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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9202731"><p>This is a big issue with a lot of older movies (I don't think Payne has this particular issue as he does seem knowledgable about films when I have seen him comment on media). But with Scorsese he has been imitated so much people don't always understand the innovation. I was talking about the Michael Winner movie with someone on a podcast the other day. The character Bronson plays is an assassin who meticulously plans his murders, listening to classical music while doing so. One of my first thoughts was the old "oh the hitman with a classical soundtrack" but then it occurred to me, I couldn't think of a movie prior to this where that had appeared (not saying the Mechanic was the first to do it, just that I recognized an old trope, almost lightly critiqued the film for using it, but I had to check myself because for all I knew, it was the film that started it (and not saying it was, it just turned out in the podcast that me and the other people couldn't think of a film that did it before, unless you include something like A Clockwork Orange---which we agreed is doing something slightly different). And to be doubly clear, nothing wrong with a movie having a hitman who listens to classical music while planning (it was just more of a mental note than an actual critique).</p></blockquote><p></p>