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waitingman) wrote2021-04-04 10:04 am
waitingman) wrote2021-04-04 10:04 am
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The Easter Five
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1) Pick one of your favorite movies: what is the title?
I have trouble even thinking of a top 10, let alone singling out a favourite! The first one that came to mind then - 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'... a 1970s western from Clint Eastwood. Please excuse the terrible 1970s trailer - especially the voice-over!!
2) When and where and with whom did you first see it?
Most likely on television in the 80s some time & most likely with my Father. Then many times on VHS & later DVD - often again with my Father
3) What about the movie makes it one of your favorites?
Not even Sondra Locke's appalling 'acting' can ruin it. So many memorable scenes, even the bit-part characters are memorable, there are so many funny lines & set-pieces, all underpinned by a story arc representing the 5 stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance... & ultimately redemption. Plus it was the first Western to treat the 'Indians' as equal players & shine a light on their stories of suffering under the white man's theft & destruction of their homelands
4) If you've watched this movie since the pandemic quarantine started, how did it make you feel?
I haven't, but it's probably time to see it again. I usually watch it at least once a year. I feel a bit lighter in heart & mind afterwards...
5) If this movie was remade, who would you cast for the five main characters and why?
Josey Wales - Timothy Olyphant , Chief Lone Watie - Michael Horse , Granny - Susan Sarandon, Laura Lee - any young blonde starlet will do..., Little Moonlight - Julia Jones, Fletcher - Russell Crowe
1) Pick one of your favorite movies: what is the title?
I have trouble even thinking of a top 10, let alone singling out a favourite! The first one that came to mind then - 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'... a 1970s western from Clint Eastwood. Please excuse the terrible 1970s trailer - especially the voice-over!!
2) When and where and with whom did you first see it?
Most likely on television in the 80s some time & most likely with my Father. Then many times on VHS & later DVD - often again with my Father
3) What about the movie makes it one of your favorites?
Not even Sondra Locke's appalling 'acting' can ruin it. So many memorable scenes, even the bit-part characters are memorable, there are so many funny lines & set-pieces, all underpinned by a story arc representing the 5 stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance... & ultimately redemption. Plus it was the first Western to treat the 'Indians' as equal players & shine a light on their stories of suffering under the white man's theft & destruction of their homelands
4) If you've watched this movie since the pandemic quarantine started, how did it make you feel?
I haven't, but it's probably time to see it again. I usually watch it at least once a year. I feel a bit lighter in heart & mind afterwards...
5) If this movie was remade, who would you cast for the five main characters and why?
Josey Wales - Timothy Olyphant , Chief Lone Watie - Michael Horse , Granny - Susan Sarandon, Laura Lee - any young blonde starlet will do..., Little Moonlight - Julia Jones, Fletcher - Russell Crowe
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2. In the 80s in USSR with my wife with Russian translation.
3. Everything... but something special about Ennio Morricone music...
4. I haven’t...
5. No one!
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2. In the theaters when it came out.
3. It encompasses all things that make Star Wars legendary: space opera scope, heroes and villains, an impossible threat, so much death and destruction and sacrifice, and in the end the heroes win, but at such a great and terrible cost.
4. I feel exactly the same way about it; it is so powerful and uplifting and arguably one of the best Star Wars films ever made.
5. This movie is less than five years old; remakes can't even enter into the equation.
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