Watched A STRANGER IN TOWN last night and enjoyed it immensely.
Very low-budge & definitely a no-frills affair. Very lean on story- Mexican bandits kill Mexican soldiers & steal their uniforms and the Stranger enlists them to help him steal gold from American soldiers. Naturally, the Mexican bandits ripoff the Stranger and he has to steal it back.
The cheapness and sparseness of everything worked well in it's behalf IMO, by cutting out all the extraneous bullshit. For some reason the town is completely empty except for the bandits and some other gal & her baby. There's a few townies at the beginning, but they manage to disappear somewhere for most of the flick.
If you're looking for some deep political shit or existenialism, you ain't gonna find any of that here.
It's funny, but The Stranger himself looked like a short Barry Manilow by way of Terrence Hill. He's not like the usual iconic hero type. What I found kind of funny was that he (the character) seemed like he was
trying to be cool like a Man W/ No Name or a Django, but he kept getting his ass kicked and losing his gun.
He's a sneaky, tough & mean little bastard though! Think maybe Jack Burton from BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, and how he's a fuck-up and an ass kicker at the same time, but channelling Clint instead of The Duke without the intentional humor, but still managing to be funny if you think about it.
The only cast member that I recognised was Frank Wolf who played the sheriff in THE GREAT SILENCE among a zillion other SWs, as the Mexican baddie type role usually reserved for Volonte.
Anyway. it's pretty good. Check it out.
Oh, and the music's cool too.
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Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:46 pm
