Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.
- Lina Pasquini
- (as Flavia Fabiani)
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- TriviaA sequel was originally planned, but ended up being scraped due to Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock not getting along.
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Fred: ...And who gets it?
Norma: Well, why not ask the Captain?
Fred: No, I mean who gets to go to bed with you? Do I?
Tony: Or, Do I?
Norma: You both may!
Fred: What a sport you are! One of us gets it first by my rules. I'm against threesomes!
Norma: Oh, but after I screw you, I can screw him. Bring a couple of friends if you want to. You take a woman to bed, and what do you give to her? When you reach your extent of possibility, I mean after only one, or two or three orgasms - we women have more in us than you think - I'm prepared to go all night.
[Fred and Tony mutter incoherently and make for the door]
Norma: My dear cocksmen, we girls have to work hard for the inadequate performance we get. We play to your masculine conceit, and make you feel like supermen.
[Tony lights Norma a cigarette]
Norma: Then you invite us to meals with a hundred courses, and you're through after the appetizer.
Fred: Well, listen to Mae West!
Norma: Only if we love someone do we ever get cheated. Then we don't mind how much he fails in bed. I just don't happen to love you.
Fred: Okay, okay - so we go to bed together. Who gets it first?
Norma: As you say, you go together!
Fred: No way!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Italian Gangsters (2015)
Aside from Deodato at the helm, this one benefits enormously from having Fernando di Leo as its screenwriter. I think it would be fair to say that di Leo is the king of this particular sub-genre and has several outright classics under his belt as director. His input, therefore, is always going to be a significant bonus. It would probably be fair to say that the screenplay to this one is less thoughtful than the ones he used for his own films but it still nevertheless gets us from A to B in a highly entertaining fashion. This is one of many Italian cop films which followed the basic template laid down by the international hit Dirty Harry (1971), in that it features the use of brutal police tactics used to sort various low-life criminals out. Other Italian films used this idea, such as Umberto Lenzi's Violent Naples (1976) but where that film had one violent cop, this one has two! They go through the picture killing and torturing criminals, endangering the general public and indulging in sexist behaviour at every given opportunity. These guys work for the special squad section of the Rome police department and the film is basically made up of a number of different encounters they have with various criminals.
Events kick off with no messing about with a great extended motorcycle chase through the scenic streets of Rome, later the boys use their special brand of force against violent criminals holding an unfortunate woman hostage in her home, they also take out a group of thieves before they can even attempt to commit the crime in question and later dispatch a variety of gangsters in a quarry shootout. In other words, this is good violent fun, poliziotteschi style. The manner that these cops deliver their unorthodox brand of violent justice is so casually delivered and at no point in proceedings does anyone truly question their methods, aside from the occasional light ticking off from their superior. But let's be honest, it's this complete lack of any political correctness whatsoever that is a significant part of what makes Italian cop thrillers such fun nowadays – they don't make them like this anymore that's for sure! If you could imagine a parallel universe where 'Starsky and Hutch' were nihilistic police officers who blow up cars on purpose, have threesome sex with suspects and break the necks of criminals for the hell of it, then it would be something not far off Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man. You've just got to love the Italians.
- Red-Barracuda
- Sep 4, 2016
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