Directed and written by: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer and Crispin Glover
The film setting is in mid 1800s in the Western town of Machine. Willam Blake (Johnny Depp) travelled by train through the scenic landscape of American Midwest to a small town where he was offered a job as an accountant by Dickinson Steel Works. However, he found out through the office manager (John Hurt) that his job has been already taken. Willam Blake (Depp) spent all his money just to get there. He argued with the owner of the mill (Robert Mitchum) but he was asked to leave with shotgun pointed at him. He (Blake) was involved with a prostitute who sells paper flowers; she was also the girlfriend of Dickinson Steel boss’ only son. In the prostitute’s bedroom with Blake, the boyfriend came and exchanges of gun fires arose and her boyfriend died. Blake was wounded and escaped from the bedroom window, he went through the town outskirts where he met a Native American named Nobody (Gary Farmer) who helped him and thought that William is the famous poet named William Blake. While Mr. Dickinson learned about his son’s death he hired bounty hunters to track down and kill William Blake.
The film had a dark, sweaty, dusty feeling about the setting and somehow had beautiful cinematography, the story required patience to be appreciated.
References:
Roger Ebert (2011) Dead Man [Online] Available at http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960628/REVIEWS/606280301/1023 [Accessed 30 March 2011]
eFilm Critic (2011) Dead Man [Online] Available at http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=578 [Accessed 30 March 2011]
Nytime (2011) Dead Man [Online] Available at http://www.nytimes.com/library/filmarchive/dead_man.html [Accessed 30 March 2011]
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