Paint Your Wagon
Added 11/16/2009
Bought this copy for my sister for Christmas 2009. I have had this movie for myself for years and years. I love the music in it and the story is funny.My sister borrowed my copy and had it for about 6 months and returned it to me so I thought I'd get her a copy for herself.
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Jaw droppingly subversive fun
Added 10/21/2009
I loathe musicals. Can't stand Westerns. Never liked Lee Marvin or Clint Eastwood. Detest hoedowns. And am allergic to California, gold, and boomtowns.
So how is it I love this film? I have no idea, but if you think you'll hate it too, I'm here to tell you: give it a chance.
I saw it on TV in the early 1970s, as a teenager, loved it then. Couldn't say why, though Harve Presnell singing "They Call The Wind Mariah" haunted me all my life, sustained me through many a weary wet mile...and put me off tenors for keeps. I saw part of it on TV in my 20s. Still seemed pretty good.
But Paint Your Wagon as been so consistently reviled by everyone for all time, I figured now, decades later, that I must have been misremembering, or too young. So I only considered seeing it now to show my partner, and to see how it treated the theme of polyamory and gender relations, which few films have ever treated with intelligence or respect. (My recollection was that it was compassionate, thoughtful, insightful, and funny...plus surprisingly punk-subversive.)
I went to various film review Web sites, and saw the film widely blasted. Then I came to Amazon and saw with great enjoyment that apparently I'm not alone in absolutely loving Paint Your Wagon.
Everyone here has already recapped the themes, the storyline, the characters, plot, songs, and quotes. All I can add is, if you'd like a trip through American culture before it descended into a miasm of corporate-media-dictated judgmental niggling, political correctness, fragmented identity politics, intolerance, and prudishness, let this movie be your Virgil. Hell, purgatory, and heaven never looked so human. Plus, watching that liberated bull reclaim hollow-gutted gold-worshipping No Name City for the earth, sky, and river has got to be one of the great mythopoetic image sequences ever on screen.
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very pleased
Added 9/14/2009
the movie arrived in a timely manner and was in excellant condition. have watched it 5 times already. am very pleased. thank you.
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A MUSICAL FOR EVERYONE
Added 8/14/2009
MUSICALS ARE NOT MY NUMBER ONE PICK OF MOVIES. WHEN I SAW THIS MUSICAL, I FELL IN LOVE. I GOT THE SOUNDTRACK RIGHT AWAY. I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS ALL I WOULD NEED TO REMEMBER THE MOVIE. I WAS WRONG. SO I STARTED LOOKING. GOT A NEW COPY AT A GREAT PRICE AND HAD IT SHIPPED FROM NC. NOTHING COULD BE FINER THAT TO BE IN CAROLINA WITH YOUR FAVORITE MUSICAL.
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Hillarious adult humor
Added 8/4/2009
We loved this film. It is Lee Marvin at his best and Clint Eastwood singing and looking gorgeous! Set in the early gold rush days, it includes settlers troubles and successes with humor and song.
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Paint Your Wagon
Added 11/16/2009
Bought this copy for my sister for Christmas 2009. I have had this movie for myself for years and years. I love the music in it and the story is funny.My sister borrowed my copy and had it for about 6 months and returned it to me so I thought I'd get her a copy for herself.
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Jaw droppingly subversive fun
Added 10/21/2009
I loathe musicals. Can't stand Westerns. Never liked Lee Marvin or Clint Eastwood. Detest hoedowns. And am allergic to California, gold, and boomtowns.
So how is it I love this film? I have no idea, but if you think you'll hate it too, I'm here to tell you: give it a chance.
I saw it on TV in the early 1970s, as a teenager, loved it then. Couldn't say why, though Harve Presnell singing "They Call The Wind Mariah" haunted me all my life, sustained me through many a weary wet mile...and put me off tenors for keeps. I saw part of it on TV in my 20s. Still seemed pretty good.
But Paint Your Wagon as been so consistently reviled by everyone for all time, I figured now, decades later, that I must have been misremembering, or too young. So I only considered seeing it now to show my partner, and to see how it treated the theme of polyamory and gender relations, which few films have ever treated with intelligence or respect. (My recollection was that it was compassionate, thoughtful, insightful, and funny...plus surprisingly punk-subversive.)
I went to various film review Web sites, and saw the film widely blasted. Then I came to Amazon and saw with great enjoyment that apparently I'm not alone in absolutely loving Paint Your Wagon.
Everyone here has already recapped the themes, the storyline, the characters, plot, songs, and quotes. All I can add is, if you'd like a trip through American culture before it descended into a miasm of corporate-media-dictated judgmental niggling, political correctness, fragmented identity politics, intolerance, and prudishness, let this movie be your Virgil. Hell, purgatory, and heaven never looked so human. Plus, watching that liberated bull reclaim hollow-gutted gold-worshipping No Name City for the earth, sky, and river has got to be one of the great mythopoetic image sequences ever on screen.
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very pleased
Added 9/14/2009
the movie arrived in a timely manner and was in excellant condition. have watched it 5 times already. am very pleased. thank you.
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