https://vo.rs/tags/john-huston/Latest from the John Huston desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-asphalt-jungle-the-heist-films-moral-template/<p>Before the caper film could exist, someone had to decide the criminals were the protagonists. That sounds obvious now, after seventy years of crews assembling around a diagram of a vault, but in 1950 it was close to heresy for a major studio to build a film in which the police are an inconvenience and the audience&rsquo;s whole loyalty rides with the men cracking the safe. John Huston did it at MGM, of all places, and <em>The Asphalt Jungle</em> became the grammar book every heist film has been conjugating ever since. Watch it today and you can tick off the parts as they arrive, each one a fixture you have seen a hundred times, because this is where the fixtures were cast.</p>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000