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Lukaschik Gleb

Dead for A Dollar


Many times used to be that I had wish, which I still have, that inactive talent get an opportunity what it happened and it’s coming back was unwanted. In a bright future or stance, which will opposite to nowadays reality about this film would write something “absolute example of political correctness” and with heavy heart can be a stroke “the great filmmaker Walter Hill marred himself.”


I counted three times that there should be using of “nigger” instead of “amigo” from some Mexican or “a back-up gun and a woman” from lips of Willem Dafoe who in contacts with anachronisms by wearing, my apologizes, underwear, which origin will after two decades and a mirror in a jail isn’t from the end of nineteenth century. These things aside willn’t make better an undeveloped screenplay where I had multiple quantities of want to understand of what’s going on. Enticing of Dead for A Dollar in directing decisions, what executes a cinematographer and beautiful western music plays. Dialogs usually were in wonderful elegance until it will that Hill’s devotion to create graceful phrases will losing of the ground as disruption will with everything. The film will take theatrical exaggerated talks and ultimately will turn setting into a fantasy world. Somewhere I had thoughts on identical in that with director’s Wild Bill, which zany stance was almost from a start and saved to the credits.


A final gun shooting, which with no savvy origin, in a small Mexican town is demonstration of lonely shots of how each evil will ride to their death and after bullet shot will die in beautiful way by dump on the ground subjects, break a table and fall into fountain’s water with a big splashing. That’s a surprise from a forged director from whom also absence of how to make worry for characters who considered as good guys and don’t rid from primal thinking that all of them will live. Many personages gathered in one place, but not all will initially show up in activeness. A lot of them will in waiting until camera will show them.


I didn’t see personalities in Walter Hill’s film. She just told her version of story, which did switching to main hero’s mind. Christoph Waltz is not cheesy in performing as I watched him in the most seen films. Just one time he showed it in Dead for A Dollar allowed a normal performing for see he isn’t a perfect actor whereas leader of Mexican gang and Englishman in rare performance and never had slip out in acting. This film for watching on Willem Dafoe who is a character despite his presence is incredibly extreme coincidental.

Ted Kotcheff said that he doesn’t like when actor acts. No one of the rest embodies a personage and no one can performing. Moreover in this worst that Walter Hill takes too many close-ups, which, let me remind, require more acting demonstration.

Black Warren Burke is overacting by making his personage modern. And I can’t believe in having same skin color Brandon Scott’s hero. Meeting of both is conversation in break time on western filming set.

Rachel Brosnahan is following to requirements of political correctness about contemporary woman who are screaming that doesn’t need man’s care. These funny females allow a blatant behavior due to nobody punish them for that. Brosnahan with feckless acting does unnatural for those times hysteria in hearing question, “Who is the woman?” by saying, “I have a name…” It was of moments when I wanted to shut down this movie. Waltz’s personage without make an action and speak nothing advances walking and talking unrealistic Brosnahan whose that story on having many men isn’t so unbelievable for then, but I got other epoch again.


I had in guts for the last weeks or most certainly more that Walter Hill did his absolutely worst movie by keeping today’s common. I was right and I was with inner disgusting in a throat after ended the watching.




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