Felix Ralph

Ugh I hope I don’t get a post surgery infection. Big pain day today 🫣

Thief (1981) Dir. Michael Mann James Caan on cracking the safe in Thief's opening scene, after being trained by professional thieves. "They had a big Richmond lock and safe there, you know? And the guys were there, and they gave me a magnetic drill which weighed close to 200 pounds. And they go, "Jimmy, break it..." "What?" "Go ahead, go into the safe" "You got to be kidding me?" Now, the way they used to make them, they'd take four inches of cold-rolled steel, and then they'd put copper behind it. And then behind that would be cement for fire. When you put the drill in, you always had to feel this pressure, right? So you could feel it was cold-rolled steel.... Now, the purpose of the copper was to bind the drill exactly for that reason, because once you came through there and you hit that copper - it would just wrap all around your drill, and it was over. So you had to be exact - and when you hit the copper, you got to come off the pressure, you know? And I busted into this thing, and I opened it up. And then when I looked - and I was not prepared - there were these two doors inside with these little round locks. I go..."Oh".....But they're filming... So, I just looked up, and I grabbed this hammer and took this little chisel and boom! I knock both locks out...I felt like I just graduated Harvard or something. You know, it was great - that was one of my proudest moments. I called my mother, and she said, "that's my boy". ...I got pretty good at opening safes. It's a wonderful thing to be good at - because my sister - she had one of these floor safes in this house that I bought. And she couldn't open it, you know? - I went to work, and I got the thing open. It was great. So I learned some good stuff in case things go bad."