Watch: Bringing Out the Dead 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – An Easter story. Frank is a Manhattan medic, working graveyard in a two-man ambulance team. He’s burned out, exhausted, seeing ghosts, especially a young woman he failed to save six months’ before, and no longer able to save people: he brings in the dead. We follow him for three nights, each with a different partner: Larry, who thinks about dinner, Marcus, who looks to Jesus, and Tom, who wallops people when work is slow. Frank befriends the daughter of a heart victim he brings in; she’s Mary, an ex-junkie, angry at her father but now hoping he’ll live. Frank tries to get fired, tries to quit, and keeps coming back, to work and to Mary, in need of his own rebirth..
Plot: Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn’t help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
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Not essential Scorsese but interesting viewing
When we talk about Martin Scorsese films, one of the few films that rarely gains a mention is the master’s 1999 dramatic thriller Bringing Out the Dead, a rapidly paced filmed that saw Scorsese re-team with his Raging Bull and Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader to mixed but at times brilliant results.Adapting Joe Connolley’s novel that examines the fractured mental state of New York City paramedic Frank Pierce (played by a wide eyed Nicolas Cage) who is haunted by the ghosts of those he couldn’t save in his job whilst dealing with the Big Apple’s crazy nightlife and collection of sick and sorry people that litter its streets, it’s a unique journey that is still to this day it’s own beast.
Backed by a rock heavy soundtrack, dizzying editing by Scorsese muse Thelma Schoonmaker and some standout cinematography by the great Robert Richardson (New York appearing like some type of hellish version of its real life self), Dead is a well-made film and one that will daze its audience with its quick-fire jumping from scene to scene as we follow Pierce across a couple of incident filled nights in this hyper-real city of drug addicts, homeless lost souls and those just trying to push forward.
In the peak of his 90’s powers, before he become more well-known as an internet meme and a man whose off-screen antics are worthy of their own novels, Dead also features one of Nicolas Cage’s most perfectly suited lead roles.
Initially seeming to be on top of his problems despite his clear issues, as Pierce descends deeper and deeper into a rabbit hole of trauma and horror’s bought on by his job, Cage perfectly encapsulates a man teetering on the edge and while the film has support for Cage with the likes of Patricia Arquette, John Goodman and Ving Rhames, Dead thrives off the energy of its leading man, even if his never someone we can warm to or relate to in any particular meaningful way.
In many ways Dead feels like the poorer cousin of Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Wolf of Wall Street, character studies that happen to take place in Scorsese’s favorite city, but unlike those films Dead isn’t able to give us a truly memorable lead character or create a narrative that ends up culminating in an unforgettable cinematic ride.
Final Say –
As you’d expect from a Martin Scorsese film, Bringing Out the Dead is a proficiently made feature with one of Nicolas Cage’s most perfectly suited roles but it lacks the heart and power of his best works and remains a lesser piece of his cinematic puzzle even if its far from the misfire some would have you had believe.
3 Frank Sinatra records out of 5
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 1 min (121 min)
Budget 32000000
Revenue 16800000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Martin Scorsese
Writer Joe Connelly, Paul Schrader
Actors Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision C-, E-Series and Super High Speed Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (dailies)
Film Length 3,291.84 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 200T 5274, Vision 500T 5279, Vision 800T 5289)
Cinematographic Process VistaVision (source format) (visual effects plates), Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman)