12-15-2015, 05:14 PM
(12-15-2015, 03:56 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:[quote author=Manzanita John link=topic=14072.msg148469#msg148469 date=1450219705]
Mickey Rourke to William Hurt in Body Heat:Â
"any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you're gonna **** up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius... and you ain't no genius."
same point in Dial M for Murder...I wonder how deep that trope goes?
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I would guess at least as far back as film noir...or maybe somewhere in Crime and Punishment?