RIP Harry Dean Stanton
- Thread starter Johnny Vodka
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8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Weird that, after the first few seconds it sounds like Staunton's dialogue is being revoiced by someone else - and then goes back to him doing it later.
It's ADR. The dialogue, parts of was probably redubbed in later.
Fozzie Bear
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Just rewatched Repo Man with a bunch of mates, most of us hadn’t seen it for 25 years. Still clunky but brilliant.
Wilf
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"Best damn car in the yard"
Wilf
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Saoirse don Phalaistín!
Insane tacked on prologue to A Fistful of Dollars... why? Gosh only knows. I'm just impressed with HDS managing to keep a straight face
elbows
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That was great, but I wish American audiences could STOP FUCKING WHOOPING!
On a somewhat related note, I love the musical part of the following. Because to start with its a bit awkward a lot of the audience are laughing, and then Harry Dean & Art Garfunkel win them over. Then Jack pulls a face and the mood returns to laughter. Then they win them over completely again and people start joining in.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
This was created for the TV airing, mainly because of the Hays code, "to give a moral justification for the lead character's killings"
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Aye. Still bollocks,mind
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
total shite yeah
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
That scene was directed by Monte Hellman. He wasn't too shabby a director.
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And what, ten, twelve years after the film? Had to justify the narrative of it?
Imagine if the same bollockology had been done to Yojimbo?
Aside from all that; still grieving over HDS. Loved him.
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Dunno his stuff, tbh.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Can't imagine Yojimbo was ever shown on network US telly during the 70s...or since
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Two Lane Blacktop was his greatest work
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Saoirse don Phalaistín!
Not sure. Must find out.My late uncle was mad into the westerns and their origins... can't remember if it was him or someone elese who alerted me to the Japanese originals...
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
There's a good reason why the US made English language versions of Foreign films, and it's because US audiences (outside of the art-house cinema scene) won't go and watch subtitled films. The Studios also buy up the rights to lots of foreign films and stop their distribution in the US to make way for the remakes to be successful and without those pesky better versions to compare against (see infernal affairs, The Ring etc)...
The VHS market opened the floodgates during the 80s and lots of dubbed HK and Japan flicks got through, and european films....
Leone and Corbucci were not stupid when they started making westerns, so got American actors, or dubbed European actors to fill the main roles.....they figured they'd get a chance of getting them seen in US cinemas....and remaking Yojimbo with an American lead was a stroke of genius....
The VHS market opened the floodgates during the 80s and lots of dubbed HK and Japan flicks got through, and european films....
Leone and Corbucci were not stupid when they started making westerns, so got American actors, or dubbed European actors to fill the main roles.....they figured they'd get a chance of getting them seen in US cinemas....and remaking Yojimbo with an American lead was a stroke of genius....
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Saoirse don Phalaistín!
Have to say again; I love both Yojimbo and follow ups and the Leone efforts...
Have had many arguments overthe years as tothe better. Down to the individual at the end of the day...
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Yojimbo has been remade a few times now....best remake is Dollars by a mile, the original is a masterpiece. They stand equal in my eyes....
possibly the worst version....
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Saoirse don Phalaistín!
Yojimbo has been remade a few times now....best remake is Dollars by a mile, the original is a masterpiece. They stand equal in my eyes....
possibly the worst version....
For real? Jesus, the poster alone ...
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
For real. Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis wasn't great, and that's a shame because I'd expect more from Walter Hill.
Django is also a Yojimbo remake, but a loose one. It was Corbucci (Django director) and Leone seeing Yojimbo together at the cinema that inspired them to kick start the whole Spaghetti Western genre....
elbows
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Probably not the Hays code, because that would also have applied to a cinema release but was dead long before the tv release in this case. More likely down to the 'standards and practices' department of whichever tv network showed it.
Harry had many unsatisfying tv roles throughout a long stretch of his career, I guess that crap scene wasn't the worst of them for him!
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Yep, pretty sure you're right....it was kind of a hays code type thing, but a network TV version of it....it was because Eastwood's character wasn't a good guy, and they had a problem with him getting the money at the end (moral ambiguity and the like) so came up with the prologue to give 'a mission' ....hence in the TV version the idea would be he took the money back to the Government when he left town...
