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- Alas, the visuals of Dead Man stand out just as prominently as its sound and its plot. It's filmed solely in black-and-white, and it exclusively utilizes fade-to-black transitions with regard to continuity editing.
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Dead Man: Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen. On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Jim Jarmusch
- 1996-05-10
Nov 15, 2020 · Dead Man does not look or feel like a Western—the black-and-white film and close-up dialogue scenes aren’t anywhere in the same hemisphere, aesthetically speaking, as genre...
- The Story
- The Score
- Scope and Circumstance
- “Endless Night”
On its surface, the plot follows timid William Blake (Johnny Depp). With no money or family left, Blake makes his way to the dirty, horseshit-laden, industrious town of Machine (“The end of the line”) only to find that the job offered to him has already been taken by someone else. Mocked, ridiculed, and facing rock bottom, Blake’s quest for momenta...
While visually stunning in its grainy, sharp, and at times harshly contrasted black-and-white appearance, all of this might not be as memorably framed if it weren’t for Neil Young’s otherworldly score. It’s hard to image the kind of film this would’ve been without it. Young’s score is a cycling drone of rough, raw guitar that punctuates scene trans...
The unbiased beauty of circumstance plays a major part in Dead Man’s rather simplistic, direct story. While the revisionist Western genre concerns itself with telling stories that change the exact, accurate history of America’s wild west for dramatic effect, Dead Man doesn’t exactly fit well in this genre beyond a superficial descriptor. This is in...
Dead Manis perhaps one of the most emotionally-leading and personal modern stories set to the falling era of the West around. Set in an era where the wildness was becoming tainted by factory smoke, buffalo were massacred to the point of near-extinction, and the Natives of America, as well as their traditions, were reduced to smoldering remains, it ...
Featuring austerely beautiful black-and-white photography by Robby Müller and a live-wire score by Neil Young, DEAD MAN is a profound and unique revision of the western genre.
Featuring austerely beautiful black-and-white photography by Robby Müller and a live-wire score by Neil Young, Dead Man is a profound and unique revision of the western genre.
- William Blake
Jun 28, 1996 · “Dead Man” is a strange, slow, unrewarding movie that provides us with more time to think about its meaning than with meaning. The black and white photography by Robby Muller is a series of monochromes in which the brave new land of the West already betrays a certain loneliness.
The closest I can compare this too is a cross between a Spaghetti Western & Jeremiah Johnson in black and white. Everyone should give this a shot once. It will definitely leave an...
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