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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Classic Throwback: The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)

My own experience, Steve McQueen, when he did not leak from the cold? He is riding a motorcycle (The Great Escape), driving a car (Bullitt), or brandishing a shotgun (in The Getaway), is a comprehensive hard.





The latter is a 1972 American thriller Crime controversial director Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs before that date). Based on a novel by Jim Thompson, with a screenplay adapted by Walter Hill, The Getaway was a financial success and is now considered an offense Classic 70 - enough to cause a poorly received 1994 remake starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, anyway.

Opening sequences you know immediately that this is a film Peckinpah. This is a complete rejection of the Convention, such as using a random, out-of-type, non-linear audio / video Montage is a life of monotonous life in prison in Texas - and the suffering of a prisoner, Carter "Doc "McCoy (McQueen). Gutted in words denied having been sentenced to 10 years, McCoy has sent his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw), make a deal with Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson), a corrupt businessman who exercises his power to secure his release on bail. He has been successful, the rule that Doc organize the bank robbery with men personally chosen Benyon: Rudy (Al Lettieri the Godfather) and Frank (Bo Hopkins).

Upon receipt at home with civilians to life outside prison, Doc began his careful planning of the robbery. He does not trust his colleagues shady and potentially unstable, which is contrary to his instructions, or seem disinterested. During the robbery, as expected, plans to run. Frank shoots the guard, when his gun (which is incomprehensible to stay lying next to him during the whole event) and the subsequent flight, the first double victory at the cross, Rudy, Frank, and then you have been injured in an attempt to kill Doc and maintain the same money. Doc and Carol then went to Laughlin, the hotel arranged a hiding place in El Paso, when Rudy forces the veterinarian rural, Harold (Jack Dobson) and his wife, Fran (Sally Struthers), to treat his wounds, and push it to El Paso in a couple of attempts to capture.


The other half is punctuated by some great action sequences, which fits just as well today. McQueen is the most significant commitment fraudster who has stolen loot from the robbery of railway Locker by train. Brilliantly edited, and actually produce a kind of tension, this is a much more content than most other action sequences Peckinpah, but equally effective. Violent shootout at its peak between McQueen and Benyon henchmen are excellent and includes some of the most realistic to use a shotgun, I have seen so far. I do not know the sequence of the most famous film, which ends McQueen and MacGraw trapped in a garbage truck pick up and ride to the dump, was artificial and unnecessary.

I think it was against a role model for McQueen, who is again convincing. Although it is a career criminal and a psycho border-line, we can not help but wish that he and Carol finally escape. Plus it's Steve McQueen. The guy is just cool. To make nice Doc, but he will face against some despicable thugs and Rudy is definitely one. Al Lettieri a lot of fun, but his wicked ridicule, took a little too far in the scenes where he is intimate with Francisco while her husband was tied up and forced to watch. Ali MacGraw performances dish should also be noted. I thought it was terrible, and although his loyalty to Doc is questionable, and one is never sure if her affection for him is all for the show, their chemistry has been challenged by its lack of convincing emotions. The excitement and mistrust underlying rises throughout history is also hampered by clunky dialogue.



The Getaway is dirty - the corrupt businessmen, double-cross, desperate vehicular activities and moist climate - and plenty of Peckinpah trademark visual style ballet and violence (shootings intense and well-edited are soaked in typical use a slow movement). The story unravels at a feverish pace, and even artificial and ultimately pointless, the movie has a lot of style - though largely due to the presence of McQueen.

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