Charaters in Motion

I've discovered a new tool on this blog: Lists, but it doesn't let you say why you included something in particular. So I guess I'll just have to write a post about it. If you have not seen, To Live and Die in LA, you really need to take an opportunity to watch it. It's a great movie on several levels, but a dark one. As a writer, I enjoyed seeing how the characters changed through the course of the movie. I don't want to write a spoiler so you'll just have to check it out yourself. It had some actors that I have come to appreciate over the years. William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, and John Pankow, starred in it, kinda before they were stars as I recall. This movie is about 20 years old but still has a modern day feel minus the overuse of cell phones these days. I just checked, and it came out in 1985, God it seems like yesterday. Like I said, don't let this deter you from watching this crime drama involving a counterfeiter. Be warned, it's a dark movie, showing what can happen to the human spirit, which is why I liked it so much. In addition, it has a great soundtrack featuring Wang Chung. A song of the same name has a pulsing, driving beat that is slowed down and then sped up to match the action of the film. In my humble opinion, this song and its use made the movie. It would have been a good movie anyway, but the song just helped define it. Why am I bringing up this 23-year-old movie? Well, thanks to my wonderful DirecTV (again this is not an ad), I caught the last hour of it on the T101 channel last night, when absolutely nothing was on. It's the same channel that I saw Simply Red on and posted about recently. Now when I figure out this embedding thing, I'll post a video clip of Wang Chung's song for you to hear. For now, you'll just have to follow my link. I tried to find a link to the movie itself but couldn't find one. Don't check out Wikipedia, because even though its good, it contains early spoilers. The movie is one thrill ride after another. Watch it first, if you like crime dramas, and then go read about it.