Did ya notice...(little fun things)..

Thanks--great observations.

Among the most subtle touches are the background reactions of Mardukas and Gail when Jack Walsh is hugging the daughter he hasn’t seen in 9 years. The scene is a masterful coordination of great acting. This is an action movie, of course, so such a tender scene in the midst of it is amazing.

Another bit that grabs me is when Jimmy Serrano, at the airport, has his little moment of cruelty with Walsh and asks him if it doesn’t bother him that “another copper is f**ing your wife.” It is a credit to the film’s sense of reality that they don’t have Walsh make some snappy comeback. He hangs in pained silence—it is clear that the remark has really cut him, and there is nothing he can really say back to it.

better still, is after Eddie has spoken to Jack ("they can't run & tap tat fast"), Eddie storms back into his office, but catches his shirt sleeve on the doorhandle. Not missing a beat Joe P. carries on with his lines. It makes for a very realistic scene.

The Gunslinger smiled. "On the way to the Dark Tower," he said, "anything is possible."

As "for the little fun things" ....
I loved the way Grodin (The Duke) looked at the bar owner as the latter was explaining why his bar was called "Red's Corner Bar"....
Grodin says: "What, you mean you've dyed your hair?" His facial expression during this exchange is quite brilliant given that he has just scammed him out of a wad of $20 bills....excellent!
An all round good-feel movie I'd say.

Neither myself nor my partner can say configuration now seriously and always sasy configururation as in the Litmus Configuration when De Niro can't pronounce it properly in the con.

My favourite movie too by the way.

The goons are great too - when one's on the phone and the other is practising his jabs and he kicks out at him and later when one asks if 'he (Cyrano) isn't mad at me is he?'

Walsh leaves his daughter on the drive and won't take her money and then lifts the Dukes coat flap into the car - the first sign things are changing and then the girl is left standing by herself and that music - chokes me up every time.

Just a truly great performance by everyone all round.

This might not be the right thread to put this, but something always bothered me about Marvin's phone call with the credit card company.
He pretends to be Jack, or John Wesley Walsh, and then asks if they can tell him the last place he used his card.
Here is the part that seems odd: after he gives them the card number, it's not even 2 seconds before MARVIN says into the phone "The Amtrak office at Grand Central Station? Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember now."
See how odd this is? There simply isn't enough time for whoever he is talking to to give him that info before HE gives US (the audience) the same thing. This just seems a very odd fluke in the script that was never fixed (or noticed).
It seems to me the script writer(s) should have made this scene more believable by letting us hear who he was talking to so that HE wouldn't have to tell US, the audience, where the credit card was last used.
It just seems a very odd way of conveying a phone convo to the audience.

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Cool I will have to check these things, it is one of my fav films of all times! And rates really high in my top 10 films of all time! I have seen it many a times, and never will get sick of it.