'The Message'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Also, The Good and The Ugly are clearly soulmates.
Smile when you say that, Blondie.
A couple of questions that strike me: have you seen Yojimbo & Sanjuro? Have you seen Once Upon A Time In The West? Are you interested in seeing more Westerns and need recommendations?
No, no, no, not exactly. That is, I thought these were good Westerns, but I have no burning desire to watch more unless I have to. There are many more non-Westerns I'm interested in.
Corwood is going to start pimping The Wild Bunch to you, P-C. I can feel it. Resist his blandishments!
Yojimbo & Sanjuro are samurai movies, but they are modelled on classic westerns.
Indeed, Yojimbo was inspired by a Dashiel Hammett novel, filmed as a samurai western and remade as...wait for it...A Fistful of Dollars.
Also, you should see The Wild Bunch.
Nyah, nyah's scrappy.
Indeed, Yojimbo was inspired by a Dashiel Hammett novel, filmed as a samurai western and remade as...wait for it...A Fistful of Dollars.
Yep, and Sanjuro was remade as For A Few Dollars More. And Kurosawa was deeply influenced by John Ford.
But I'm not going to push the Westerns or samurai movies unless there's interest. Frank's doing it for me!
Sanjuro was remade as For A Few Dollars More
Huh. I haven't seen Sanjuro yet (and it's been so long since I saw FaFDM that all I remember is how confusing it was to see Lee Van Cleef as essentially one of the "good" guys in that movie after having seen The Good, The Bad...etc.), so I didn't realize that FaFDM was a remake as well.
Also, if you've seen either Yojimbo or A Fistful of Dollars, catch Fresh which is the plot as interpreted in the African-American ghetto experience -- I HIGHLY recommend it.
Yojimbo kicks all kinds of ass. It's one of those rare movies that is simultaneously cerebral as hell and breathlessly action-packed. I think I first saw it in the late 90s, around 1997 or so, while I was going through a spaghetti western kick. And I've watched it pretty much once or twice a year ever since without any sort of diminishing marginal returns.
Also, if you've seen either Yojimbo or A Fistful of Dollars, catch Fresh which is the plot as interpreted in the African-American ghetto experience -- I HIGHLY recommend it.
I feel like I need to do a mini film-fest now and watch them all back to back.