carlito's coat
wouldn't it get a little hot always wearing that thing around? esp. in the club?
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They usually have the AC blasting in clubs, so I'd say no.
shareAesthetics trump practicality. Especially in a De Palma movie.
I loved the coat. Particularly when Carlito's being pursued in the train station and the tail of it billows, giving Carlito a barrio caped crusader vibe.
- Do you want to know the nature of evil?
- No man, cause if I did then I'd be out of a job.
very true. it looks like at any moment he might start to fly!
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Up, up and outta this mutha fvcka!
- Do you want to know the nature of evil?
- No man, cause if I did then I'd be out of a job.
I guess it's supposed to be around 1976 and by then people were not wearing long leather coats. At least not Puerto Ricans.They were wearing more leather jackets like they did in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.
shareMy dad had the exact same coat around the late 70s early 80s, and would have been around the same age as Carlito, in his late 30s early 40s, so makes sense. I think the leather jackets from Saturday Night fever were for the younger bario boys, obviously me and my father are puerto rican, from Chicagoland area.
shareFrom 1970 to 1979 I never seen no spanish person wearing a leather coat like that. Now different material yes but not leather .
shareThe coat was bad ass...
And a really cool Professor at John Jay College (cop and fireman school in NYC) verfified that the "coat" was style... it meant Carlito was a bad ass.
Looking at the movie, and aside from his sentimentality, he WAS a badass!
Also, he just got out after being in jail for five years. In the books, it is mentioned how the "scene" has changed in those five years. Al Pacino even narrates some of it when he goes to see Ron.... and save his fat ass!
"What a man gotta come to when he loses five years..."
"...what happened to all that Marijuana...?"
"Now everything is cocaine, platforms, and dances I don't dance...."
Times had changed in five years for him. It ties into the plot.
And it's absolutely within reason that someone like Carlito would be wearing a style that was somewhat outdated.
You'll notice, NO ONE ELSE has a long coat like his.... it's not a mistake, but a character attribute that furthers the story....
And frankly, this is probably DiPalma's least "stolen" (from Hitchcock) film... his best work, if you ask me.
Yea it was awesome and it went with the smooth directing and flow he was trying to make.
The good clubs have it blasting and you know Carlito's going own one of the best.
Plus its New York so you know its bound to get chilly.
A long coat makes you look taller.
shareCarlito stayed hot baby.
sharereminded me of the trenchcoat mafia nerd killers from the 90s high schools
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