TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985) | Making Counterfeit Money (Willem Dafoe) | MGM
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- A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Screenplay By: William Friedkin and Gerald Petievich
Based on the Novel by: Gerald Petievich
Cast: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, and Dean Stockwell
Rated R
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
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I love when the music starts on the drop of paint
It's talking about a fake money
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This is how good Dafoe is. He makes a dude working on printing machines and cutting paper look like the most awesome (and maybe menacing) villain of all time.
"I like your work" ...
This is one of the greatest scenes in 1980’s crime noir movies and is iconic.
Car chase scene is unrivaled for any motion picture in my opinion.
According to Wikipedia:
The counterfeiting montage looks authentic because Friedkin consulted actual counterfeiters who had done time. The "consultant" actually did the scenes that do not show actor Willem Dafoe on camera to give this sequence more authenticity even though the actor learned how to print money. Over one million dollars of counterfeit money was produced but with three deliberate errors so that it could not be used outside the film. The filmmakers burned most of the fake money but some leaked out, was used, and linked back to the production. The son of one of the crew members tried to use some of the prop money to buy candy at a local store and was caught. Three FBI agents from Washington, D.C. interviewed 12-15 crew members including Friedkin, who screened the workprint for them. He offered to show the film to the Secretary of the Treasury and take out anything that was a danger to national security. That was the last he heard from the government.
Awesome info, thank you! ^
It also don’t hurt that the book’s author, Gerald Petievitch, is a former Secret Service agent.
Willem Dafoe and William Petersen at their best.
I worked in the printing industry. When he breathed on the plate I just had to smile.
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What's wrong with this scene..?
Something wrong....??
It's a movie, sure that scene when he breathed on the plate was made just for the audience , viewer of the film to see the Dollar bills as "negative" on the plate.
Inky fingers for life.
"You know, I'm something of a counterfeiter myself"
Watched this at the Alamo drafthouse in LA and absolutely loved it.
Just the mixing the ink, must take some real mad dog skill.
The sound guy deserves an Oscar, just the sound on this clip is remarkable 0:13 0:32. 0:42. 1:00 1:15. 1:33 1:43. 1:48
Absolutely 👍👍
So that’s how Norman Osborn became rich and started OsCorp…
Rick Masters...one of the top ten scariest villians of all time
Love Dafoe in this, one of my favorite roles of his. A bit unlike most of the things he's known for. Plays a relatively straightforward 80s' cop drama villain, but with a certain tint of sophistication. I love how Dafoe is allowed to go off of his natural charisma without the exaggeration that he's best known for.
Wow, he was so young.
I worked in a press and bindery shop for several years, and this scene brings back memories.
I feel like Friedkin often did cool "work montage" scenes like this with cool music. I'm thinking of the scene in Sorcerer working on the trucks. Anything else like that I'm missing?
F the counterfeiting, I love Dafoe's outfit hahahaha!!!!
He's something of a counterfeiter himself.
What a movie! Simply AWESOME!
This scene Is a piece of art 👍👍👍
They should offer courses at the local community college for this sort of thing.
They did lol. I knew someone who went to school for printwork in the 70s and they confirmed this scene is pretty accurate for the predigital tech
The Citizen Kane of counterfeiting scenes…
This is the movie that made me want to be a Criminal Mastermind 😅
I bought this film on vhs couldn't stop watching this film and soundtrack 👌 masterpiece
Director William Friedekin said this movie was about counterfeit lives and counterfeit relationships. It is a masterpiece of cinematic intensity, and yes, the protagonists' lives were phony and shallow. Dafoe and Peterson had such an excellent bad chemistry between them - they should do another movie together.
The best action thiller of thiller ,1980s
Dafoe and Peterson should be in another movie together.
Its baffle me why William Patersen dont reach superstardom , he is for me a defination of american heroes and should appear in more blockbuster movie, alas he didnt...
He was offered a ton of big roles, but apparently just didn't like movie acting all that much
But, he went on to play very successfully in the CBS drama CSI : Las Vegas
Best Car Chase in Cinema # William Friedkin directed The French Connection, and then follow-ed it up with The Exorcist.
Incredible.
1) French Connection
2)Bullett 1968
I used to work in that when I was young, offset machines, revealing plates, etc.
One of the ole timers that worked there spent some time in the can for making fake dollars
😂😂😂
What song do they play during this clip?
CITY OF ANGELS by Whang Chung from the soundtrack score.
Film Flub # 33
At the end of the dramatic car chase where they drive in the opposite direction, and cause a car pile up on the freeway, there's a shot of the aftermath showings a brown van with green and yellow horizontal stripes on it in thei middle of the pile up.
But, a few seconds later, when they are speeding away, the same van can be seen again blissfully driving by in the opposite direction 😊😊😊
Underrated film.
When I was a kid, I heard that they used recycled Levi's jeans as part of the 'paper' money is printed on, that's why you see (or... used to see) tiny blue and red threads in currency. No idea if it's true, but I enjoyed looking at the little threads anyway.
This movie probably did a lot for enrollment at arts colleges.
Re-watched this recently, while the rest of the film has aged a bit, this scene hasn't aged at all. Utterly brilliant, especially in the use of sound from him cutting the masks to where the music fades in, almost imperceptibly as he's touching them up with a paintbrush... The metallic sound, so much louder, as he flips the sheet over, the almost electric buzz, hints of the main theme, a breath, then
BAM
the drop of ink (or is it wax?) onto the sheet. And the music perfectly timed to the beat of the presses. A masterpiece of wordless video if ever there was one.
William Peterson 2nd best movie behind Manhunter
Insanely beautiful man
He looks great in this movie.
3:50 So that's why they call it money laundering?
El duende verde es este 🐶
I just heard this instrumental from a 1996 Bulls vs. Pistons game
The music sounds suspiciously like Stewart Copeland's theme from The Equalizer. Weird.
Stewart has cool music in the movie First Power.
WD the greatest villain in the history of world film in this movie not even close.
💚 genius❤
It’s all about the paper bills are made of cotton fabric and wood pulp
Exactly. That's really the "secret sauce" that ultimately shows up a counterfeit bill (speaking of the difference in paper the US Treasury uses, it's why the special counterfeit pens stores use change colors on fake bills but not real ones, etc.)
i think the feds were worried that his movie gave too much information on how to actually make counterfeit money
Director skipped or left out key steps and depicted them out of order...
This movie is at Amazon Brasil already?
I WANT MY 4K VERSION NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Always felt Masters and SSG Elias personalities were similar. Yes one was bad and one was for good.
Both were men were meticulous and detail oriented, driven by being an example of unique circumstance rivaling the norm.
Maybe it was Dafoe's personality injected into them.
Three hundred-fifty years ago counterfeiting was a hanging offense in England.
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Is this accurate conterfitting or is this movie magic? Good movie either way I was always curious that if somebody did this in reality and that was how they adapted it to the screen or someone just had the idea that's how it would be.
they were legally required to include 2 or 3 mistakes so it wouldn't be complely accurate.
It's this scene that made me realize i had a criminal mind... 🙃
Now that trick question Dafoe's character from the movie "Inside Man" has an 'inside' meaning...
Dafoe is an incredible talent. Check him in Mississippi Burning.
Adrenaline junkies at it's finest!
You get your money for nothing
And your chicks for free!
Hmmm.
THIS METHOD WOULDNT WORK TODAY WITH THE WATERMARKS THEY HAVE NOW
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Don't matter he did for the love of the game homie😅😂
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Housing is the the main issue. The COST of housing in NYC is the problem.