Once they did, you then knew this was something different. It was just going to look like a high-school movie until somebody opened their mouth. We weren’t going to be able to go to town with production design.
The dialogue is old-school detective, making the mix of both a unique experiment worth your time if you’re a fan of the noir genre.Ībout the film's unique dialogue, Johnson told Vulture: “We weren’t going to be able to create expressive sets. The film uses the different high-school social cliques as if they were criminal organizations, and the vice-president at the school works as the cop who knows the detective and doesn’t like his methods. It tells the story of Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a high-school kid in Southern California, trying to find out how his ex-girlfriend died.
Brick was Poker Face creator Rian Johnson’s first film, so it has some of the same sensibilities and updates an old genre for newer audiences as the show.
