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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
I chose this one because I'm trying to get into Westerns, and I spent four formative years looking at its poster on Buster's dorm room wall. That drawing of Humphrey Bogart ("Bogey") will always be seared in my mind.
But like, what was the Western? And what is all this about a "revisionist Western?" I feel like the only Western worth watching would be revisionist. Can you imagine a more boring movie than a non-revisionist Western? I just find it…
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The Searchers 1956
This one was pretty crazy. It's Ford's woke Western: John Wayne's Ethan Edwards is commonly called racist by reviewers, but I still find myself trying to figure out how much of the racism of the full experience was self-aware. Given the time, it's probably laudable that the indigenous characters and viewpoint were afforded any humanity and agency at all, and that Edwards and the rest of the white dramatis personae were presented as "morally complex." However, this reviewer left his…
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This movie was amazing! I love witnessing the influences of theater on early movies, as in the style of acting that requires huge, exaggerated movements and facial expressions. It seems as if they hadn't yet quite figured out the value of the close up and subdued their emotion. Where's Zendaya when you need her? Probably stunning at the Met Gala! But I digress. Then again, the silent medium did require visual action to compensate for the lack of aural complexity,…
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