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Post by petrolino on Oct 8, 2023 3:44:18 GMT
Hyperbolic, I know, and as a fan of modern westerns I place it among many ('Pale Rider', 'Young Guns', 'The Last Outlaw', 'Tombstone' .... there's plenty to enjoy). But, I do feel this is the greatest western in American cinema since Sam Peckinpah's heydey. Now, it's largely available to view on youtube for anyone keen to revisit, as part of the popular 'Movie Clips' series, so its reputation online is finally growing.
"I like it better this way ... I get to see you run ..."
'The Long Riders' - Ry Cooder
Quentin Tarantino's book 'Cinema Speculation' was a fine movie-viewing recollection that also served as a timely reminder of what many of us already knew, that Walter Hill's one of the best in the business. This, is to my mind, a Hill masterpiece, so if you've not seen the film, and have an interest in doing so, I would suggest NOT watching even one second of this clip below as it contains spoilers ...
{Spoiler}
... Keith Carradine being shot through the shoulder and launched upwards from his horse, only to be shot through both cheeks, with rattling teeth heard on Ry Cooder's soundtrack, has to be the pièce de résistance ... QT's man Eddie Bunker being hit by a tree before NFL linebacker Tim Rossovich's chest gets exploded ... Robert Carradine front-flung from his horse and riddled with bullets at ground level as his horse lays on a crush (not to mention David Carradine's chest area being ruptured by bullets as portly Randy Quaid's soft belly gets opened up) ...
... but I do consider this sequence, when seen in its entirety, to be the single greatest in American western cinema history since the climax to 'The Wild Bunch' (1969).
Youtube Excerpt _ "The Big Bank Job" [SPOILERS!!]
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 8, 2023 5:05:24 GMT
That's good, The Long Riders deserves a better reputation and it's one of Walter Hill's best.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 8, 2023 5:08:55 GMT
That's good, The Long Riders deserves a better reputation and it's one of Walter Hill's best.
How do you pull off that pre-epilogue, shootout finale? It's insane, and on a relatively modest budget, which perhaps helped Walter Hill to concentrate his assets.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 8, 2023 5:13:57 GMT
That's good, The Long Riders deserves a better reputation and it's one of Walter Hill's best.
How do you pull off that pre-epilogue, shootout finale? It's insane, and on a relatively modest budget, which perhaps helped Walter Hill to concentrate his assets.
I've always said that shootout finale was a work of art. |
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Post by petrolino on Oct 8, 2023 5:18:48 GMT
How do you pull off that pre-epilogue, shootout finale? It's insane, and on a relatively modest budget, which perhaps helped Walter Hill to concentrate his assets.
I've always said that shootout finale was a work of art.
Timewise, I'd compare it to the climactic clampdown in 'Dillinger' (1973) that sees John Dillinger's gang being hunted down by an enlarged police force systematically, similarly, an absolute masterclass in low budget action filmmaking conducted by John Milius.
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Post by politicidal1 on Oct 8, 2023 12:57:07 GMT
I generally like Walter Hill’s movies but admittedly, I hadn’t seen this one yet.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 8, 2023 15:53:22 GMT
I generally like Walter Hill’s movies but admittedly, I hadn’t seen this one yet.
Something to look forward too (not too many westerns make the grade nowadays).
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Post by Power Ranger on Oct 11, 2023 19:23:11 GMT
It’s a good film. The casting of four sets of brothers is rather remarkable and works well.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Oct 12, 2023 18:28:32 GMT
I generally like Walter Hill’s movies but admittedly, I hadn’t seen this one yet.
Something to look forward too (not too many westerns make the grade nowadays).
I am a fan of The Long Riders too. Have you seen Walter Hills TV western BROKEN TRAIL (2006)? Wonderful film starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Hayden Church. |
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Post by petrolino on Oct 14, 2023 1:26:31 GMT
Something to look forward too (not too many westerns make the grade nowadays).
I am a fan of The Long Riders too. Have you seen Walter Hills TV western BROKEN TRAIL (2006)? Wonderful film starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Hayden Church.
No. Two actors I enjoy watching. Robert Duvall I enjoyed in the tv western 'Lonesome Dove'. Thomas Haden Church cracks me up; Dennis Quaid says he loves the guy.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 14, 2023 4:22:09 GMT
It’s a good film. The casting of four sets of brothers is rather remarkable and works well.
Today, people rarely recognise the Guest brotherss among the Carradine, Keach and Quaid brothers, which Bobby Carradine said was testament to the talents of his bubbies the Guests who were perhaps more readily associated with comedy at the time, but this was just the best four sets of America-based acting brothers on the planet at the time.
I mean, the long moppet riders was among the first to cite the soundtrack and its importance to music and film, noting this revival and how it was done ...
'Jesse James'
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Post by petrolino on Mar 9, 2024 3:45:13 GMT
Walter Hill pulls in a surprise guest mid-interview ... Smoked alive [FAB TV]
Walter Hill on film directing ...
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Post by Power Ranger on Mar 9, 2024 16:35:18 GMT
I like Keith Carradine. He was in so many great films.
He appears on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast which is available on youtube.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 9, 2024 21:52:18 GMT
I like Keith Carradine. He was in so many great films. He appears on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast which is available on youtube.
Thanks for the youtube recommendation ('371 Amazing Colossal Podcast Keith Carradine').
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