Dead Man
By Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Published by British Film Institute.
Published 2000.
ISBN-10: 0851708064
ISBN-13: 9780851708065
Description:
“The book follows the narrative and picks out some of the
stand-out cameos as well as some of the choice of dialogue, music, style and
violence within. Just another good choice from the BFI/Palgrave on another
solid film with heavy content.” – Filmwerk.
When it was released in 1995, Dead Man puzzled many
audiences and critics. Jim Jarmusch's reputation was for directing slick, hip
contemporary films. And Dead Man was a black-and-white Western. As time
has passed, though, the number of its admirers has grown rapidly. Indeed, Dead
Man, with its dark and unconventional treatment of violence, racism and
capitalism, may be Jarmusch's finest work to date.
This is Jonathan Rosenbaum's view. For him, Dead
Man is both a quantum leap and a logical next step in Jarmusch's career.
Starring Johnny Depp as the uprooted accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer
as his enigmatic Native American companion, Nobody, and with startling cameos
from Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Iggy Pop, Dead Man is by turns
shocking, comic and deeply moving. This book explores and celebrates a
masterpiece of 1990s American cinema.
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