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Genre | Drama, Action & Adventure |
Format | NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Widescreen, Anamorphic |
Contributor | Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, Deborah Baxter, John Milius, Simon Harrison, Jack Cooley, John Huston, Vladek Sheybal, Brian Keith, Herb Jaffe, Phil Rawlins, Roy Jenson, Polly Gottesmann, Chris Aller, Nadim Sawalha, Sean Connery, Candice Bergen See more |
Initial release date | 2005-02-08 |
Language | English, French |
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Wind and the Lion, The (DVD) Academy Award winner Sean Connery stars with Candice Bergen in this swashbuckling epic of an unstoppable desert fighter who collides with an immovable American woman--The Wind and the Lion. Morocco, 1904. A corrupt sultan has granted German troops control over the land, and Raisuli, the last of the Barbary pirates, leads the fight against the occupation. Now, in a plot to force American President Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith) to remove the sultan from his throne, Raisuli (Connery) kidnaps American widow Eden Pedecaris (Bergen) and her two children. But when this iron-willed pirate meets an equally iron-willed American woman, she reveals a whole new world of possibility to a man who can kill one moment and pray the next. And in the end, it is Pedecaris who leads the Americans to rescue the man who was once her captor, but who has become her friend.
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The up-and-down career of director John Milius had no finer moment than The Wind and the Lion, a dandy adventure tale. It's based on fact: An American (played by Candice Bergen) and her two children were kidnapped in 1904 Morocco by a Berber tribe, an international incident settled by President Theodore Roosevelt's "big stick" military muscle. The film's sweep and swagger are unabashedly old-fashioned, even as Milius occasionally pokes fun at the grand characters. Some of the peripheral material is sloppy, but as long as Milius keeps his sights locked on the two powerful protagonists, he's dead-on: Brian Keith makes a gutsy Roosevelt, and Sean Connery is in splendid form (with Scots accent in place--got a problem with that?) as the dashing Berber chieftain. Perhaps overshadowed by John Huston's The Man Who Would be King the same year (Huston plays advisor John Hay in this one), Wind makes a marvelous companion piece. --Robert Horton
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : 65622
- Director : John Milius
- Media Format : NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Widescreen, Anamorphic
- Run time : 1 hour and 59 minutes
- Release date : February 8, 2005
- Actors : Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, John Huston, Brian Keith, Geoffrey Lewis
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Producers : Herb Jaffe, Phil Rawlins
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B0000EYUCK
- Writers : John Milius
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,045 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #611 in Action & Adventure DVDs
- #840 in Drama DVDs
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Times change and times stay the same ... when I saw this on its initial release, Arabs/Muslims were definitely the Bad Guys (it was the mid-Seventies, the Israelis and their neighbors were coming off another war, there were lines for gasoline, and rampant inflation caused by skyrocketing oil prices was wrecking the world's economy) but the post-Vietnam mood in the US was very much against all manifestations of foreign military intervention. This film was discordantly out of place in the prevailing attitudes. Then things cooled off, the Middle East didn't seem to be as threatening after awhile, and America began to start sending soldiers abroad again (carefully, against enemies who couldn't really fight back). Now, in the last decade, we've come full circle in many ways. Once more the Islamic world is a bogeyman and "robust", even pre-emptive, military intervention is an official doctrine of the Bush II crowd. This film ought to be wildly popular now -- for all the wrong reasons.
Milius is an unapologetic but conflicted imperialist, as he ruefully but honestly notes in his commentary track. On the one hand, he glories in naked American power (personified in this movie in the figure of the bearish Teddy Roosevelt, played masterfully by Brian Keith), but on the other, he recognizes that it is el Raisuli (Sean Connery) and his Moroccan bandits/jihadists whjo are the true heroes of the story, fighting patriotically to rid their country of foreign invaders. While Milius never resolves this conflict within himself, it does enable him to portray both sides honestly and respectfully, and even see the humor in the opposing attitudes: it is sometimes not clear if the hawkish American diplomats and soldiers, soberly toasting "World War", are meant to be buffoons or are in deadly earnest, the humor is so dry and the acting so sincere. A little of both, in all likelihood, just like Roosevelt, who is whimsically shown in constant physical activity while pursuing a shrewd, if belligerent, approach to foreign affairs.
Connery's Raisuli (based on a real figure) makes a marvelous freedom fighter. He's proud, passionate, fearless, and incorruptible, which is why he's probably doomed in the end, as the film's coda implies. His feelings toward his captive (Candice Bergen's Eden Pedecaris) grow into an abiding but chaste love (which is reciprocated), a subplot that hearkens to the grand old romantic adventure movies of old but that is never allowed by Milus to distract from the central storyline of action and intrigue. Some people seem to think that "Big Tam's" alleged Scottish accent is intrusive -- I do not hear this myself; to my ears Connery makes a very convincing Muslim, and besides, I have read on good authority that Arabic-speakers are the world's best imitators of the Scottish accent, so the casting makes a curious sort of sense.
TW&TL is full of movement and sweeping panoramas, with the Spanish locations subbing for Morocco used to good effect. The cinematography is superb, and truly shines in this widescreen release, and it is accompanied by one of Jerry Goldsmith's most stirring and evocative soundtracks. Milius' dialogue is economical and never too anachronistic (always a problem in most period movies); he creates believable larger-than-life characters and leavens the swashbuckling with deft humorous touches. Viewers will come away with many favorite lines that will enter their everyday conversation (e.g., "Real men prefer to fight with swords, so they can see each other's eyes," "You like-y speech-y?", "Why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality", "It goes double for Berbers", "The ease of others is not the concern of the Sultan", and "You've made this fine specimen of a grizzly look like a hairy cow").
It's all a tremendous spectacle, full of dash and glory, from the last few "innocent" years before the vaunting anthems of the European powers were muted by the mud of trench warfare and imperialism lost its attraction to a war-weary Old World. (Whether America will follow in its footsteps remains an open question.) Milius, a devotee of Kurosawa and a keen student of the military arts, directs some of the finest combat sequences ever to grace the screen. Bergen is surprisingly effective (it's hard to imagine Faye Dunaway in this role, as the commentary suggests nearly happened), the support players render sterling service, and there's even an unexpected touch of poetry at the end. Stand-out cinema entertainment that leaves you thinking, laughing, and applauding at the same time.
This is one of the gold standards for all films. Films like this are far and few between these days. Today it's all flash and no substance. Today it's all about pornographic violence with sensationalism and no context. Today it's all about dealing with psychological states, and not about addressing values of right and wrong. Today films like this simply aren't made anymore.
And it's a shame.
But, to the film. We're talking derring-do, dashing heroics, international conflict and maneuvering. This movie is about when men stood up like men for ideals that men cherished, and to get the woman at the end in a deep and profound way.
From my namesake, Raisuli the Magnificent played by the superior Sean Connery, to the brilliant performances by Candice Bergman, Brian Keith, and John Huston and others. Incredible old fashioned studio film making. The story, the acting, the production values on all levels.
There is no hip-hop soundtrack. There is no exaggerated CGI or other phony looking SFX (save one matte painting of the Atlantic Squadron during the beginning of the ever-famed marine sequence).
I wanted to see this film when I was young, but, for whatever reason, I couldn't when it hit the theatres. I wanted to see it badly, but was steered away from it by narrow minded ivory towered left wing jerks who were friends of my parents, thinking that the political message was probably bad for young minds.
This film is about a man's quest and mission to roar in defiance in the face of overwhelming and uncontrollable forces. "The sand stings my eyes...", hence the title.
There's some deep messages here, but they're pretty basic and plain. Not overwrought like other movies. Not overworked. Not overplayed. This is man at his basic best. You fight for what's right, regardless of the odds. You use cunning and guile when appropriate, but in the end you must face the opposition, and fight to your upmost.
The huge number of cavalry scenes, the beautiful and heart felt montages, the detail to scenery, the panoramic views of vast wastelands that are the lands of the Berbers, the piratical desert nomands who rule the desert. Opposing Raisuli's domain are the European Imperial powers, who are in turn opposed by the upstart nation The United States of America.
John Milius, one of the great film makers of all time, has made a magnificent film. There is no cinematic trickery here. This is magnificent studio film making at its finest. Even today when the west is in dire contention with the fundamentalist Islamists, this film shows the scum of Islam who kill woman and children how their leaders of old behaved.
As another reviewer stated here and elsewhere, Raisuli would not have allowed today's barbarous acts of terrorism. He would have slain those people himself before they could initiate their plan.
For all that, it is a warped truth of what really happened with the Pedicaris affair, as many have pointed out. Even so, it is a magnificent film.
Enjoy it for all that it is.
This is a movie with two sub-plots.
1) The unrequited love between the characters played by Sean Connery and Candice Bergen. The verbal sparing between them is fun; Bergen's character is no shrinking violet, and is a strong-willed, clever, and valiant woman. The sexual tension by the end of the movie is obvious, but both characters realize that their destinies take them apart.
Sean Connery looks like a Berber chieftain and, even though his Scottish brogue is incongruous, he radiates authority.
2) The political challenge for President Roosevelt to get the kidnapped woman back from the Arabs. Brian Keith does a great job of portraying Theodore Roosevelt. The back-and-forth between his character and that of Sean Connery through messages is well-done, even though they never meet.
My complaint about this particular DVD is that the letterbox format shrinks the picture too much. With my widescreen TV, only about 66% of the available width was used.
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Gunboat Diplomacy concerning the abduction of an American upper class woman and her lovely kids, by a gallant Berber chieftain who is a figure out of the Arabian Nights. In reality, as the late American historian Barbara Tuchman pointed out, the historical victim of the real abduction was a naturalized Greco-American--a Mr. Petticarus--not a glamourous , young blonde woman with precocious children.
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