DEAD MAN
Synopsis:
.Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named "Nobody" (Gary Farmer), who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help, leads Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously unknown world that exists on the other side.
Awards:
European Film Awards: Screen International Award for Best non-European Film - European Film Academy 1996
All movies from: Retrospective of Greatness |
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| Duration:120’ |
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| Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Mili Avital, Iggy Pop, Jared Harris, Billy Bob Thornton, Crispin Glover, Eugene Byrd, Michelle Thrush Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum |
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| Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch |
| Producer: Demetra J. MacBride |
| Photography: Robby Müller |
| Editing: Jay Rabinowitz |
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| 35mm, black-and-white |
| Production: Pandora Films | JVC Entertainment Networks | 12-Gauge Productions | Newmarket Capital Group |
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| http://www.nytrash.com/deadman |
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