list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Last Man Standing on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Last_Man_Standing/110582/default.aspx Title: Last Man Standing
Year: 1996
Director: Walter Hill
Plot: The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze racket. Strozzi (Ned Eisenberg) leads a gang of Italian rum-runners with the help of his right-hand-man Giorgio (Michael Imperioli), while Doyle (David Patrick Kelly) is the head of an Irish mob, with Hickey (Christopher Walken) serving as his enforcer; the town's sheriff, Ed Galt (Bruce Dern) is powerless to stop the crime in Jericho, and he mainly tries to stay out of the way and keep an uneasy peace between Strozzi and Doyle. John Smith (Bruce Willis) is a ruthless and amoral gunman on the run from the law who passes through Jericho on his way to Mexico. Sizing up the situation, Smith quickly hatches a scheme by which he'll sell his services first to one of the gangs, and then the other, eventually turning the two sides against each other while he stays in the middle and takes the profits generated by both sides. Writer and director Walter Hill based his screenplay on Akira Kurosawa's classic samurai picture Yojimbo, which also inspired Sergio Leone's ground-breaking spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:45:30 GMTLast Man Standing1996Walter HillThe traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze racket. Strozzi (Ned Eisenberg) leads a gang of Italian rum-runners with the help of his right-hand-man Giorgio (<a href="/players/P____34393/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Michael Imperioli</a>), while Doyle (<a href="/players/P____37499/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>David Patrick Kelly</a>) is the head of an Irish mob, with Hickey (<a href="/players/P____74206/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Christopher Walken</a>) serving as his enforcer; the town's sheriff, Ed Galt (<a href="/players/P____18703/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Bruce Dern</a>) is powerless to stop the crime in Jericho, and he mainly tries to stay out of the way and keep an uneasy peace between Strozzi and Doyle. John Smith (<a href="/players/P____76618/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Bruce Willis</a>) is a ruthless and amoral gunman on the run from the law who passes through Jericho on his way to Mexico. Sizing up the situation, Smith quickly hatches a scheme by which he'll sell his services first to one of the gangs, and then the other, eventually turning the two sides against each other while he stays in the middle and takes the profits generated by both sides. Writer and director <a href="/players/P____94395/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Walter Hill</a> based his screenplay on <a href="/players/P____98309/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Akira Kurosawa</a>'s classic samurai picture <a href=/films/39264/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Yojimbo</a>, which also inspired <a href="/players/P____99378/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sergio Leone</a>'s ground-breaking spaghetti western <a href=/films/11801/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>A Fistful of Dollars</a>. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide4Slightly Tagged (1-5)12123http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t00389gkbod.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Last_Man_Standing/110582/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_films_from_Kevin_Jackson_s_list/657/42597/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Body: Here are some more if anyone cares: 8. Stanley Kubricks's 'Napoleon' Riding high on the critical success of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Kubrick believed that he had MGM in the palm of his hand, and was finally in a position to make 'the one film I've always wanted to make, the life of Napoleon'. He was almost right: Napoleon came so close to being shot that some filmographies - such as that in Joseph Gelmis's The Film Director as Superstar (1970) - actually list it as a completed work. Cynics were not slow to point out the reasons why Kubrick might have found the Corsican such an appealing subject, but their quips were blunted by the director's own willingness to confess how much he identified with Bonaparte, even down to copying the undiscriminating manner in which Napoleon wolfed his food. Kubrick planned to start shooting in the winter of 1969 - three months on location, four in studio - using as many as 40,000 infantrymen and 10,000 cavalry. Jack Nicholson, still a hungry young actor, was the unconventional choice for the title role. By August 1969, however, corporate changes at MGM meant that Kubrick no longer had approval for his grandiose scheme, and he went on to develop the much more modestly budgeted A Clockwork Orange, from the novella by Anthony Burgess. One of the few concrete survivals from this busy period is Burgess's novel Napoleon Symphony, dedicated to Kubrick. 7. Bernardo Bertolucci's 'Red Harvest' Ever since the late 1960s Bernardo Bertolucci had been telling people that one of his dream projects would be a film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel. He came closest to achieving the dream in the early 1980s, when Jack Nicholson and Debra Winger were both attached to the project. It soon fell through, partly because of a complication concerning rights to the book. But perhaps it would have been a rather redundant project anyway, since the essential plot of Red Harvest has turned up, only lightly disguised, in everything from Kurosawa's Yojimbo (a samurai version) to A Fistful of Dollars to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome to Miller's Crossing to Last Man Standing...
]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:45:30 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls6/10/2009 11:45:30 AMHere are some more if anyone cares: 8. Stanley Kubricks's 'Napoleon' Riding high on the critical success of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Kubrick believed that he had MGM in the palm of his hand, and was finally in a position to make 'the one film I've always wanted to make, the life of Napoleon'. He was almost right: Napoleon came so close to being shot that some filmographies - such as that in Joseph Gelmis's The Film Director as Superstar (1970) - actually list it as a completed work. Cynics were not slow to point out the reasons why Kubrick might have found the Corsican such an appealing subject, but their quips were blunted by the director's own willingness to confess how much he identified with Bonaparte, even down to copying the undiscriminating manner in which Napoleon wolfed his food. Kubrick planned to start shooting in the winter of 1969 - three months on location, four in studio - using as many as 40,000 infantrymen and 10,000 cavalry. Jack Nicholson, still a hungry young actor, was the unconventional choice for the title role. By August 1969, however, corporate changes at MGM meant that Kubrick no longer had approval for his grandiose scheme, and he went on to develop the much more modestly budgeted A Clockwork Orange, from the novella by Anthony Burgess. One of the few concrete survivals from this busy period is Burgess's novel Napoleon Symphony, dedicated to Kubrick. 7. Bernardo Bertolucci's 'Red Harvest' Ever since the late 1960s Bernardo Bertolucci had been telling people that one of his dream projects would be a film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel. He came closest to achieving the dream in the early 1980s, when Jack Nicholson and Debra Winger were both attached to the project. It soon fell through, partly because of a complication concerning rights to the book. But perhaps it would have been a rather redundant project anyway, since the essential plot of Red Harvest has turned up, only lightly disguised, in everything from Kurosawa's Yojimbo (a samurai version) to A Fistful of Dollars to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome to Miller's Crossing to Last Man Standing... http://www.spout.com/blogs/joem18b/archive/2008/12/22/38713.aspx Post By: joem18b
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Post Date: 12/22/2008 1:28:51 PM
Body: When The Dark Knight ended, I thought, well, there won't ever be another one quite like that. I felt sort of sad about it, but was also glad that the movie was so good and that I had seen it. Ledger put his mark on the movie and now he's gone. A sequel might be as good or better than The Dark Knight, but it won't be the same. Ledger's death instantly made The Dark Knight one-of-a-kind, frozen in time. The old saying ran through my head, "After they made this one, they broke the mold." Acting in this movie, Ledger made the mold that the industry was undoubtedly planning to use, and will probably still try to use, in the future, but it won't be the same. Ledger made the mold and when he died, he broke it.I happened to watch The Longshots next and I can report that the longshots mold is not broken. Lowly team of losers, its coach a struggling yet tough and tender man adrift, a woman who will stand by her man - in this case, two women, actually, the genre's duties split between a sister-in-law and a teacher of the coach's neice. Small town somewhere in the midwest. And some kind of first - first all-black team or first team of kids from reform school or first native-american girls hoop team or hockey team of kids who can barely skate or the last baseball team before the town's ballfield is plowed under and planted in corn, or... well, in this case, first Pop Warner team with a female quarterback. But this particular species of sports mold over the years has been reworked to this extent: the lowly underdogs make it to the championship game, yes, but in that last .01th of a second, they no longer always win. In, say, 70% of the movies they win, but otherwise, they do a little character-building losing. Adds a little suspense to the movies now. How will The Longshots come out? Will they win or lose? And then, in this genre, before the credits roll, those little postscript epilog messages pop up: "The next year, in 1955, the Wartberg Warthogs came back to Septic Field and this time won the championship, 99-0, led by Sissy Stirrups, even though she played with a broken breastbone, no two broken breastbones, the whole season."Molds were also in play in Last Man Standing. I was in the mood for Bruce Willis and a lot of two-fisted automatic handgun fire, which is why I snagged it at Blockbuster. Yojimbo created the mold, Fistful of Dollars came out of it, and so did Last Man Standing. The same movie, three cultures, and the mold is not broke.Three movies that didn't bother with a mold that could be broken later - no mold was ever made - these movies are unique: The Saddest Music in the World, The Fall, and Summer Love. Saddest Music and The Fall are relatively well known hereabouts. Piotr Uklanski's Summer Love is a Polish Spagetti Western in which Val Kilmer gets plugged at the beginning of the movie and lies dead throughout the rest of it. A film surpassingly strange and a lot of fun (U.S. title: Dead Man's Bounty). More movies that didn't break the mold: Breaking the Mold: The Kee Malesky Story (2003); Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold (1991); TV Land Landmarks: Breaking the Mold (2004).Just plain old mold: Black Mold Exposure (2009), Mold on a Peach (2002), Toxic Mold Solutions (2003).Uplifting: Molder of Dreams (1991), Moldovskaya skazka (1951), Love Molds Labor (1911).Downlifting: Down with America 3: Moldy Kitten (1999), Moldy's Madhouse (2001), Cet imbécile de Rimoldi (1961).Not so moldy: Smoldering Lust (1993).Dlom (mold spelled backwards): Discounts For Lack Of Marketability: The Movie (2007).
]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:28:51 GMTjoem18bjoem18b Blog12/22/2008 1:28:51 PMWhen The Dark Knight ended, I thought, well, there won't ever be another one quite like that. I felt sort of sad about it, but was also glad that the movie was so good and that I had seen it. Ledger put his mark on the movie and now he's gone. A sequel might be as good or better than The Dark Knight, but it won't be the same. Ledger's death instantly made The Dark Knight one-of-a-kind, frozen in time. The old saying ran through my head, "After they made this one, they broke the mold." Acting in this movie, Ledger made the mold that the industry was undoubtedly planning to use, and will probably still try to use, in the future, but it won't be the same. Ledger made the mold and when he died, he broke it.I happened to watch The Longshots next and I can report that the longshots mold is not broken. Lowly team of losers, its coach a struggling yet tough and tender man adrift, a woman who will stand by her man - in this case, two women, actually, the genre's duties split between a sister-in-law and a teacher of the coach's neice. Small town somewhere in the midwest. And some kind of first - first all-black team or first team of kids from reform school or first native-american girls hoop team or hockey team of kids who can barely skate or the last baseball team before the town's ballfield is plowed under and planted in corn, or... well, in this case, first Pop Warner team with a female quarterback. But this particular species of sports mold over the years has been reworked to this extent: the lowly underdogs make it to the championship game, yes, but in that last .01th of a second, they no longer always win. In, say, 70% of the movies they win, but otherwise, they do a little character-building losing. Adds a little suspense to the movies now. How will The Longshots come out? Will they win or lose? And then, in this genre, before the credits roll, those little postscript epilog messages pop up: "The next year, in 1955, the Wartberg Warthogs came back to Septic Field and this time won the championship, 99-0, led by Sissy Stirrups, even though she played with a broken breastbone, no two broken breastbones, the whole season."Molds were also in play in Last Man Standing. I was in the mood for Bruce Willis and a lot of two-fisted automatic handgun fire, which is why I snagged it at Blockbuster. Yojimbo created the mold, Fistful of Dollars came out of it, and so did Last Man Standing. The same movie, three cultures, and the mold is not broke.Three movies that didn't bother with a mold that could be broken later - no mold was ever made - these movies are unique: The Saddest Music in the World, The Fall, and Summer Love. Saddest Music and The Fall are relatively well known hereabouts. Piotr Uklanski's Summer Love is a Polish Spagetti Western in which Val Kilmer gets plugged at the beginning of the movie and lies dead throughout the rest of it. A film surpassingly strange and a lot of fun (U.S. title: Dead Man's Bounty). More movies that didn't break the mold: Breaking the Mold: The Kee Malesky Story (2003); Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold (1991); TV Land Landmarks: Breaking the Mold (2004).Just plain old mold: Black Mold Exposure (2009), Mold on a Peach (2002), Toxic Mold Solutions (2003).Uplifting: Molder of Dreams (1991), Moldovskaya skazka (1951), Love Molds Labor (1911).Downlifting: Down with America 3: Moldy Kitten (1999), Moldy's Madhouse (2001), Cet imb&eacute;cile de Rimoldi (1961).Not so moldy: Smoldering Lust (1993).Dlom (mold spelled backwards): Discounts For Lack Of Marketability: The Movie (2007). http://www.spout.com/groups/The_Casting_Futon/Re_Seven_Samurai_remake/305/8933/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: josephkuzma
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Post Date: 5/17/2007 6:34:31 AM
Body: There haven't been specifically bad ones but they've also never done a straight remake. The Magnificent Seven was the closest thing to a true remake of Seven Samurai but it wasn't a samurai movie, etc. so it avoided being to literal.The same can be said for the Yojimbo/Sanjuro remakes: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Last Man Standing, etc.I think Kurosawa, like his sometimes inspiration Shakespeare, lends himself more to reinterpretation rather than imitaion.If this is a direct remake then it has a lot to live up to. If it's a reinterpretation it may have a good chance of being, at the very least, adequate.
]]>Thu, 17 May 2007 10:34:31 GMTjosephkuzmaThe Casting Futon5/17/2007 6:34:31 AMThere haven&#39;t been specifically bad ones but they&#39;ve also never done a straight remake. The Magnificent Seven was the closest thing to a true remake of Seven Samurai but it wasn&#39;t a samurai movie, etc. so it avoided being to literal.The same can be said for the Yojimbo/Sanjuro remakes: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Last Man Standing, etc.I think Kurosawa, like his sometimes inspiration Shakespeare, lends himself more to reinterpretation rather than imitaion.If this is a direct remake then it has a lot to live up to. If it&#39;s a reinterpretation it may have a good chance of being, at the very least, adequate. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/remake/MemberTagFilms.aspxremake
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