The zealots in the red caps represent…
And the benevolent egomaniacal leader foaming at the mouth represents…
The odd slack-jawed moviegoer who saw this by mistake and who can’t take a joke and who are offended represent…
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Close-Up 1990
These recent months, Japanese film, Taiwanese film, Soviet Russia film, French film, Swedish film, a bit of Hollywood, and now, a first, Iranian film.
You know how many different ways there are to make the same film? Me neither. Can’t count that high. The opening cab ride and conversation here could have been made any number of ways. But this way seems rare and extraordinary. A heightened tension, but one that defies my conditioned expectations.
(If there’s one constant…
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966
Tuco: I’m still alive, and I always will be!
Tuco hollering atop the makeshift cross.
At the time of the American Civil War, three impartial warriors fight for what lies in a grave at Sad Hill.
Tuco’s gleeful trot over the freshly dug mounds.
Tuco’s haphazard sign of the cross.
Wealth, or death. What else can there be?
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