TNL Mokey Club: Duck, You Sucker

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

AKA Once Upon a Time...The Revolution.


It was only four or five years ago that I finally warmed up to the western genre. My pop was always a fan and I can recall many childhood saturday afternoons spent having to sit through John Wayne or James Stewart movies. I didn't get the attraction. We have motorcycles and hot rods. Who the fuck wants to ride a stinky old horse? However, there were some films I didn't mind though, and they pretty much all had this guy in them who looked a lot like Dirty Harry.
Those movies seemed a bit different. I wouldn't have called them gritty because I didn't really know the word, but they were definitely a bit off kilter than most of the cowboy movies I had seen. For one, the good guys were just as dirty and prone to misdeeds as the bad guys were! That guy who kept going from one band of outlaws to the other and playing the sides against each other didn't wear pristine clothes and a clean shaven face. There was something more dangerous about these films. I still thought horses were for faggots, but I could respect a guy who rode into town and raped one of the first women he saw.

So like I said, a few years ago I decided I wanted to get into Westerns and start a collection. The first thing I bought was The Man with No Name Trilogy. The second thing I bought was Once Upon a Time in The West. I eventually saw Once Upon a Time In America. It was only a few months ago that I found out Leone had another film that sat between the two Once Upon a Times. That film is this film.

James Coburn and Rod Steiger star in this film about an Irish explosives expert and the Mexican bandito who forces him to blow up a bank, not knowing that the valuables kept inside aren't what he expected. Things spiral out of control from there.

This film didn't explode upon the scene to critical or financial success, but I like it. It's got a nice mix of action, drama, and comedy. Like all of Leone's films it's beautifully shot and to top it off, it has a great Morricone soundtrack.

Trailer:


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[GohanX]

I've never heard of it, but that is one fucking awesome movie poster.

[Thief Silver]

Here is the Fedex ground guy who goes to work and who loves Western's list of top Western's:

A Fistful of Dollars
A Man Called Horse
Angel and the Badman
Barbarossa
Bite the Bullet
Blazzing Saddles
Broken Arrow
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cheyenne Social Club
Dances with Wolves
El Dorado
For a Few Dollars More
Fort Apache
High noon
High Plains Drifter
Hombre
Jerimah Johnson
Last of the Mohicans
Little Big Man
Lonesome Dove
Magnificent Seven
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
McLintock
My Darling Clementine
Once Upon a Time in the West
Open Range
Outlaw Josey Wales
Oxbow Incident
Pale Rider
Quigley Down Under
Rio Grande
Rio Lobo
Shane

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Silverado
Stagecoach
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Support your Local Sheriff
The Cowboyws
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The Gunfighter
The Mountain men
The Sacketts
The Searchers
The Shootist
The Wild Bunch
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
True Grit
Unforgiven
Westworld

Take in mind some are just based off stuff like Indians but that's his list.

[arjue]

This is a genre I have not dabbled in enough. Great pick!

[Doc Holliday]

Really? arjue, I am dissapoint.


Good Pick, SSJN. Although, this is my least favorite Leone film. But, any Leone movie is better than 90% of other movies.

[Doc Holliday]

Also two things: My beef with this movie is it doesn't know how to end. The cut I first saw is the 156 min cut, which is on IW. If you get the 2-disc DVD, it has the 138 minute European release cut, I prefer that one, but there's still kind of like two climaxes in this movie, where TGBU & OUTIW both have clear definitive climaxes at the end. And don't watch the 121 American cut, it leaves out too much shit and doesn't fix the end.

And two: Leone named this Duck You Sucker in English, because he thought that was some common phrase like Jive Turkey or something.

[D_N_G]

DUCK [spoiler]YOU SUCKER!![spoiler]

It's a little more campy than the other 2 in the trilogy, but Movie is pretty rad... that is all

but there's still kind of like two climaxes in this movie

what a coincidence, just last night when I thought your mom had reached her peak, she kept going on and on until she hit that second summit

[Doc Holliday]

Hmmm, I guess if you had at least an average size penis, it wouldn't have taken so long. You must remind your wife of back home.


Also, best quote about revolutions in anything ever

I know what I am talking about when I am talking about the revolutions. The people who read the books go to the people who can't read the books, the poor people, and say, "We have to have a change." So, the poor people make the change, ah? And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, eh? But what has happened to the poor people? They're dead! That's your revolution. Shhh... So, please, don't tell me about revolutions!

[D_N_G]

dinga dinga. dink dink. dink dink. ding.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

MUSICAS!