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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#30)100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies (#67)100 Movie Quotes (#36 - Gold Hat: "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!")The Revised Top 100 (#38) I watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre instantly on Netflix a week ago but have not had the time or the energy (thanks to the killer flu of 2008) to blog about it until just now. I also haven't known exactly what to say. This was my second viewing of this film; I watched it a first time some years ago but didn't remember it very well going into it this time. I'm not sure why. It's a superbly executed story, exploring some heady themes such as the seed of evil and the effects of greed in man, but it's just not a fi ... "
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"John Huston got everything right when he made The Dead. First, it was a great choice of material. In the past others have tried to adapt James Joyce’s works and failed. Instead of picking a monumental project, Huston picked his best short story. He maintains a brisk pace on this 84 minute masterpiece. Despite the short time, Huston gives us an absolutely brilliant and intimate view of the difference between love and passion and acceptance of what we have. From the humorous and boorish conversations at the Christmas party to beautifully haunting carriage ride home where Greta, played by the director’s daughter, Angelica, tells her husband a devastating secret. The cinematography on this movie is fantastic. Even if the rest of the movie was a disaster (which it isn’t) the transcendent shots would make watching this worth every second. It was a great feather in his cap that he was able to have his children involved in his last film. It is especially fitting si ... "
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"I keep reading posts about what this film would be like if made today minus its time-placing colloquialisms. I'll tell you: the film will fail. This film was made with so much care, the characters so perfectly played by the actors portraying them that I believe it would be an exercise in futility (not to mention a huge waste of money). See this film, enjoy it for what it is - there's a reason Bogey and the Hustons are enduring stars - their work will last the ages (much like Hemmingway and Steinbeck, in my opinion). I will probably end up watching this film numerous times because it was such a joy. Now that I know what to expect, I'll be on the lookout for the various nuances in every aspect of its being. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. "
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"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is so good largely because the script keeps you guessing, yet everything that happens seems to fit. Also, shooting on location in Mexico gives the picture a gritty look that a studio lot cannot. Finally, this morality tale about the corrosive effect of money on men is portrayed by three excellent actors. The best, for my money, is the least known, Tim Holt, who plays Curtin so matter-of-factly that the realism is striking. Walter Huston is also strong as the old man who has the prospecting knowledge. He does not overemphasize his wisdom, and he does not act like a stereotypical old geezer. The weakest of the strong bunch is Humphrey Bogart, but in fairness to him, he had the most difficult part to play, and the script sometimes required such sudden bouts of paranoia that there was no way he could deliver the lines naturalistically. Thoroughly enjoyable. "
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"i rate this movie in my top 10 of all time. This is a well constructed screenplay and art direction at its best. The barren desert (filmed in mexico) and man's greed and pursuit of money fill the story line so that the superb actors bring the parable to life. "
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"My knowledge of acting talent from the silver screen days is limited. But I do really dig this idea of what would a film would mean if it were in a different era?Like Fight Club. I think if it were set at the turn of the century, it would probably be close to Battleship Potemkin. When you think of the political unrest between the very rich and the very poor, I think Battleship distilled into film that general sense of unrest the way Fight Club distilled into film how the ideal middle-class existence is really boring, even insanity inducing. Both films had the same result: men revolting.In the reverse scenario, a film I'd love to see done today is Treasure of the Sierra Madre. With all of prerequisite post-WWII gags and the ethnocentric portrayal of Mexicans stripped out, I think the guts of that flick make a great story about relationships falling apart the closer people get to having what they've always wanted. "
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