tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361087063517934891.post1658860330745548564..comments2024-01-09T05:41:10.873-05:00Comments on The Blue Vial: Sharp ('34 - '13)Drew McIntoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054307044280470117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361087063517934891.post-12501517036313220982013-02-13T00:58:36.192-05:002013-02-13T00:58:36.192-05:00Yeah, the back-to-back contrast between The Grisso...Yeah, the back-to-back contrast between <i>The Grissom Gang</i> (visually one of Alrich's most audacious and loud films I think) and <i>Ulzana's</i> is really illustrative of the degree to which he's pulling back in the latter. All for the best though, as you say; it's really one of the great screenplays ever written. The Penn is invested a little more with a certain directorial style, but again the material is so strong and structurally intelligent that everything is pulled in the right direction.<br /><br />We may disagree on <i>The Hired Hand</i>, but I don't argue with what you say here - Fonda clearly has no issues letting the terseness evaporate from paper to screen in order to indulge his end. Despite Sharp's presence being overwhelmed I still find it an incredibly moving experience taken purely as an exercise in ambiance. Drew McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054307044280470117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361087063517934891.post-44072854122713049152013-02-12T18:42:35.969-05:002013-02-12T18:42:35.969-05:00Amen. I know you like The Hired Hand, and I'll...Amen. I know you like The Hired Hand, and I'll try not to speak against it too much, but for me the reason that the other two work so well and it doesn't is that Fonda is essentially working against the script while Aldrich and Penn were working with it. This is true of Aldrich especially. Ulzana's Raid came at the tail end of one of the director's most stylistically flamboyant and provocative periods, yet it's clear that the director knows how good the material he's been handed is, and shoots it without flash and in the spirit of what's actually written.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com