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The Quick and the Dead (1987 film)

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Williams introduces some of these characters past the halfway mark of the book, when I was just getting warmed up to the existing slate. When he moves there he has to save his family from a gang of outlaws. It simply mirrors an America full of fast-food chains and tchotchkas, addicted to television and oblivious to death. Like, all of the characters, every single last one of them, speak as if they are in a novel where everyone speaks like they are in a novel. They are in an unforgiving painting that some dude copied off another dude on tv and planted on a cheap hotel wall in some dead end town a cul de sac, even worse.

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Plot exposition seems like a waste of time here, though: what makes this book so great is how funny it is, and its trenchant, subtle intelligence. Put it in the box, or put it in the basket. Yet L'Amour develops this tension artfully, and tastefully, and the hero remains a gentleman if that word quite applies here and the heroine, a lady. Ellen emerges from the smoke and flames, having faked her death with the help of Cort, Doc Wallace, and a bottle of red ink procured from the Blind Boy and having used The Kid's stash of dynamite. Maybe it's just an Indian curse, since Indian things are scattered in the book as local color; but they are treated as a con, or crazy, misguided, delusional etc. Locations included in Arizona and Mescal, 40 miles southeast of Tucson. During all of this they meet up with the main character Con Vallian.

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The word has largely died out now, although we still retain the meaning in words like 'quicksand', that is, sand that moves and has 'life', or the bubbling and gurgling 'quicklime'. Stephen took a stand for what he believed, and he was stoned to death by an angry crowd. That doesn't deter my vision. Nothing was really explained or fully developed. Louis L'Amour was an American author. On the surface, Sharon Stone makes for a strong, fierce, almost believable female gunslinger, while Gene Hackman offers up a captivating embodiment of a straight-up dastardly villain.

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A strong female is always a pleasant addition to westerns. Her first collection of short stories was Taking Care, published in 1982. Annabel has recently lost her mother in a car crash, and her father the focus of the book's wittiest and most merciless scenes is haunted by his late wife's ghost, who takes pleasure in running him down and ridiculing his budding romance with his gardener, Donald. As preposterous as the plot was, there was never a line of Hackman dialoguethat didn't sound as if he believed it. In passing thru a small spot in the road the toughies there decide that they must have something valuable in that wagon, and they set out in pursuit. For such a short book, Louis L'Amour manages to pack in plenty of punch. Lady, you're an idiot to worry about him one minute, then yell at him for doing something he knows better than you when he shows back up.

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The way that death hovers in the margins of this book when it's not in the lines themselves-- it's that preoccupation that makes this novel equally difficult and rewarding. As a result, Stone decided to pay for the actor's salary herself. Duncan and Susanna McKaskel, with their son Tom are greenhorns, moving out West to farm and tired of City life. Stone plays a solemn, weathered drifter coloquially referred to as The Lady, who's seen ruthlessly abandoning someone chained to a wagon at the beginning of The Quick and the Dead. It's a classic, has the legendary good verse evil theme, that the Western genre is known for and it's readers crave. Two in a row is tough. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

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The rules are simple: The last manalive wins a big cash prize. Oh this is really good, like Lorrie Moore with a satanic streak or Ferrante if she'd been raised in an American desert. Read this and you will recognize that we are all a little off. This seemed and appropriate way to take up the gauntlet. Yeah, dialogue is often stilted and the character of Con Vallian sometimes comes off as a deus ex machina kind of guardian angel. It's about big time stuff like being dead, too.

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Duncan McKaskel is an educated man, attempting to move his wife, Susanna, and his son, Tom, along with all of their personal possessions, from the east, to the west side of America in search of a new and promising life. Is he a blessing or threat, would remain a mystery for Duncan. You're six miles from home. The Lady is found at a nearby cemetery by Doc Wallace, who tells her that he recognizes her and knows why she is there. I read this for the local library's reading challenge, one item of which was to read a book in a genre that was new to you. When he moves there he has to save his family from a gang of outlaws. This book has some heart and a certain vague purity but there's something off in the tone and something way off in its impact.

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And, more important, how did she feel about him? The first English citation of the phrase is consequently from the 1385 Wycliffe Bible: And thei schulen yyue resoun to hym, that is redi to deme the quyke and the deed. But at times it read like short stories sewn loosely into the larger text. As they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threat—the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within. So it is messy and you step out of it a lot for people to say big time stuff. This is a fantastic 4K image. Williams can write as pretty as about any author I can think of. They should not be dissuaded by their teacher's discomfort; to discomfort teachers was one's duty.

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The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc. There are plenty of gun fights and violence and language in the film to deserve its R rating. Eager to remedy this deficiency, who am I to think myself broadly-read otherwise? It was restored for the home cinema releases of the film. Things pop up when reading Joy Williams: snippets of philosophy and little primers on suicide, animal husbandry, medical conditions, botany. He ends up teaching them skills to survive in the harsh land of the West, to escape a hornet's nest they stumble in a ram shack town.

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In other words, what are you willing to pay the price for? The central characters are a trio of teenage girls Alice, Annabel, and Corvus , all three of them motherless and two of them parentless altogether. These lines each shine the action too, not just the dialogue like perfect fragments pithily conveying the absurdity of life and the moments that define it. We've got a group of baddies, a desperate young lady, and our hero who is really good with a six-shooter. This could have irritated the fuck out of me. A second collection, Escapes, followed in 1990. The book begins and ends with Alice, a teenager who is against environmental destruction while simultaneously appearing to not care about anything.