tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post142956345010146119..comments2024-03-22T14:34:39.101-04:00Comments on MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema: A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL (Quien Sabe?, 1967)Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-3911883889069986582009-08-26T05:41:57.543-04:002009-08-26T05:41:57.543-04:00Well Samuel I can understand why your expectations...Well Samuel I can understand why your expectations were what they were. It is after all a Damiani flick and he does do marxist subtext. What his films also do though is tell stories, and tell them well. His eurocrime flicks are all a sheer joy and in many ways the antithesis of the more hyperbolic polizitto flicks. <br /><br />Damiani's world of crime is banal. Nothing like Lenzi's or Castellari's. He does not celebrate criminals or heroic supermen and pays attention to the effects of crime and how they have an effect on people in particular.<br /><br />The marxism may be a little blatant, but here you are dealing with what I would rank as one of the top eurocrime directors along with lenzi, di leo and castellari.<br /><br />Alas beyond his eurocrime and Bullet For The General I have had little success in tracking down any of his work in english friendly versionsNigel Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928346913206094978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-80012386524120803602009-08-20T00:06:52.635-04:002009-08-20T00:06:52.635-04:00Thanks for writing, folks. My own worry when I sta...Thanks for writing, folks. My own worry when I started to watch was that it was going to be artlessly blatant Marxism, but I was happily disappointed. Dave's comment about Kinski has put a memory of a music video that didn't exist in my head: "Dafe, I am your vater!"Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-91149217775703474462009-08-18T01:43:43.705-04:002009-08-18T01:43:43.705-04:00This is one of the greats. It's not that near ...This is one of the greats. It's not that near and dear to me as some others in the genre, but it is one of the best.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02208109184435483950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-10818076820723556872009-08-17T15:51:53.007-04:002009-08-17T15:51:53.007-04:00A bit of a favourite this one.
My wife has a so...A bit of a favourite this one. <br /><br />My wife has a soft spot for Nino but when I showed her Castel in Killer Nun she decided he hadn't aged too well :)<br /><br />I love how these westerns subvert the usual hero villain conventions and at times we get at best flawed heroes with questionable motives.Nigel Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928346913206094978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-36565155037186485622009-08-17T11:47:15.295-04:002009-08-17T11:47:15.295-04:00Samuel - First off, in seeing Klaus Kinski in the ...Samuel - First off, in seeing Klaus Kinski in the background of one of your screenshots, I have to see if anyone else will agree with my longtime assessment that Kinski and David Lee Roth look like twins? :)<br /><br />OK, now to your excellent review and the movie. My knowledge of Spaghetti Westerns is very limited, and along with horror are areas that I really look forward to diving into at some point. Basically, after Leone, I'm a complete neophyte. Fortunately, this one is available on Netflix and I'm going to go ahead and bump it up toward the top of my queue.<br /><br />Excellent work as usual... your writing is fantastic.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07134196370913749544noreply@blogger.com