FUCK! I guessed one year off.
I'm going back to Bogie. We just don't have actors like him anymore. To jump into that, I'd say this: this role is almost expressly written to go unnoticed. He barely has any dialogue, and almost all he does is de-escalate the situation. He is dry and sarcastic, a real dick and killjoy. But he stands out from the postcard Hollywood of everything else in this movie, practically popping in like someone from now being all like eh... this shits kinda lame and wack, doncha think? Bogie annihilates the role, no wonder he got noticed.
Based on a play, we get one of my fave things: minimalism. We got one set and mostly one room, actors talking and yes, it's very entertaining.
British lad Alan is wandering Arizona when he finds a hole in the wall restaurant where Gabby works but has bigger dreams. They hit it off and fall in love immediately. Meanwhile villain Duke and his boys are escaped convicts and radio broadcasts tell of their trip through Arizona. The criminals meet up with the star crossed lovers and the other shady characters in this nowhere town.
Funny, witty, but also simultaneously cliche beyond all words, this is something to behold. There's meditations on fate, love, destiny, dreams, reality, and everything in between. There's racial commentary. There's gramps, who's just thrilled to be there and wants to watch the bloodshed. It's all over the place.
I had seen it before but not reviewed it, and with rewatch it holds up. I love this movie.
No comments:
Post a Comment