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Dead Men Don T Wear Plaid Film Analysis
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid shot and directed by Carl Reiner was very well shot and edited. There was a lot of shots that stood out, like the montage sequence of Juliet sucking the bullet out of Rigby's arm. Then there was a lot of other neat spliced shots from other movies, the best one was when Rigby was trying to give that one girl's father a dog. The scene just flowed smoothly. But one thing I do think they could have tried to do a bit better is to take the static lines out of the shots from the old movie. Besides that the movie was very well shot and edited. The movie could not have better written I really do not see it being any other way, because the movie was so cleverly shot and spliced together. But I also

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