The Man Who Would Be King Review
Jeudi, mai 6th, 2010
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He began with ‘The Maltese Falcon’ which one must admit is not too unpleasant for a first film, don’t you consider?
Then for years he wanted to bring this adventure epic by Kipling to the mask. How many years? Well, originally he had Bogie and Gable in mind for the leads, you do the math.
Fortunately for us, he eventually got the green light for his project.
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He then found Peachy and Danny in Michael Caine and Sean Connery, movie stars who are also substantial actors– of which there ain’t many, folks—and who are perfectly cast in the roles.
Moreover, Caine and Connery had been friends for a long time and this undoubtedly helped bring to life the camaraderie between the misfit heroes.
It is the gradual 19th century and Danny and Peachy, formerly sergeants in Her Majesty’s Army, catch themselves stranded and penniless in India. Their ungrateful country has no further exhaust for them, although their officers once called them heroes “We fought our procedure up the pass yard by bloody yard.”
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Now, bureocrats are running the indicate “with long skinny noses for looking down on you” and Danny and Peachy are considered ‘undesirables’.
So they are faced with three choices: Go benefit to England and lift jobs as a porters or something equally lower class and menial, pause in India and continue to live more or less as petty criminals, or. . .
Well, let’s not give the spot away. Suffice it to say that when a reasonable Kipling (wonderfully played by Christopher Plummer) tries to dissuade them from their insane map, on the grounds that the odds against them are truly suicidal, Peachy dismisses his concerns with “Well, if a Greek can do it, two Englishman certainly can!”
–The Greek in expect being Alexander the Great–
And yes, women as well as men will appreciate this gargantuan film. It’s a not a “buddy movie”, it’s a classic.
Thank you, John Huston.
This is, of course, a titanic film, with every aspect of what makes a vast film fully exploited. But I did spy something unusual on the DVD - there is an entire scene missing. After Sean Connery falls from the bridge, instead of the process shot that shows him falling in slow-motion and the crown falling from his head (which is in every version of the film I’ve ever seen) the scene dissolves to Christopher Plummer listening to the final words of Michael Caine’s narration. What happened to the scene?? Why would it have been removed?? My only other quibble about the DVD is that the sound is not very chubby. It is an early release DVD so in subsequent releases they might address that pronounce, but Assign Help THE MISSING SCENE!
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