ahhh the good old days when video cameras weren't everywhere.

Pierce is definetly cool in this movie

I love how the first and last shot of him entering and exiting are the longest and most uncut, making first time viewers almost believe that the whole scene was captured in one shot (if they are shocked enough by the twist seeing all that he's doing, as they should be). Pretty great stuff and surprised me upon reviewing. Very smart of the director.

I love this movie! Really fun and Pierce is great! When the music starts , i soo get into this ! its fun!! They did the music great for this movie.

Love this movie, but he's also one of my fav Bond, James Bond!!

Fabulous,,the movie is on my list of my favourites movies,i say it by Pierce Brosnan.He is my platonic love.I saw a part of the movie and was amazing.He is my favourite thief.

Advanced technology that allows the painting to be folded in half inside a briefcase! Nice

iMDb said about the breaking of the painting was in the original script. "The film originally showed Crown breaking the backing of the Claude Monet painting in order to fit it into his briefcase. John McTiernan later decided that audiences might be put off if they saw him in some way damage the painting, so he edited the scene so that it only showed Crown putting the folded painting into his briefcase, and figured most people wouldn't catch on" I catched on and so did you.

I love both versions of this film ……❤

for all the people wondering how he put the panting in the briefcase, the original shot showed us how he got it in the briefcase but according to the director in the movie commentary on the DVD is that people were so offended by it that he had to cut it out of the final cut thats why we are left asking questions on how he was able to do it, only showing him put it in the briefcase and then just instantly closing it.

LOL Love it when the old museum docents go on the attack against the robbers

Fantastic soundtrack.

@MrJackejr Sinner Man, they play the entire song during the scene in which he returns the painting.. and its one of the best scenes in modern cinema.

wow, the alarm sound at 1:35 is exactly the same as the evacuation alarm when you blow a mine reactor in the game Descent

@iDraw3G No, the painting is painted on canvas which is stretched across a wooden frame. The wooden frame may have been broken, but the painting itself which is on canvas is fine. The wooden frame can easily be remade, the painting not so much..

That's how bond entertain himself when he had no mission to do

ah the age before security cameras everywhere.

@aeaeue The song is Sinnerman by Nina Simone.

He's not supposed to, but we all know that don't breaking the painting in order to put it into the briefcase is impossible.

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I almost felt bad for those poor saps who were set-up to fail. lol

@iDraw3G in the director commentary, he said they had an elaborate way of cutting out the frame to take the canvas only but it didn't go well with the test audience so they nixed it

That's Sinnerman by Nina Simone, it's also playing during the bolar hat scenes later in the movie ("Returning the painting") Hope this helps :)

This movie was what made Pierce Brosnan 007 movie.

@iDraw3G he just bent the painting see paintings are made on a special kind of cardboard thingy which lasts thru the ages

stealing is state of art. luxury.

Wow James Bond 007 really needed money after MI16 needed a new James Bond haha

because its such a amazing piece of art, people found it disrespectful.

He just crushed a priceless oil painting in half, and yes, just below this post is another by BeeABaw, but he doesn't explain it either...

@pretendosse that's because it doesn't make sense. the painting is the size of the briefcase opened out. and it IS in a wooden frame. I think they just hope you won't notice. (or think you've made a mistake)

no matter what movie this man stars in he will always be Bond ... James Bond for me !

@MrJackejr Me too. I've been wondering and I can't find it on the soundtrack or anything. PLEASE HELP!!!

the way it was bended would not have really damaged the canvas, only broken/split the wooden frame right?

comment on marko and Vhellfire- he took the painting out of the briefcase, frame intact. i never understood that part. the painting would have been ruined with or without, they'rd be bits of chipped wood everywhere inside and probably through the canvis. still drives crazy today.

John McTiernan’s style was awesome. Too bad he got into the legal trouble that he did, because he made some amazing films.

Maybe Pierce should do another Remington Stelle film?

What's the operatic song that plays during this scene when the robbers first enter the museum? Can't find it anywhere?

How does the painting fold in the briefcase?

omg 2:19 is my iPhone alarm :D

@iDraw3G He didn't brake it, he bent it.

Everyone talks about the painting in the suitcase but I haven't seen any question on why the hell is an art museum staff member carrying around what looks to be a cattle prod? What is this a mob run one like in Casino XD

Which would be more alarming the guy running or the shadow of the helicopter blades?

The song is the midportion of Nina Simone's "Sinnerman" - search for it here on KZfaq.

Ya canvas can't break, which means he only broke the frame, which doesn't ruin the painting.

This part is nagging me too. Is stealing it so important that you risk damaging it?

I don't understand... how he is able to fold the painting like that?

Is it just me, or did the first scene featuring the Russian thieves have some resemblance to the beginning of the CoD: MW2 mission No Russian? In this movie, the leader says "Let's stick to English from here, okay?" and in MW2 Makarov says: "Remember, no Russian".

uhhh, the painting is on canvas. how can you break canvas? i think you mean the wooden frame right?

The part I didn't get and it still bothers me today: When he took the painting out of the frame and put it in the briefcase, he had to fold the briefcase...he would of broken the canvas when he closed it. (1:58 to 2:00). Drives me nuts still to this day. Then he goes home to hang it in his office den...and the wooden canvas is solid (Same canvas. He took the painting out of the same briefcase when he got home. The painting, undamaged.)

would like to know as well

It was on a canvass.

QUESTION? Does anyone know the song playing in the museum? You hear it loud when the bald robber enters and pushes the oriental student out of his way. There's a woman singing almost new age opera. No, I'm not talking about sinnerman either. If anyone knows the song please let me know, been looking for years. Thanks!

I recall him breaking the painting, is this a new version?

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anyone know the soundtrack that starts at 1:47??

I guess acquisitions and mergers got a little stodgy. 😄

@iDraw3G you're not really breaking a canvas painting. any minor damage might be worth it to steal it.

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place your orders for honeycombe titaniam briefcases with batman er wayne enterprises ha ha

Do you know what you’re names means in Hebrew???Thomas ❤

What do you mean by offended? They didn't like how he put the painting in the briefcase?

@aeaeue Sinnerman - Nina Simone

ODDLY WHEN STEALING THIS MONET THE PAINTING FIT PERFECTLY IN THE BRIEFCASE BUT HAD TO BE FOLDED TO THE CASE TO CLOSE. THIS MEANS THE PAINTING G AND FRAME IT WAS ON ALS HAD TO BE FOLDED. THIS MAKES NO SENSE!!

Sinnerman by Nina Simone

A lot of plot holes in the film.

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This is not like the original Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway