Without the drive or the sulfur smell of New Mexico or West Texas, you can live there for a few minutes with this wonderful film. There is outstanding photography of the west. My favorite tag-line of the film is, while placing a big bet at poker, Big Boy jokes, " Well, if you ain't chicken, you sure got hen-house ways." I use this film to take me away to the west of the 40's. So much of the tension is displayed in that anything you say or do can get you killed and Harrelson's character does and says as he pleases. In reality of the character of Big Boy, Harrelson portrays behavior so Audie Murphy and clearly alike with Murphy in real life with combat related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Both are bulletproof in their own minds as they still exist.
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Pocket Money
(1972)
Pocket Money is truly Marvin and Newman when they were enjoying acting.
24 January 2006
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Pocket Money is one great film. If you have been to Mexico and understand the people , Pocket Money shows the underbelly of Mexican business dealings and sociological aspects of almost "old west" life. Newmans character is almost HUDDISH. I watch the film over and over. One of my favorite scenes is when Newman and " Leaonard" confront Strother Martin and Stretch Russell in the hotel room and Newman throws the TV out the window. Another memorable scene is when, around the campfire, Marvin toys with some old 38 pistol. Throughout the film with Newman's constant " Now Leonard" line makes them seem so tied together as brothers from different mothers. It reminds me of the relationship between a friend and I in Vietnam in 68; nagging, griping and yet constantly trusting and working together.
Pocket Money is one great film. If you have been to Mexico and understand the people , Pocket Money shows the underbelly of Mexican business dealings and sociological aspects of almost "old west" life. Newmans character is almost HUDDISH. I watch the film over and over. One of my favorite scenes is when Newman and " Leaonard" confront Strother Martin and Stretch Russell in the hotel room and Newman throws the TV out the window. Another memorable scene is when, around the campfire, Marvin toys with some old 38 pistol. Throughout the film with Newman's constant " Now Leonard" line makes them seem so tied together as brothers from different mothers. It reminds me of the relationship between a friend and I in Vietnam in 68; nagging, griping and yet constantly trusting and working together.
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