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""The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you'd visited Missouri lately, you'd be surprised that any famous outlaws or literary talents had ties to the state. These days its a series of small towns with weirdly designed subdivisions that often look like a bunch of giant blocks thrown into some farmer's hay field. The streets will often be gravel instead of pavement or asphalt. I have yet to make sense of the place.

10/6/07, 3:24 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Americans are certainly great hero worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes," which hasn't changed much in our age of The Sopranos and gangsta rap.

And the NFL.

10/6/07, 4:05 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, its dirge-like pacing makes it more reminiscent of Malick's excruciatingly slow 2005 version of the Pocahontas tale, "The New World."

"The New World" is one of the best movies of the last 45 years.

And at the risk of invoking the wrath of the FBI's "Child Exploitation and Pornography" Unit, one of the most sensual, as well.

Glorious cinematography, Salad days, and Köchel 488 are a tough combination to beat.

Plus the fact that an un-Godly number of living, breathing, flesh & blood American citizens are descended from the union depicted in that movie:

Pocahontas X John Rolfe = Thomas Rolfe
Thomas Rolfe X Jane Poythress = Jane Rolfe
Jane Rolfe X Robert Bolling = John Bolling
John Bolling X Mary Kennon = Jane Bolling, John Bolling, Elizabeth Bolling, Mary Bolling, Martha Bolling, and Anne Bolling

The final scene, of Pocahantas's grave, at St George's, Gravesend, is enough to make grown man cry.

PS: If you live in the greater mid-Atlantic region, and if you have little kids, then I guarantee you there are fewer things on God's green earth more fun than spending a week in the general vicinity of Williamsburg & Jamestown, with a multi-day pass to Busch Gardens & Water Country USA.

10/6/07, 12:04 PM

Blogger Ron Guhname said...

At the beginning of the movie, I thought that the artsy Western was going to turn out to be something special, but ultimately it disappointed.

10/6/07, 12:24 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

And the Jena 6

10/6/07, 2:26 PM

Blogger Dennis Dale said...

Thank goodness. It was beginning to look like an estate sale around here.

10/6/07, 2:48 PM

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