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Paris, Texas (1984) 8.0
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before... See full summary » Director:Wim Wenders |
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Cast
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Sam Berry | ... |
Gas Station Attendant
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Doctor Ulmer
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Anne Henderson
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Car Rental Clerk
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Hunter Carson | ... |
Hunter Henderson
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Woman on TV
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Socorro Valdez | ... |
Carmelita
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Edward Fayton | ... |
Hunter's Friend
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Hunter - Age 3
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Screaming Man
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'Slater'
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'Stretch'
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A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
19 September 1984 (France) See more »Also Known As:
La búsqueda See more »Box Office
Budget:
£1,162,000 (estimated)Gross:
SEK 4,810,795 (Sweden)Company Credits
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Travis: Oh yeah? What's your business?
Walt: I make billboard signs for advertising.
Travis: Oh yeah? So *you*'re the one who makes those signs, I love those. Some of them are beautiful.
Walt: I'm not the only one who makes them, Trav.
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Musicians Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith claimed this was their favorite movie of all time. See more »Goofs
When Travis shows Walt and Hunter the picture of the vacant lot he bought it Paris, Texas, the photograph shows a desert landscape. Paris, Texas is located near the forests of East Texas, hundreds of miles from any desert. See more »Quotes
Walt: We live in the suburbs, but I've got my business in townTravis: Oh yeah? What's your business?
Walt: I make billboard signs for advertising.
Travis: Oh yeah? So *you*'re the one who makes those signs, I love those. Some of them are beautiful.
Walt: I'm not the only one who makes them, Trav.
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I felt so tired of all those comments saying how beautiful the photography is or, for those who havent enjoyed the film, how the photography isnt enough to sustain the whole silentness of the first 2/3 of the movie.
It just sounds like a hollow praise for a hollow minded cute, blonde and gorgeous girl. In fact, it is an offense.
For a director that first was inspired by images and then looked for stories to fill them and give them reasons to be released as films (he says this in a book). Wenders achieves his high technical and vision point concerning his way of thinking, not just film but life in this masterpiece.
He had before discussed the production of images and how this affects our way of seeing and perceiving life. But in Paris, Texas the image, the landscapes really becomes a character, not just to give a good photography and make those 2 1/2 hours that the movie lasts oh!!, so beatiful to watch!!, or to make us get in its atmosphere... The landscapes are so important as the words, or actions, between the characters are, it really touches people surrounded by it, it influences some how their personalities. I mean, each photograme tries to bring this relation.
It is beautiful how Wenders can build his caracters personalities, not by the way they think or act, but what impresses them, what visually interests them - like when Travis is watching not the airplane, but its shadow on the ground while it takes off.
After all that, i can just say that the rest of the whole story is made by really beautiful, touching and delicate situations of a man's life trying to reorder the lost pieces from a puzzle.
And, yes, the conversation between Travis and his ex-wife by the last half hour to the end is one of the most touching moments seen on the screen.