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Sorcerer
1977 · Film · 122 min
Directed by William Friedkin
Four men from different countries flee to an impoverished South American village, Povernir, to hide from their pasts. When an oil well explodes, chaos and barbarism roam the streets. Desperate to leave, they agree to risk their lives to transport several crates of nitroglycerin across treacherous jungle terrain.
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A common source of error is in articles for movies where it gives plot summaries. The plot summaries are very often written by people who didn't watch the movie but are trying to re-resemble the plot like a jigsaw puzzle from little bits they glean from written reviews, or worse just writing down whatever they assume to be the plot. Very often it seems like the fuck ups came from people who either weren't watching the movie carefully, or were just listening to the dialogue while not watching the screen, or simply lacked media literacy.
Example [SPOILERS]: the page for the movie Sorcerer claims that rough terrain caused a tire to pop. The movie never says that, the movie shows the tire popping (which results in the trucks cargo detonating). The next scene reveals the cause, but only to those paying attention; the bloody corpse of a bandito laying next to a submachine gun is shown in the rubble beside the road, and more banditos are there, very upset and quite nervous, to hijack the second truck. The obvious inference is that the first truck's tire was shot by the bandit to hijack/rob the truck. The tire didn't pop from rough terrain, the movie never says it did, it's just a conclusion you could get from not paying attention to the movie.
For lighter viewing there is Sorcerer (1977) [0] with Roy Scheider.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film)
Sorcerer is an incredible film that very few know about for a handful of reasons as discussed in the article.
Beautiful cinematography, excellent soundtrack, suspenseful premise. You will never forget the bridge scene.
Highly highly recommend
Also remade as a pretty good movie in 1977 -- Sorcerer. Had a great soundtrack by Tangerine Dream as well.
Sorcerer (1977) directed by William Friedkin (known for The Exorcist and The French Connection) is adapted from the same novel and is also great.
If you are talking about W. Friedkin’s Sorcerer I suggest also to watch the original movie it’s a remake of: « Le Salaire de la Peur » by H.G. Clouzot
I was just recently watching a movie from the '70s, and couldn't figure out why specifically the fire looked so amazing. It was called Sorcerer. Turns out, they actually blew up a bunch of stuff, including a stuntman.
I highly recommend people watch the film and then read about it's production after, as I did.
That's what he told me. He also said that he didn't keep it in an ice bath, which, I guess, you're supposed to do.
William Friedkin used the instability of nitro as the basis for his movie Sorcerer[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film)
> Explosives can be like mayonnaise, they can separate after a while, forming sensitive mixtures, making the 'inert' mine suddenly dangerous again.
In the 1970s, there was a Friedkin movie, that used this as a plot point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film)
In this age of remakes, this calls for a movie about the dangerous overland trip taken to deliver coffee through the Darien Gap, in the style of Sorcerer (1977): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/ (which is already a third remake or so.)
Typographically, see also the Lucasfilm logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhO_YjAJq_w
I'm not really getting the excitement. I remember this look from the 80s and it's... a look I remember from the 80s.
The music is half Carpenter and half late 1970s Tangerine Dream with more oscillator detuning than usual - e.g. the score TD did for a William Friedkin movie called Sorcerer.
"Cant believe some of these toy unboxing videos have +70 million views, insane"
My son watched the same skylanders unboxing every day for ... weeks? It adds up.
Kids viewing habits are not like adults. I saw the movie "sorcerer" (a tolerably good movie from the 70s, although its timeless) and its pretty cool but I'm probably not watching it again until my next reincarnation. Kids will watch the same thing over and over.