Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Added 11/8/2009
I had heard so much about this movie and love the music that Bob Dylan wrote for it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of my favorite actors were in it, and I've always loved Westerns. But for me personally, the best part was getting to see Bob act and to see the scenes that he wrote the music for.
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A genuine masterpiece!
Added 10/24/2009
Pat Garrett's director cut was the last Western of Sam Peckinpah. In certain way, this entry was an honor debt for this unforgettable. To get close to the most famed duel the West reminded.
The implacable prosecution of Garrett behind Billy's traces, the double moral when Billy reminds Garrett was on the other side of the law. The badge marks the difference.
The script depicts the Faustian attitude of Garrett when he decides to join forces with the Governor and entrepreneurs before the imminent changes to come in the far West. They need security for the investments, and so the pact is done. So, Garrett has signed his own sentence's death when he is ambushed in 1909.
The visual metaphor of the kids playing with in the gibbet and finally when the child throws a stone to Garrett remits us to the key sequence in "The wild bunch" , when a childish crowd plays with a scorpion, to emblematize the violent environment. On the other hand, the use of the violence's aesthetic in Peckinpah is now a personal and unsurpassed landmark, so many times imitated but never equaled (Quentin Tarantino has been influenced by Peckinpah, for instance)
James Coburn is over the top as the ruthless Garrett, he lives with astonishing realism every single movement, act or word. He breaths into the personage with such brilliant intensity that it should not surprise us he would be the cynical personage in "Cross of iron" from 1976.
A very detailed and complete portrait of this well known confrontation. Don't miss it.
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Added 6/16/2009
I bought this mainly because of Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Not a bad movie with a great cast of character actors.
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Keep the change Bob
Added 6/2/2009
Just a great western flick to watch from time to time... Almost historically accurate... artistic license covers that. Billy the Kid was a little guy, thats why he had to fight well, so Kris is the artistic tangent... other than that, I didn't know Bob Dylan was that old...
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pat garret & billy the kid
Added 4/28/2009
I first saw this movie when it came out some thirty years ago. I wanted to share it with my daughter recently who is into Bob Dylan. When I watched it again I was really intrigued by the sound track & scenes. Dylan
was young & funny without trying to be. Kristofferson was cool. A great revisit to a time gone by. Classic film!!
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Added 11/8/2009
I had heard so much about this movie and love the music that Bob Dylan wrote for it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of my favorite actors were in it, and I've always loved Westerns. But for me personally, the best part was getting to see Bob act and to see the scenes that he wrote the music for.
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A genuine masterpiece!
Added 10/24/2009
Pat Garrett's director cut was the last Western of Sam Peckinpah. In certain way, this entry was an honor debt for this unforgettable. To get close to the most famed duel the West reminded.
The implacable prosecution of Garrett behind Billy's traces, the double moral when Billy reminds Garrett was on the other side of the law. The badge marks the difference.
The script depicts the Faustian attitude of Garrett when he decides to join forces with the Governor and entrepreneurs before the imminent changes to come in the far West. They need security for the investments, and so the pact is done. So, Garrett has signed his own sentence's death when he is ambushed in 1909.
The visual metaphor of the kids playing with in the gibbet and finally when the child throws a stone to Garrett remits us to the key sequence in "The wild bunch" , when a childish crowd plays with a scorpion, to emblematize the violent environment. On the other hand, the use of the violence's aesthetic in Peckinpah is now a personal and unsurpassed landmark, so many times imitated but never equaled (Quentin Tarantino has been influenced by Peckinpah, for instance)
James Coburn is over the top as the ruthless Garrett, he lives with astonishing realism every single movement, act or word. He breaths into the personage with such brilliant intensity that it should not surprise us he would be the cynical personage in "Cross of iron" from 1976.
A very detailed and complete portrait of this well known confrontation. Don't miss it.
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Added 6/16/2009
I bought this mainly because of Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Not a bad movie with a great cast of character actors.
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