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Moviehead 04/22/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Dead Man probably most promising film by Jim Jarmush is surreal western about city man who comes to wild west and he has to go through hard condictions. There is something beautiful and something scary about his journey and thanks to Jarmush something funny.
Dead man is great film. I did expected more from it and first time when i saw it i was disappointed, but later i realised how among the bunch of poor, stereotypical, uninteresting westerns this one is really great. |
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mitchellyoung 01/27/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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4/4 |
Jim Jarmusch directs a weird Western, populated with offbeat characters, stark black and white cinematography, and an introverted performance from Johnny Depp. It's also one of the best Westerns ever made, as it captures a different and bleaker side of the old West. |
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sapien 06/21/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Some parts of the movie were a little difficult to understand. But overall, it was a good movie. I especially liked the scenes with Robert Mitchum in them. |
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Drive-In Massacre 05/22/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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I've just finished watching this for the first time. I should give this another viewing very shortly, but as of right now - still, not fully developed on how I feel about it - this is my favorite American Western ever made.
Yes, more than The Searchers, Shane, Unforgiven, etc. It doesn't contain all the hokey-ness that those films do, and as far as modern westerns go, or any other film of that matter, it is too unique and creative and thorough in its world to forget. So original and adventurous.
I mean Johnny Depp, Lance Henrickson, Crispin Glover, Robert Mitchum, John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne, Iggy Pop, etc. and of course, the lone guitar score by Neil Young, only a guy Jarmusch could think up a cast and crew like that. |
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03/19/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Back in the day when Depp selected better roles and quality movies. It starts off with William Blake (Johnny Depp) riding on a train for a job opportunity. He arrives in a town where the position was taken and stumbles into Thel, a flower girl. After an unfortunate argument which accidentally kills Thel and a former lover, Blake then is hunted by 3 notorious killers. Viewing this again since a copy was available. This reviewer forgot how funny (first half of the film) and how incredibly detailed the background development was. Screenplay was great with lines: "Every night and every morn, some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight; some are born to endless night." from Nobody One of the wittiest/funniest lines:... |
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02/20/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"Dead Man" by Yojimbo |
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The wild west gets the Jarmusch treatment in this road movie without a road that sees eastern city accountant Johnny Depp finding himself wanted for murder and on the run in an unfamiliar wilderness and society that seems to be constructed from pure, undiluted death. The usual quirky mix of oddball characters and surreal images you'd expect from Jarmusch, Dead Man is most certainly not your typical western. Shot as westerns should be in black and white (echoing the best works of Ford and Mann) Depp's journey encounters a supporting cast to die for including Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Gary Farmer as his cryptic gibberish spouting Indian guide, Lance Henriksen as a psychopathic cannibal bounty hunter, Iggy Pop and Billy Bob Thornton who supply the funniest gun fight I've ever seen, Robert Mi... |
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