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The Good, The Bad and The Weird - El Dingo - 01-21-2009
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901487/
Epic.
My all-time favorite movie is "Little Big Man".
A close second is "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". I wore out my LP of Ennio Morrcone and learned to whistle with that soundtrack. I sat through the 3 hour version at the Castro a few years back and wanted more. I wanted a pancho to wear to school in the seventies. Fortunately my parents never obliged.
So, a Korean remake of this classic film had me a touch wary.
This is no remake.
This is a complete reimagining of the key characters in a similar, but not identical situations. The subtitles were superimposed over Japanese subtitles so I may have missed something, but I believe this takes place in turn-of-the-century Mongolia, where a secret map holds the location of untold treasure. This map is obtained by the Japanese (again - not sure, judging by costumes).
Three men are after the map; the gangster Yoon-Tae-Goo (The Weird), the mercenary Park Chang (The Bad) and the bounty hunter Park Do-Wan (The Good). See the similarities?
The initial train robbery has the best single-shot I can remember since "Absolute Beginners" as you follow the character down the length of the locomotive. The robbery soon becomes chaos as different factions enter the fray. Think "Mad Max" with six-guns.
The movie gives you a couple minutes of breathing room as people are killed for various reasons one at a time during backstories.
Most of the film is shown with sweeping desert backdrops, with several characters in period costume and violent human and horse abuse.
The director certainly had a reverential attitude to his source material, and the resulting 2:15 epic could easily be shown as a double-feature with the original to those with buns of steel.
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Re: The Good, The Bad and The Weird - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 01-21-2009
Okay. I've added it to my queue.
it just got 8 AFA nominations - Drunk Monk - 01-21-2009
Quote:The Good, The Bad, The Weird tops nominations for Asian Film Awardshttp://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=42775&Category=
Jean Noh in Seoul
21 Jan 2009 17:46
The Good, The Bad, The Weird - Kim Jee-woon's rollicking Oriental Western, took eight nominations in total, including those for best film, director, and cinematographer. Song Kang-ho picked up a nod for best actor, while Jung Woo-sung and Lee Byung-hun both got nominated in the best supporting actor category.
Other nominees in the best film category are Chen Kaige's Mei Lanfang biopic Forever Enthralled, Hayao Miyazaki's animation Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea, Riri Riza's school drama The Rainbow Troops, John Woo's historical action film Red Cliff, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's family drama Tokyo Sonata.
Choosing the winners from the nominations will be a 13-person jury presided over by actress Michelle Yeoh. Other jury members include Christian Jeune from the Cannes film festival; Kenji Ishizaka from the Tokyo film festival; Christophe Terhechte from the Berlinale; Noah Cowan from the Toronto film festival; and Park Ki-yong, filmmaker and head of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA).
The awards presentation ceremony will be held March 23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, as the Opening Gala of the Entertainment Expo Hong Kong.
The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) and the 7th Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) also start March 23.
Full list of Asian Film Awards nominations
Best Film
Forever Enthralled (Mainland China)
The Good, The Bad , The Weird (South Korea)
Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea (Japan)
The Rainbow Troops (Indonesia)
Red Cliff (Mainland China)
Tokyo Sonata (Japan / The Netherlands / Hong Kong)
Best Director
Feng Xiao-gang - If You Are The One (Mainland China)
Kim Jee-woon - The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korea)
Koreeda Hirokazu - Still Walking (Japan)
Brillante Mendoza – Service (The Philippines)
Miyazaki Hayao / Frank Marshall - Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea (Japan)
John Woo - Red Cliff (Mainland China)
Best Actor
Ge You - If You Are The One (Chinese)
Ha Jung-woo - The Chaser (South Korea)
Akshay Kumar - Singh Is Kinng (India)
Matsuyama Kenichi - Detroit Metal City (Japan)
Motoki Masahiro – Departures (Japan)
Song Kang-ho - The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korea)
Best Actress
Fukatsu Eri - The Magic Hour (Japan)
Jiang Wenli - And The Spring Comes (Mainland China)
Deepika Padukone - Chandni Chowk To China (India) \
Yoshinaga Sayuri - Kabei - Our Mother (Japan)
Zhou Wei - Painted Skin (Mainland China / Hong Kong)
Zhou Xun - The Equation Of Love And Death (Mainland China)
Best Newcomer
Matsuda Shota - Boys Over Flowers: The Movie (Japan)
Sandrine Pinna - Miao Miao (Taiwan / Hong Kong)
So Ji-sub - Rough Cut (South Korea)
Xu Jiao - CJ7 (Hong Kong)
JeeJa Yanin – Chocolate (Thailand)
Yu Shaoqun - Forever Enthralled (Mainland China)
Best Supporting Actor
Nick Cheung - Beast Stalker (Hong Kong)
Jung Woo-sung - The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korea)
Lee Byung-hun - The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korea)
Tsutsumi Shinichi - Suspect X (Japan)
Wang Xueqi - Forever Enthralled (Mainland China)
Best Supporting Actress
Aoi Yu - Sex Is No Laughing Matter (Japan)
Jaclyn JOSE – Service (The Philippines)
KIKI Kirin - Still Walking (Japan)
KIM Ji-yeong - Forever The Moment (South Korea)
Gina PARENO – Service (The Philippines)
Best Screenwriter
NA Hong-jin - The Chaser (South Korea)
LI Qiang - And The Spring Comes (Mainland China)
Tom Lin / Henry Tsai - Winds Of September (Taiwan / Hong Kong)
Kurosawa Kiyoshi / Max Mannix / Tanaka Sachiko - Tokyo Sonata (Japan / The Netherlands / Hong Kong)
Mitani Koki - The Magic Hour (Japan)
Best Cinematographer
Ato Shoichi - Paco And The Magical Book (Japan)
Cheng Siu-keung – Sparrow (Hong Kong)
Lee Mo-gae - The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korea)
Jola Dylewska – Tulpan (Germany / Kazakhstan / Poland / Russia / Switzerland)
Wang Yu / Nelson Lik-wai Yu - 24 City (Mainland China)
Waluyo ICHWANDIARDONO - The Rainbow Troops (Indonesia)
KIM Sun-min - The Chaser (South Korea)
Best Visual Effects
Craig Hayes - Red Cliff (Mainland China)
KIM Wook - The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korea)
Yanagawase Masahide - Paco And The Magical Book (Japan)
Re: The Good, The Bad and The Weird - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 01-21-2009
It's good to see that Jeeja Yanin got a nomination.
What the heck am I talking about?
Big Cheeks - cranefly - 01-21-2009
Last year I really got into South Korean films. My favorite Korean actor starred in The Host and in several other
noteworthy films. I nicknamed him Big Cheeks because he has these prominent slabs for cheeks. His name is
Song Kang-ho.
I see that he is in The Good, the Bad and the Weird, though I'm not certain which he is. However, if I were
directing, he would be the Weird, without hesitation.
By the way, I recently dissed Miike's samarai western. I stand by my review, though some people have liked it.
I'll point out one more asian western I've seen, the Thai "Tears of the Black Tiger." It is a bit too maudlin at times for me,
but has some distinct and well-thought-out stylistic flourishes. So I would recommend it, but with some reservations.
I'll add The Good, the Bad and the Weird to my list too. Thanks.
Re: The Good, The Bad and The Weird - thatguy - 01-26-2009
That was fun...kinda made me think of Indiana Jones. I had to go read up on Manchuria to understand the Japanese/Chinese/Korean dynamic. This was way more entertaining than Sukiyaki Western Django.
--tg