lundi, juin 19, 2006

OKCorral4

Going to the cinema to see OK Corral wasn't a waste of time and money. First, because we saw the cactus hills you briefly see in the movie 2 weeks ago. In the Saguaro park near Tucson, we met a famous cactus who played a scene with Kirk and Burt; he introduced us to the stunt cactus that you can see in this image. Cactus have always behaved like the very professional actors they are; I regret that they are underused now...

The role played by Kirk's cleft chin in the film is extraordinary; you only understand at the very end that the guns were hidden in the depth of it. You can't figure it out since you have this white horses herd drinking around the shadowy cleft, which is also a pond.

You have the very young Dennis Hopper playing the role of Billy. While being dead, Hopper is moving 2 times his eyelids, due to very small noises. He is a very bad actor; the first thing that you learn as an actor is to not move your eyelids when you're dead. Even the children know that. Hopefully, he did extraordinary films as a director such as "Out of the blue", that I saw at the Etrange Festival in Paris, thanks to Asia Argento's choice...

After our cover version of Woodie Guthrie's "This land is your land" that we sang in New York with Florence, a cover that everybody seemed to enjoy (and that the amazing Fashion Flesh will produce during the summer), I would love to do the OK Corral song, which is very complicate. The legend says that OK comes from the civil war, it meaned zero killed; zero killed in a war day was a good day. In a time of peace, the real shooting at Zero Killed Corral is an extraordinary clin d'oeil à l'histoire.