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That he has no reason to remake the film--apart from a very French fixation on hommage , a need to work, and a fancy for beautiful Asian girls in black latex--becomes apparent to him a bit later than it does to his savvy cast and crew.
The work is, of course, an hommage to the police-procedural genre for which Americans are principally known overseas.
Flick's name is clearly an hommage to Sammy Glick, the Hollywood hustler of Budd Schulberg's classic portrait of '30s ambition, What Makes Sammy Run ? Glick was viewed through the eyes of Al Manheim, a jaded lefty alcoholic who regarded this new species of capitalist human with contempt but also with awe: Sammy was a force of nature.
The same goes for the ghetto-bred college football star named Fareek Fanon (in unsubtle hommage to Frantz Fanon, the French intellectual who championed anti-colonial violence in the 1950s).
Could this, we wondered, possibly be an hommage to the strangely similar technique invented by William Saletan for Slate 's "The Week/The Spin"?
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