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Obviously he’s pretty singular, but is there anything else kinda Weir-y like The Mosquito Coast<\/a> & The Year of Living Dangerously<\/a>? \u2014 Charles W.<\/strong><\/p>\n Editor’s Note (12\/4\/14): We no longer answer movie questions through our advice column. We answer them in the mailbag segment of our podcast<\/a>. Send them to Cody@SmugFilm.com<\/a> and we will answer on the show!<\/em><\/p>\n Werner Herzog\u2019s South America cycle\u2014in particular, Fitzcarraldo<\/a>\u2014are kind of the Alpha and Omega for you here. Like Mosquito Coast, Fitzcarraldo follows a monomaniac white man struggling to bring \u201ccivilization\u201d to the deep heart of the Amazon. Where in Mosquito Coast it was ice, here it\u2019s music. I like Mosquito Coast, but it never quite delves deep enough into Harrison Ford\u2019s character\u2019s madness. Here, we\u2019re a party to it, a part of it. The film itself was an expression of madness\u2014be sure to watch the making-of, Burden of Dreams<\/a>, which is just as harrowing and touched by madness.<\/p>\n One of my favorite deep cuts of this genre is Fyodor Otsep\u2019s hard-to-find 1934 film Amok<\/a>. As far as I\u2019m concerned, it wrote the book on that languid jungle vibe. Check out the opening sequence to see what I mean:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xtvUF_XgTgU<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for Dino De Laurentiis\u2019s The Bounty<\/a>, which captures that aggressive young Mel Gibson from Year of Living Dangerously. He was the best in the world in the early \u201880s.<\/p>\n One thing I love about both the movies you mentioned, as well as Weir\u2019s The Last Wave<\/a>, is that inscrutable feeling that some bad, primal thing is coming, even if you don\u2019t quite no when or where. I think John Carpenter\u2019s Prince of Darkness<\/a> and Saul Bass\u2019\u00a0Phase IV<\/a> capture that same paranoia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obviously he’s pretty singular, but is there anything else kinda Weir-y like The Mosquito Coast<\/a> & The Year of Living Dangerously<\/a>? \u2014 Charles W.<\/strong><\/p>\n Editor’s Note (12\/4\/14): We no longer answer movie questions through our advice column. We answer them in the mailbag segment of our podcast<\/a>. Send them to Cody@SmugFilm.com<\/a> and we will answer on the show!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,25],"tags":[635,4324,4322,4325,633,674,4323,1072,95,4327,499,2254,4329,4330,104,185,4320,4326,4328,4319,4321,4318,936],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-allposts","tag-advice-column","tag-amok","tag-burden-of-dreams","tag-dino-de-laurentiis","tag-film-advice","tag-fitzcarraldo","tag-fyodor-otsep","tag-john-carpenter","tag-john-damico","tag-mel-gibson","tag-movie-advice","tag-phase-iv","tag-prince-of-darkness","tag-saul-bass","tag-smug-film-2","tag-smugfilm","tag-sorcerer","tag-the-bounty","tag-the-last-wave","tag-the-mosquito-coast","tag-the-wages-of-fear","tag-the-year-of-living-dangerously","tag-werner-herzog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJohn D’Amico:<\/strong> You\u2019re in luck because Sorcerer just got a Blu-Ray release<\/a>. One of the ultimate responses to everyone who blindly bitches about remakes [Ed. Note: The original,\u00a0The Wages of Fear<\/a>, is also great]\u00a0Sorcerer is the grim, almost unbearably tense story of truck drivers transporting nitroglycerin across the treacherous roads of South America. That great storm sequence in Mosquito Coast finds its match in the signature sequence of Sorcerer, as they try and get their truck over a rope bridge in slashing rain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n