{"id":30191,"date":"2022-07-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30191"},"modified":"2022-07-12T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:30:36","slug":"dead-man-1995-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30191","title":{"rendered":"Dead Man (1995) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071422zview_deadman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"715\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dead Man <\/strong><\/em>(1995)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jim Jarmusch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 <strong>Jim Jarmusch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Mili Avital\u00a0 <\/strong>and <strong>Billy Bob Thornton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 Sometimes it is preferable not to travel with a dead man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">William Blake (Depp), a mild-mannered accountant, travels by train to a small town on the edge of the frontier.\u00a0 There he meets a prostitute named Thel (Avital) who takes him home.\u00a0 The next morning Thel&#8217;s ex-boyfriend, Charlie (Byrne) confronts Blake and Thel while they&#8217;re still in bed.\u00a0 Charlie shoots at Blake.\u00a0 The bullet hits (and kills) Thel and then strikes Blake in the chest when the bullet passes through her.\u00a0 Blake picks up Thel&#8217;s gun and kills Charlie.\u00a0 Blake then hightails it out of town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although he escaped into the wilderness, Blake&#8217;s chest wound is serious.\u00a0 He passes out.\u00a0 When he comes to he is surprised to find a huge Native American named Nobody (Farmer) standing over him.\u00a0 Nobody says that the bullet is too close to his heart to be removed.\u00a0 Blake is a walking dead man.\u00a0 Nobody says he will help Blake prepare for his journey back to the spiritual world.\u00a0 Along the way Blake has run-ins with many unusual characters including the three notorious killers hired by Charlie&#8217;s dad (Mitchum) to avenge his son&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim Jarmusch brought together an all-star cast to tell a strange, almost mesmerizing tale,\u00a0 <em>Dead Man<\/em> was shot in black and white, with fadeouts after each scene enhanced by an improvised Neil Young soundtrack.\u00a0 Truth be told, I started to watch <em>Dead Man<\/em> years ago and couldn&#8217;t get into it.\u00a0 This time, I loved every minute.\u00a0 <em>Dead Man<\/em> earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071422zview_deadman2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Man (1995) Director:\u00a0 Jim Jarmusch Screenplay by:\u00a0 Jim Jarmusch Starring:\u00a0 Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, 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