Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.
- Lina Pasquini
- (as Flavia Fabiani)
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- TriviaA sequel was originally planned, but ended up being scraped due to Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock not getting along.
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Fred: ...And who gets it?
Norma: Well, why not ask the Captain?
Fred: No, I mean who gets to go to bed with you? Do I?
Tony: Or, Do I?
Norma: You both may!
Fred: What a sport you are! One of us gets it first by my rules. I'm against threesomes!
Norma: Oh, but after I screw you, I can screw him. Bring a couple of friends if you want to. You take a woman to bed, and what do you give to her? When you reach your extent of possibility, I mean after only one, or two or three orgasms - we women have more in us than you think - I'm prepared to go all night.
[Fred and Tony mutter incoherently and make for the door]
Norma: My dear cocksmen, we girls have to work hard for the inadequate performance we get. We play to your masculine conceit, and make you feel like supermen.
[Tony lights Norma a cigarette]
Norma: Then you invite us to meals with a hundred courses, and you're through after the appetizer.
Fred: Well, listen to Mae West!
Norma: Only if we love someone do we ever get cheated. Then we don't mind how much he fails in bed. I just don't happen to love you.
Fred: Okay, okay - so we go to bed together. Who gets it first?
Norma: As you say, you go together!
Fred: No way!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Italian Gangsters (2015)
Another tip-off that this is going to be wild is the fact it's directed by Ruggero Deodato, who's best known for making Cannibal Holocaust, which is one of the most controversial and violent movies of the 1980s (or arguably of all time). This one is similarly twisted and violent, though definitely not as extreme or horrific... even if it cruelly kills a blind man's guide dog on-screen five minutes into the movie (unlike the animal violence in Cannibal Holocaust, I'm pretty sure it's fake here). I guess it's done to show that the movie's not going to mess around. Unsurprisingly, it proceeds as such.
The film has a loose plot which pretty much boils down to two rogue cops taking on violent criminals in ways that are just as violent as the criminals. It's absurd enough that maybe it's intended to be darkly funny or even satirical, but I couldn't be 100% sure. Maybe the film was trying to be cool, but I'd like to think Deodato knew what he was doing here, to some extent (because I do think Cannibal Holocaust has a great deal more satire than some give it credit for).
I don't know, if you find the title funny and like crazy, over-the-top cop movies, this'll probably scratch an itch. But I don't know many people who I'd personally recommend it to, in all honesty, even if I got some enjoyment out of it.
- Jeremy_Urquhart
- Oct 2, 2022
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