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Dead Man

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Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Produced by Demetra J. Jim Jarmusch (born January 22 1953 in Akron Ohio; ˈdʒɑrməʃ is an American independent Film director. MacBride
Written by Jim Jarmusch
Starring Johnny Depp
Gary Farmer
Music by Neil Young
Cinematography Robby Muller
Editing by Jay Rabinowitz
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release date(s) May 26, 1995 (Cannes Film Festival premiere)
Running time 121 minutes
Country USA/Germany
Language English
Budget $9,000,000 (est. John Gary Dale Farmer (born June 12, 1953) is a Canadian actor Farmer was born in Ohsweken Ontario into the Cayuga nation and Wolf Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician Robby Müller (born April 4, 1940 in Willemstad Netherlands Antilles) is a Cinematographer whose name is most often associated with Film director Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been )
Gross revenue $1,025,488 (USA)
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Dead Man is a 1995 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Jim Jarmusch (born January 22 1953 in Akron Ohio; ˈdʒɑrməʃ is an American independent Film director. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, and Robert Mitchum (in his final role). John Gary Dale Farmer (born June 12, 1953) is a Canadian actor Farmer was born in Ohsweken Ontario into the Cayuga nation and Wolf William Robert Thornton (born August 4 1955 James Newell Osterberg Jr (born April 21, 1947) better known by his Stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer Songwriter Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is primarily known as a Film Actor, but is also a painter, Filmmaker, John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940 is an English Actor. Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott He is the younger brother of actor Jeff Wincott. Lance James Henriksen (born May 5 1940) is an American Actor, painter, and potter. Robert Charles Durman Mitchum ( August 6, 1917 &ndash July 1, 1997) was an Academy Award nominated American film The movie is something of a Modern Western, dubbed a "psychedelic Western" by director Jarmusch,[1] which includes twisted elements of the Western Genre. The Revisionist Western, Modern Western or Anti Western traces to the late 1960s and early 1970s as a sub- Genre of the The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. The film is shot entirely in black-and-white. Black-and-white is a number of Monochrome forms in Visual arts.

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Plot

Bound from Cleveland, accountant William Blake arrives by train at the American frontier company town of "Machine" to assume a promised job in the town's namesake metal works. A frontier is a Political and Geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary, or of a different nature He discovers that his job is already taken and is driven from the workplace at gunpoint by John Dickinson, the ferocious owner of the company. Jobless and without money or prospects, Blake meets Thel Robinson, a former prostitute who sells paper flowers, and lets her take him home. Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie surprises them in bed and shoots Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body. A wounded Blake shoots and kills Charlie with Thel's gun before climbing dazedly out the window and fleeing Machine on a stolen horse. Company-owner Dickinson, the father of Charlie, hires three legendary frontier killers to hunt down Blake as the murderer of his son and Thel, although he seems to care most about regaining the stolen horse.

Blake awakens to find a large American Indian attempting to dislodge the bullet from his chest. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. The Indian, calling himself Nobody, reveals that the bullet is too close to Blake's heart to remove, and Blake is to all effects and purposes already dead. When he learns Blake's full name, Nobody decides Blake is a reincarnation [2] of William Blake the poet whom he idolizes but of whom accountant Blake himself is prosaically ignorant. William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 was an English poet, painter, and Printmaker. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Incredibly moved that Blake is now not only a visionary poet and painter but also a "killer of white men," Nobody resolves to escort Blake, before he dies, to the Pacific Ocean for a proper sea-burial that will return Blake to his proper place in the spirit-world. Discovering that Blake is being hunted, he also determines to assist Blake in expanding his legend by killing as many more white men as may become necessary.

Blake and Nobody travel West, leaving a trail of dead and encountering wanted posters announcing higher and higher bounties for Blake's death or capture. A wanted poster (or wanted sign) is a Poster put up to let the public know of a Criminal whom authorities wish to apprehend Nobody sends Blake into a camp of homicidal fur trappers, whom he and Blake dispatch. Blake learns of Nobody's past, marked both by Native American and White racism, which includes Nobody's abduction to, and escape from, Europe as a model savage. Meanwhile, the three bounty hunters are whittled down to one as the sociopathic Cole Wilson kills his less vicious companions out of annoyance.

Nobody leaves Blake alone in the wild when he decides Blake must undergo a vision quest. On his quest, two U. S. Marshalls surprise Blake and are killed, their bodies later found and desecrated by Cole. Blake spots local animal deities in human form, experiences the astonishing significance and beauty of his natural surroundings, and finds the remains of a young deer whose body he grieves over.

Later, he meets back up with Nobody, and they continue their journey. At a trading post, a bigoted Christian missionary trader identifies Blake and attempts to kill him, resulting in a shootout. Blake is shot again and his condition rapidly deteriorates. Nobody takes him by river to a Makah village and convinces the tribe to give him a sea canoe for Blake's ship burial. For Ozette in Tales of Symphonia see Tales of Symphonia The Makah (məˈkɑː from the Klallam name for the tribe màq̓áʔa) are a Native American A ship burial or boat grave is a Burial in which a Ship or Boat is used either as a container for the dead and the grave goods or as a part Blake deliriously trudges through the clean and orderly village before collapsing from his injuries.

Blake awakens in a canoe on a beach, wearing Native American funeral dress. Nobody bids Blake farewell and pushes him out to sea. As he floats away, Blake watches Cole sneak up behind Nobody, but he is too weak to cry out and can only watch as the two shoot and kill each other. As Blake gazes up at the clouds for the last time, he dies, and his canoe drifts out to sea towards the waiting sky on the horizon.

Cast

William Blake and Nobody.
William Blake and Nobody.

References to William Blake

There are multiple references in the film to the poetry of William Blake. Gibson Jerome "Gibby" Haynes (born 1957 is an American musician radio personality painter and the lead singer of the group Butthole Surfers. William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 was an English poet, painter, and Printmaker. Nobody recites from several Blake poems, including Auguries of Innocence, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The Everlasting Gospel. Auguries of Innocence is a Poem from one of William Blake 's notebooks now known as The Pickering Manuscript Http//www The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of William Blake 's Books a series of texts written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy but expressing Blake's When bounty hunter Cole warns his companions against drinking from standing water, it references the Proverb of Hell (from the aforementioned Marriage), "Expect poison from standing water". The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of William Blake 's Books a series of texts written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy but expressing Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of William Blake 's Books a series of texts written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy but expressing Blake's Thel's name is also a reference to Blake's The Book of Thel. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790

The film's soundtrack album and promotional music video also feature Depp reciting passages from Blake's poetry. Dead Man is the soundtrack to the 1995 Jim Jarmusch western-themed film of the same name starring Gary Farmer and Johnny Depp as William

Portrayal of Native Americans

This film is generally regarded as being extremely well-researched in regard to Native American culture. [3]

Dead Man is also notable as one of the rather few films about Native Americans to be directed by a Non-Native and offer nuanced and considerate details of the individual differences between Native American tribes free of common stereotypes. A stereotype (from Greek: stereo + týpos = "solid impression" is a generalized perception of first impressions behaviors presumed by a group There are untranslated passages in several Native American Languages, and Jarmusch included several in-jokes aimed at Native American viewers, or at least those with a fluent knowledge of the languages used. Indigenous languages of the Americas (or Amerindian Languages are spoken by indigenous peoples from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and [3]

Reception

In its theatrical release, Dead Man earned about $1 million for a budget of $9 million. [4] It is the most expensive of Jarmusch's films, due to the expense of black-and-white film processing, and the costs of ensuring accurate period detail.

Critical responses were mixed. Roger Ebert gave the film one-and-a-half stars (out of four stars maximum), noting "Jim Jarmusch is trying to get at something here, and I don't have a clue what it is". Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter. [5] Desson Howe and Rita Kempley, both writing for the Washington Post, offered largely negative appraisals. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D [6] Greil Marcus, however, mounted a spirited defense of the film, titling his review "Dead Again: Here are 10 reasons why 'Dead Man' is the best movie of the end of the 20th century. Greil Marcus (born 1945 is an American Author, music Journalist and cultural Critic. "[7] Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum dubbed the film an acid western, calling it "as exciting and as important as any new American movie I've seen in the 90s"[8] and went on to write a book on the film, entitled Dead Man (ISBN 0-85170-806-4) published by the British Film Institute. Acid Western is a sub-genre of the Western film that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that combined the metaphorical ambitions of top-shelf Westerns like Shane The British Film Institute ( BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film television The film scored a 'Fresh' 71% rating on website Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies.

Soundtrack

Main article: Dead Man (soundtrack)

In other media

Gary Farmer makes a cameo appearance as Nobody in Jim Jarmusch's subsequent film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, in which he repeats one of his signature lines of dialog, "Stupid fucking white man!"

Johnny Depp has makes a brief cameo as his character William Blake in the film L.A. Without a Map. Dead Man is the soundtrack to the 1995 Jim Jarmusch western-themed film of the same name starring Gary Farmer and Johnny Depp as William Gary Dale Farmer (born June 12, 1953) is a Canadian actor Farmer was born in Ohsweken Ontario into the Cayuga nation and Wolf Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 samurai Action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. LA Without a Map is a 1998 film directed by Mika Kaurismäki and written by Mika Kaurismäki and Richard Rayner, based on his novel

Rudy Wurlitzer's unproduced screenplay Zebulon inspired Jarmusch's film. Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer (born 1937 is an American novelist and screenwriter Wurlitzer later re-wrote the screenplay as the novel The Drop Edge of Yonder.

See also

References

  1. ^ Break with the past - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
  2. ^ In an interview Jarmusch states "For Nobody, the journey is a continuing ceremony whose purpose is to deliver Blake back to the spirit-level of the world. Since the 1970s fictional Feature films have been filmed almost exclusively in color To him, Blake's spirit has been misplaced and somehow returned to the physical realm. " [1]
  3. ^ a b Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2000). Dead Man. London: Cromwell Press. ISBN 0-85170-806-4
  4. ^ Dead Man (1995) - Box office / business
  5. ^ :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Dead Man (xhtml)
  6. ^ 'Dead Man' (R)
  7. ^ Salon Arts & Entertainment | Dead again
  8. ^ Chicago Reader Movie Review

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