Fourth-Date Marriage: Clementine and John have only known each other a couple of months before they get married.interesting territory by the promises of success, and Clementine is even a mild take on a Femme Fatale. Film Noir: The laconic Anti-Hero with a Dark and Troubled Past that threatens to catch up to him, a regular guy drawn into morally.Anderson's other movies, but it's still pretty impressive, following Sydney as he walks across a crowded casino floor. Epic Tracking Shot: The one in this movie isn't as long as the ones in P.T.Deadpan Snarker: Sydney's endlessly one for a witty turn of phrase.He is even referred to as such by Jimmy in his "Reason Why You Suck" Speech, though in a mocking way. This also, in a way, could be seen as an inter-film example of Ascended Extra. Director Anderson was fascinated by the character and his desire to know more about who he was led him to write the role. Casting Gag: Philip Baker Hall's character Sydney is intended to be an expansion of his mob-affiliated character also named Sidney in the film Midnight Run.Anderson's father, Ernie Anderson, who died one year after this movie was released, has a brief cameo as the man standing in front of John when the matches in John's pocket catch fire. ![]() Floyd Gondolli, Jimmy Gator, Mumbles O'Malley." Floyd Gondolli and Jimmy Gator are the names of the characters Phillip Baker Hall played in Anderson's next two movies, Boogie Nights and Magnolia. In any case, Jimmy, in his confrontation with Sydney, says "Shit, man. Call-Forward: Or maybe a Mythology Gag in reverse.Book Ends: The movie opens and closes with scenes at the same diner-the sequence beginning with a nearly identical shot of Sydney walking towards the entrance.No, the real reason Jimmy wants to blackmail Sydney is because Jimmy knows Sydney killed John's father, and John doesn't know. Blackmail: Played with Sydney thinks at first Jimmy is trying to do this to him because he helped Clementine and John with their Hostage Situation, but Jimmy doesn't care about that and is actually glad Sydney stepped in to help.He killed John's father, and is trying to make it up to him by being a Parental Substitute. Sydney accepts this, but he gently chides John when he tries to use it on him. ![]() Affectionate Nickname: Clementine calls Sydney "captain", because, as she explains, he looks like a captain on a ship.Philip Seymour Hoffman, who would become Anderson's most frequent collaborator before his death, appears in one scene as an obnoxious gambler. To make matters, worse, John's friend Jimmy (Jackson) knows about Sydney's past, and knows just why Sydney has taken John under his wing. However, they get into a bad situation that Sydney has to help them out of. John ends up falling in love with, and marrying, Clementine (Paltrow), a cocktail waitress/prostitute. ![]() Two years later, Sydney has become a Parental Substitute for John, and the two are inseparable. Sydney offers to help John find a way to make some money John at first resists, thinking Sydney is a Dirty Old Man, but eventually agrees to be helped. Sydney (Hall) is a Professional Gambler who finds John (Reilly) outside a diner one day, broke and alone. Hard Eight is a 1996 crime thriller written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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