Whilst Anonymous Boxer continues on her break, here is this week’s Movie Clip Wednesday.
If you’re new to MCW, the idea is that you search YouTube and other channels to find the best representation of the given theme – however lateral – and then post ‘Im Up’ in the comments box below my entry so that we can all come round to check for jinxes and great films that we have either never seen or not viewed in a long time.
Buzzkill is responsible for this week’s selection of Best Gunfight Scene. I could and probably should have gone any one of a number of Clint Eastwood shoot-outs that come to mind – Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? – or The Magnificent Seven or one of the many Westerns that populated my childhood cinematic viewing – we had an LP of Western Movie themes and I am now humming along to The Big Country – but what pops into my mind first…?
Enjoy!
Hi Joanna,
I’m up at “The Palais” this week with a Jinx… Damn It!
Great minds think alike!
Happy MCW….
Good afternoon Joanna,
Well I make it 3 for the jinx! This may be a record. Princess is right.The only a real safe thing to say in this situation is “great minds think alike”.
Hope you’re enjoying your clip day!
Karl recently posted..Movie clip Wednesday- Shootout
Never bring a knife (sword) to a gun fight. Bwahahaha Looks like everyone had RotLA on their minds today – except me of course. I went to the psychotic side for my gun battle today at the Buzzkill.
The Boy graduates today, so I may not get around to see everyone until tomorrow.
Happy MCW!
Dear Joanna,
excuse me please, I have to beg your pardon: As happened last week I only realised that it was about time to find something for MCW when it was too late.
Last week I stumbeled on dear Princess’s post about “London” and the first (and sadly only) thing that showed up in my head was a horror flic from the very early 70s – and I know that you do not like horror movies so I did not put it up. The sequence I found has no blood and gore, but is very atmospheric, no good idea.
This week I also was very late – it is already Thursday in Franconia – and I have to confess that I botched it, other things came in my way. The video I would have put up is here, a variation of the ending of “The Shootist” with the incredible John Wayne and the great Lauren Bacall, a lady I deeply admire.
It is an edited version, a “how it should have ended”, and I think it is appropriate. There is shooting, yes, but what makes it stand out is that the blam is not there for itself – I am tired and can not express it in the way I would like to, excuse me please: Other blam-scenes are only for the noise and the shooting and the killing – Peckinpaw drove this over the top in the Wild Bunch – I really do not like that. In a way he reduced his figures to “Abziehbilder”, a kind of sketches.
Here the man goes in doing what has to be done.
Pathetic, yes, but honest.
Whatever the theme will be next week, I will find something in time!
Hey 63mago, you are forgiven x Especially as you tried to save my sensibilities by protecting me from horror movies :)
John Wayne and Lauren Bacall, what a fabulous combination and an ending that doesn’t just use ammunition for the sake of the bang. I like your style and your choice.
Next week Actors/Actresses who were one-hit wonders. So a great movie and then we never saw them again.
Karl and Princess – my favourite great minds thinking alike :)
Enjoy graduation, Buzz xx
I’m partial to John Wayne in the original “True Grit”. “Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKThgLq21Rc
Os, we have the new version of True Grit on our list of movies to watch. I just can’t see how anyone could possibly walk in the shoes of the Duke.