The Stunt Man (1980)
Directed by Richard Rush
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
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The reality vs. fantasy element has been done before in films within films, most notably in the Oscar nominated 1980 film, The Stunt Man, although this anime takes the theme and runs with it for all its worth.
All of these improbable characters entertain, but seem kind of motley…until you work your way backwards from McDonagh's spectacularly fanciful ending, which reveals them all to be cogs in a clockwork mechanism (which recalls, among other things, the denouement of the cult classic The Stunt Man).
Some might find certain sections overly long – it’s Tarantino, they always are – but the difference this time round is that these scenes add texture rather dialogue (we see an awful lot of Dalton’s episode of Lancer, which Tarantino presents as its own reality, rather like Richard Rush’s 1980 cult classic The Stunt Man).
If you like this, try: "The Stunt Man" and "Zoolander"…
Do you think it is ever appropriate for an actor to play a character of another race?If you like this, try: “The Stunt Man” and “Zoolander”…
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, The Stunt Man, Cinema Paradiso, both films are unavoidably Italian in perspective and both feature a somewhat addled film director who is awash in the vagaries of memory.