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Sorcerer (1977)

Adventure | 121 minutes
3,80 343 votes

Genre: Adventure / Thriller

Duration: 121 minuten

Alternative title: Wages of Fear

Country: United States

Directed by: William Friedkin

Stars: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer and Francisco Rabal

IMDb score: 7,7 (34.651)

Releasedate: 24 June 1977

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Sorcerer plot

"The only wages worth running for, dying for, killing for, are the wages of fear"

When a fire breaks out at a remote oil derrick, a group of outcasts gets the chance to earn enough money to escape their poverty-stricken existence. This is due to a dangerous job, in which they have to transport two crates of unstable dynamite through kilometers of jungle, in old trucks. Remake of the French film "Le Salaire de la Peur" (1953).

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Wouter

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The only reason I hesitate to go to the full swat is because I don't think the final is on the same level as the rest. Until the film gets slightly surreal, the film is genius, a real masterpiece and even better than the original, but I would have liked Friedkin to have been more confident and to have left it more straight. It didn't have to be so hallucinatory (to use a Flemish word for once). The main character didn't have to be that bad. With a more sober style, the film might have made it to my top list; I like the rest so much. The ending isn't bad either (the ideas are even fine), but the rest is just even better.

The DCP (the digital print for the bios) was a bit too much enhanced, in terms of sharpness.

Maybe I'll go to the full five stars in the future.

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cinemanukerke

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first of all a bit of history : thanks to the success of the french connection and the exorcist, Friedkin was able to realize an ambitious project. Feeling like God, Friedkin went to the jungles of the Dominican Republic and engaged in a frenzied battle with the elements of nature. Half of the crew was out of action due to malaria or food poisoning and there were internal conflicts because Friedkin (he wasn't called Hurricane Billy on set for nothing) had an explosive nature. But from the ashes of that chaos rose an epic film (after that, Coppola and Herzog did Apocalyps now and Fitzcarraldo, respectively) that contains scenes that are both genius and insane. Those enchanting ghost scenes on the bridge, in the jungle, in the rain. Those documentary set ups like when they bring the dead back to a village after the blast. Those close-ups of creaking bridges, fraying ropes, wheels that just don't rumble off the narrow road ... what a thrill. Then you have that doom that hangs over the story. That chilling blue glow in the footage when Schneider almost goes mad and then stumbles toward a burning oil well (hell?). What a viewing experience! The score of Tangerine dream (used sparingly by the way) is perfect as a soundtrack to that ride to fate. Of course the film is not perfect, the erratic shoot certainly leaves its mark because what is this about, what did Friedkin want to say with that film? Not clear, but the flap of the 40 th anniversary Blu Ray edition reads: it is not about their survival but what the men becoming after the adventure. Well, I see a bit of humanity just before their fate but I don't think it really worked out. Nevertheless , I would like to conclude as follows : what a movie !

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Fisico

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Here too, it comes full circle with my latest top250 film. The remake of Le salaire de la peur from 1953. It is remarkable that both films are in the top 250. Both here and in the original version, it takes a while to get going. The best parts are the truck scenes. Too skinny for a good movie? Not quite. Not when scenes stand out so much that they are almost legendary. The tension is really cut.

Friedkin actually does little wrong and retains the rock-solid elements of the film from 1953. The question that can of course be asked, here and with every remake, is often what added value this offers. I found the first part less interesting, from the jungle it only goes crescendo.

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