, lost control.
Running wild, mighty bold.
Feeling gay, reckless too,
carefree mind all the time, never blue.
Always going, don’t know where,
always showing..I don’t care!
Don’t love nobody, it’s not worthwhile.
All alone, running wild!”
-song creates a nice contrast with the tension between the two characters
-Caspar’s son seems almost like a caricature of himself, as do many of the characters
-“Would that be physically, or just a mental state?”
-“Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.”
-shot of feet going up stairs, tips of guns with silencers
-calm music throughout machine gun fire, Leo’s retaliation
-continuation of the use of cheerful music during violent scenes
-“It’s the kiss-off.” (same line)
-several second shot of Tom sitting in bed, shows his reaction to the noise of a person entering his house
-Miller’s Crossing: name of the place he was supposed to kill Bernie
-repeats the “nobody knows anybody” line
-film keeps showing the “Shenandoah Club” sign, perhaps paying homage to older movies of the same genre, which almost always showed the name of a building to establish setting between scenes
-backwards tracking shot of conversation between Tom and Leo (walking at Miller’s Crossing) (very simple shot construction, puts the emphasis on their dialogue
