The story of No Sudden Move takes major inspiration from the historically shady activity that took place over this device and incorporates it into a narrative that borrows from a classic theme of film noir: forbidden love.Īt Most, No Sudden Move Is A Story About Crimes Of Passion However, before then, an anti-trust case was made in 1969 against major car companies like GM and Ford by the Department of Justice for colluding to keep the development of this pollution-reducing technology secret for personal gain. In fact, as an afterword sprawled across the final shot of the film reveals, this device would be revolutionary to the automotive industry and to environmental safety, which is why the United States Environmental Protection Agency made it a requirement on all American motor vehicles in 1975. And I bet you might have thought the setting was only chosen to invoke that classic crime fiction feeling. This may seem like a pretty mundane choice for such a problematic MacGuffin, but not so much in the Motor City during the 1950s. The document that creates all this commotion is actually the design for a catalytic converter, which is a device that reduces the emission of toxic pollutants from a car’s exhaust system. While No Sudden Move, written by co-creator of the Bill and Ted movies Ed Solomon, is a good, old-fashioned work of crime fiction, it is based in truth in ways you might not have ever expected. The MacGuffin Of No Sudden Move Has Some Historical Significance
Probably the one other character granted a “happy” ending is Goynes, who is mercifully spared by Watkins and able to walk away with the $5,000 promised to him at the very beginning. Meanwhile, Wertz reunites with his family who had been staying at a neighbors’ house since the incident, but is destined to continue being haunted by the consequences of his actions (another detail I will elaborate on soon). That is because the cop was sent by Officer Joe Finney ( Jon Hamm, no stranger to period pieces since leading the Mad Men cast) - the gumshoe investigating the Wertz Family’s hostage situation who is actually crooked and reports to Mike Lowen, to whom Finney promptly delivers the loot. Russo takes the money and runs to share with his lover, Vanessa (Julia Fox from the Uncut Gems cast), who - in, arguably, the film’s most dazzling twist - shoots him dead so she can have the money all to herself, until it is abruptly swiped from her when she is pulled over by a cop who somehow knows her by name.
He buys it from Goynes and Russo at the Gotham Hotel for $375,000 at the same time Naismith flees the scene after, essentially, being robbed by Aldrick Watkins, whom Russo soon learns Goynes colluding with, only to be turned on the crime boss himself. This guy is a heavy hitter in his chosen field (another detail I will touch on later) who understands the value of this document wishes to keep it a secret. However, they first decide to get the sticky on Mel Forbert’s involvement and learn he wanted to sell the document to Mike Lowen - played by the DeNiro to Steven Soderbergh’s Scorsese, Matt Damon in a pleasantly surprising, uncredited cameo. After Jones dies in the commotion, Capelli finally reveals he was hired to nab the document by a man named Hugh Naismith (Kevin Scollin), who agrees to meet Goynes and Russo at the Gotham Hotel to buy it for $125,000.
Goynes and Russo have Frank Capelli meet them at a restaurant to make a deal for the document, which spirals out of control once Jones comes to the table with an itchy trigger finger. First, to make sure this playing field is level, the duo grabs Matt Wertz and take him to Mel Forbert’s house to find the real document - the true value of which I will get into soon, but let’s keep this train rolling for now.
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