Seriously, I know it was the sixties, but people must have been on some pretty crazy stuff to think this captured a good movie... I laughed because its so bad.
shareWell, as someone else commented...Meyer obviously "wanted to get some butts in the theatres"....and succeeded !
shareNothing, really.
The 5 minutes introduction is, and probably will remain, great cinematography as well as the encapsulation of «the taming of the old wild west» that many directors spent hours, and millions of dollars, to describe; it is a lesson of economy to all would-be directors, even today.
The 3 minutes following that (with the character of Snick, the «old boozer») is very funny, too, but presently you, as a spectator, do not have the patience to sit through in a theatre, and listen to what you're being told. By now you wanted to have seen at least a couple of murders, and three rapes. And the top of the narration is that «This town was so bad that we was ashamed to name it.» So, you'll have to make the effort to figure by yourself what were all those bad things about.
As you're just trying (hard) to imagine it - you're blasted in the eye with all things mean... in a parodic way, to such a point that one big breasted woman (with the ridiculous, but mandatory by law, pasties applied to the exotic dancers' nipples) has a second pair hanging from the first by a thin cord, when the top pair falls due to her, ha-ham, excitement.
The gun fight and the subsequent fist fight that actually cross through the entire film to the very end scene - when everybody is regenerated into godly manners, by a Stranger who happens to be extremely fond of his she-mule, and his the only man who refuses having sex with the Saloon Girls.
Spectators in 1962 were attentive to Russ Meyer's sarcastic comments on political, social, and religious issues as much as they were wanting to oggle the same big breasted women he always got into his films.
But I'm just too old to understand your own viwpoint, eventually formed from the appreciation of films of the Matrix era.
It's silly stupid and not a great movie but I really enjoyed this one and will totally watch it again some time.
shareJust watched it again this morning. I liked it. The ending scene surprisingly has Bergmanesque (Dali-esque?) surreal elements. And oh Julie Williams' breasts!!
Asa total aside, I am amazed at the fight scenes. Two-guys standing flat-footed two-feet apart cold-cocking each other. It really looks like they're getting hit! I have seen fight scenes where you can see the "no hit" technique transparently, but not here.