L'assassinio di Jesse James per mano del codardo Robert Ford
Robert Ford, che nutre una profonda ammirazione per Jesse James sin da quando era bambino, cerca con tutte le sue forze di entrare a far parte della gang del fuorilegge del Missouri, ma dive... Leggi tuttoRobert Ford, che nutre una profonda ammirazione per Jesse James sin da quando era bambino, cerca con tutte le sue forze di entrare a far parte della gang del fuorilegge del Missouri, ma diventa sempre più amareggiato nei confronti del bandito.Robert Ford, che nutre una profonda ammirazione per Jesse James sin da quando era bambino, cerca con tutte le sue forze di entrare a far parte della gang del fuorilegge del Missouri, ma diventa sempre più amareggiato nei confronti del bandito.
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- 25 vittorie e 69 candidature totali
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- Danish Train Passenger
- (as Torben S. Hansen)
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- QuizCinematographer Roger Deakins has called the arrival of the train in darkness as one of the high points of his career.
- BlooperJesse James uses the term "gunslinger" but this term didn't come into use until at least the 1920's. Terms for outlaw gunmen appropriate for the time would have been gunman, pistoleer, shootist, or even gunfighter.
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Narrator: He was ashamed of his persiflage, his boasting, his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness; he was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case- that he truly regretted killing Jesse, that he missed the man as much as anybody and wished his murder hadn't been necessary. Even as he circulated his saloon he knew that the smiles disappeared when he passed by. He received so many menacing letters that he could read them without any reaction except curiosity. He kept to his apartment all day, flipping over playing cards, looking at his destiny in every King and Jack. Edward O'Kelly came up from Bachelor at one P.M. on the 8th. He had no grand scheme. No strategy. No agreement with higher authorities. Nothing but a vague longing for glory, and a generalized wish for revenge against Robert Ford. Edward O'Kelly would be ordered to serve a life sentence in the Colorado Penitentiary for second degree murder. Over seven thousand signatures would eventually be gathered in a petition asking for O'Kelly's release, and in 1902, Governor James B. Ullman would pardon the man. There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream, but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling, the light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words.
- Curiosità sui creditiThe film does not contain either an opening title nor intro credits. The film title is displayed first after the final fadeout.
The film tells the story of the James Gang and specifically the fatal relationship of Jesse James and Robert Ford. During the course of the action we see darkness and light in everyone, even the "coward." Care is taken to finely pare into the psyches of these Outlaws and the cold world they walk in. I think I saw just about every emotion there is to have in these men and we can almost understand, even if we can't accept, what moves them in their deadly paths.
Pitt is both iconic and vulnerable - beautiful and frightening as Jesse James, a robber and killer who hoists up a reputation of fearless boss on one shoulder and charming folk hero on another. His character's movement through peril and praise reminds one of the great gangster characters from Scorsese's work, with an added rawness that only Pitt and a few others can genuinely summon. His fatalism is also quite entrancing and subtly masterful.
Affleck is truly mesmerizing as a born misfit who is so uncomfortable in this world around him, that his neuroses, if they can be called that, really get into your skin. I was reminded of Joaquin Phoenix's role as Comodus, but it's even more intense and yet so very believable. As the audience, I was torn between pitying the character, being utterly disappointed in him, and just wanting him to somehow be better. And the script's maturity really comes into play with this character. No one is beyond reproach, understanding, or grim fate.
I'd say that's the main theme here: fate.
There's no easy formula. No one simply "gets what's coming to them." There are no simple villains or heroes. There's just life and the actions taken and the echoes of those actions and eventually, an end. It transcends any petty ideas of justice or even legend. It takes a full snapshot of a beautiful and grim reality and lets us just take it in, like a corpse on ice. Profound by presentation alone.
- featheredsun
- 10 nov 2011
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- Budget
- 30.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 3.909.149 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 147.812 USD
- 23 set 2007
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- 15.003.764 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 40 minuti
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- 2.39 : 1