Why is this QT's 2nd favourite movie of all-time?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino
Only one link I noticed in his works:
Stumpy: "That ain't no kinda answer" (Rio Bravo)
Marsellus Wallace: "That ain't no kinda answer" (Pulp Fiction)
Cheers
Um, cuz its a good movie? and Howard Hawks is brilliant.
"I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kinda like watching paint dry." -Night Moves
That is kind of surprising because this is a right-wing movie done as a counter to High Noon.
I am amazed that any of the liberals in Hollywood now would admit to have even watched it.
It's not particularly right wing (though we liberals love lots of movies that may have conservative subtexts). Hawks objection to "High Noon", as I understand, was more tactical than political. He just didn't think a sheriff would behave that way.
As for "High Noon" supposedly being a liberal movie, I'm not so sure that's as cut and dried as some think. You might check conservative director Lionel Chetwynd's great documentary about blacklisted writer/producer Carl Foreman and "High Noon" controversy.
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I'm guessing it was not Gary Cooper's character's behavior in High Noon that Hawks and Wayne looked down on, but that of his fellow townspeople.
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Hawks and Wayne objected to Cooper's attempts to recruit inexperienced people with families. This is why Wayne refuses this sort of help in "Rio Bravo".
It's hard to see how this could be a "left vs. right" issue.
I'm inclined to agree with you. Unless I miss the purpose of the bad guys they were after cooper not the town. if he had left town as he planned the townspeople would not have been in danger.
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if he had left town as he planned the townspeople would not have been in danger
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Well, he's got good taste. What's his all-time fave.
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=169370
wikipedia says:
In the 2002 Sight and Sound Directors' poll, Tarantino revealed his top-twelve films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Rio Bravo, Taxi Driver, His Girl Friday, Rolling Thunder, They All Laughed, The Great Escape, Carrie, Coffy, Dazed and Confused, Five Fingers of Death, and Hi Diddle Diddle.[9] A previous top-ten list also included Blow Out, One-Eyed Jacks, For a Few Dollars More, Bande à part, Breathless (the 1983 remake), Le Doulos, They Live By Night, GoodFellas and The Long Goodbye.not sure if they're in order though. share
Also when Butch dares Zed to "pick up that gun"...
"You want that gun don't you? Well pick it up...THAAAT A Boy!"
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Maybe cus RB is one of the best westerns ever.
In Vino Veritas.
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