Sidney Lumet - Serpico (1973)

Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system. Neophyte officer Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is determined not to let his job get in the way of his individuality. Despite his colleagues' leery reactions, he keeps one foot firmly planted in the counterculture, sporting a beard and love beads and living in bohemian Greenwich Village, while he performs his police duties with dispatch. Serpico's peers genuinely ostracize him, however, when he refuses to take bribes like everybody else. Appalled by the extent of police corruption, Serpico goes to his superiors, but when he discovers that they have ignored his charges, he takes the potentially fatal step of breaking the blue wall of silence and going public with his exposé. Serpico's revelations trigger an independent investigation by the Knapp Commission, but they also make him a marked man, permanently changing his life. Shot on location with a gritty emphasis on documentary-style realism, Serpico presents a city in decay both literally and morally, as everybody is in on the take, and the cops and criminals are almost interchangeable. Released in late 1973, after months of revelations of Presidential malfeasance in the breaking Watergate scandal, Serpico's true story of bureaucratic depravity touched a cultural nerve, and the film became a hit with both critics and audiences, particularly for Pacino's complex performance as the honest, long-haired whistleblower. One year after his star-making triumph in The Godfather, Pacino was nominated for an Oscar again, and lost again; Lumet and Pacino would reunite two years later for another true New York story, Dog Day Afternoon. General Complete name : Serpico.1973.BDrip.XviD.AC3.D-Z0N3.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format profile : OpenDML File size : 2.62 GiB Duration : 2h 10mn Overall bit rate : 2 882 Kbps Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2542/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2542/release Video #0 ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : AdvancedSimple@L5 Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Custom Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 2h 10mn Bit rate : 2 423 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 384 pixels Display aspect ratio : 1.875 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.366 Stream size : 2.20 GiB (84%) Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04) Audio #1 ID : 1 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Codec ID : 2000 Duration : 2h 10mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 448 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Stream size : 417 MiB (16%) Alignment : Split accross interleaves Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame) Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070666/ English audio; English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles

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