Always looking for odd take on cinema, the LAMB Community chose as it’s Western Genre movie for March, a non-western western. What may be called a kimchi western, since it comes from Korean Director Kim Jee-woon and features a setting in Manchuria in the 1930s as opposed to the American west after the civil war. Don’t worry, there is still a wartime background, just as there was in the Sergio Leone film that inspired this, but it is certainly different.
Howard Casner championed the film, after mentioning it on a past show and having some other Lambs endorse the film. This movie is an action-comedy rather than a straight horse opera, with wild stunts, slapstick action and lots of violence. The three LAMBs on the show enthusiastically embrace the genre mash up and spend time talking about the set pieces, the Korean actors, and the contrasts to Leone’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”.
Introduction
General Thoughts 3:15
The Set Pieces 11:30
Contrast to Leone Masterpiece 24:13
The Endings/Alternatives 36:00
Exit Question 50:00
Howard Rantings and Ravings Forgotten Filmcast
Matthew Northern Reel
Richard KAMAD
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I appreciate the real-life examples you added. They made it relatable.
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Great pick for the Western month — Kim Jee-woon really understood that you don’t have to be reverential to Leone to pay homage to him. The Manchuria setting gives the whole thing a freshness that most Western tributes lack, and Song Kang-ho absolutely steals the show as The Weird. That final three-way chase sequence is one of the most purely entertaining stretches of action cinema from the last two decades. Would love to see more non-American Westerns get this kind of spotlight on the show.