The man who was able to prevail
The man who was able to prevail
The man who would be king (1975)
Director: John Huston
Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Karroom Ben Bouih
"If John Ford was a god or a king, Orson Welles and John Huston were next to him on the throne." Tan said the striking phrase when a friend of mine, many years ago, I attended a retrospective on Ford was organized at the Cine Doré Madrid. Some may consider this statement somewhat exaggerated (although the same Welles used to say that the three best directors in the history of cinema had been John Ford, John Ford and John Ford), but the fact is that these three men are perhaps the most prominent talents in the classical era of Hollywood, which covers roughly the years from 1930 to 1960. With Huston's death, which occurred in 1987, was closed for a long period in which creators brimming with talent, self-centered, and tozudos rebels were about to seize the Mecca of film. By then everything had changed: chupatintas and picapleitos were now the owners of the bar. Definitely madmen had taken control of the asylum and the consequences we are now paying all lovers of good cinema.
In the'70s, when Hollywood produced even more than video games or video clips filmed in two hours, John Huston was a kind of living icon. John Ford died, with Orson Welles defenestrated for years because of his "artistic delusions" and clashes with industry and with most of its peers in the process of withdrawing or removed directly, Huston was the only one of the directors' Hollywood classic "maintaining a regular and stable career, although there were those who considered that his best moment had passed. Demonstrating how wrong they were, that's when Irish drunkard uncovered a film that certainly deserves to be among the best of its director.
The man who could be shown to prevail in film schools as a clear demonstration of what is likely to make a good adventure movie without falling into the movie business necedades modern trash. There are no major battles in abysses lost computer-generated, or gratuitous violence, no sessions disguised as fireworks explosions, but the essence of the word "adventure" is evident everywhere.
The man who was able to prevail is an adaptation of a story by Rudyard Kipling in the Victorian period, two thugs who leave the British army in India to seek their fortune in a simple remote and inhospitable country. The problem arises when one of them ends up believing a god, with unpredictable consequences. To shoot the film, Huston moved to Morocco with a team and a relatively small budget, but had two aces up its sleeve to bring forward a very good job if Michael Caine is wonderful, Sean Connery was due to his work in the film , finally separated from the straitjacket of James Bond in which he was involved. With an easy to interpret and full of subtle nuances, the Scot demonstrated that he could be much more than bolting 007. Also noteworthy is the emergence of Karroom Ben Bouih, a man who will premiere in the cinema with 103 years playing the role of the high priest, and that is probably the oldest junior player who never has been put in front of a camera. Nor does anything wrong, the unique notándose "hand" that Huston was in the direction of actors.
Definitely this is an adventure movie of the same as before, which may not attract a young and too accustomed to Vin Diesel, but it shows that the film entertaining and well done so far and always remains, however much it has People engaged in selling DOOM as "an adventure film in any rules." Touch feet.
