| Posted by: bigred760 at February 14, 2006, 11:41 am | | Topic: King Kong!! WOW! (Reviews) Forum: JoBlo | | If I remember correctly, Bonnie & Clyde was the first movie to use squibs while The Wild Bunch was the first to show a bullet enter a character and then leave the character - using a squib in the front and the back. I credit the latter with creating the modern rating system. There's kind of a small stab at previous westerns in The Wild Bunch, particularly John Ford's westerns. The church/anti-sin/ant-drinking group that is marching through the street at the beginning is singing "Shall We Gather at the River" which was a staple of John Ford's westerns. They sing it and then the town get shot to hell - kinda symbolic, no? I'm kind of obsessed with stylized violence. The Wild Bunch is obviously a perfect example of that. But the shoot 'em ups rarely provide much entertainment as far as I'm concerned. Most of them are cliched as hell. I'm a bigger fan of sword or samurai movies - Last Samurai is one of my all-time favorite movies now - or action oriented flicks that don't deal with guns at all - like King Kong. Yes there is a lot of quick editing in King Kong and it might detract from the scene; but one of the things I took away from The Wild Bunch, and am reminded by every time I see it, is that violence is chaotic and I think the quick editing adds to that chaos. I totally agree that the first King Kong was a spectacle - whether it was violent, visual, or just cinematic overall. You just can't argue with that. You kind of lost me with the Willis O'Brien part: who was he? A director or a stop motion animator? |
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