I have another little bit of related trivia (and cause for regret)...right after "Last Tango" (and as he was getting ready for "1900"), Bertolucci was desperate to make his own version of Hammett's great "Red Harvest" (which had already supplied the plot for "Yojimbo"). remember that Hammett had been a party member who actua…
I have another little bit of related trivia (and cause for regret)...right after "Last Tango" (and as he was getting ready for "1900"), Bertolucci was desperate to make his own version of Hammett's great "Red Harvest" (which had already supplied the plot for "Yojimbo"). remember that Hammett had been a party member who actually did some jail time--in very bad health--for defying HUAC. with the fabulous personnel Bertolucci was using at that time (nobody EVER made more gorgeous-looking movies...Storaro had actually written a fucking TREATISE on the psychology of color), it would have been something wonderful.
speaking of Storaro, he was such an acknowledged master of lighting by the time he shot "The Conformist" that I assumed he'd been a DP for decades, when it turns out he's less than ten years older than I am and he'd done "The Conformist" when he was about thirty...the mysteries of genius remain mysterious.
ahhhhh LUCKY!
I have another little bit of related trivia (and cause for regret)...right after "Last Tango" (and as he was getting ready for "1900"), Bertolucci was desperate to make his own version of Hammett's great "Red Harvest" (which had already supplied the plot for "Yojimbo"). remember that Hammett had been a party member who actually did some jail time--in very bad health--for defying HUAC. with the fabulous personnel Bertolucci was using at that time (nobody EVER made more gorgeous-looking movies...Storaro had actually written a fucking TREATISE on the psychology of color), it would have been something wonderful.
speaking of Storaro, he was such an acknowledged master of lighting by the time he shot "The Conformist" that I assumed he'd been a DP for decades, when it turns out he's less than ten years older than I am and he'd done "The Conformist" when he was about thirty...the mysteries of genius remain mysterious.
oh well...
That could have been fantastic. "The Continental Op" - the man with no name.
What I don’t know is mind boggling. Thank you always.
the fat man with no name.