Chilean born actor/writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky hasn’t helmed a movie in 18 years and I dare say the core audience of OWF won’t really know who he is.
Out of the eight movies he has made, I’ve only seen one myself. But when AICN this morning posted this Youtube video of Jodorowsky giving us a preview of his metaphysical spaghetti western gangster film KING SHOT, well I got very excited indeed.
The movie is to star Nick Nolte, Asia Argento, Mickey Rourke, Marilyn Manson and Udo Kier. Has that got your attention?
I haven’t got a clue what the status of the project is, in fact I no nothing of the film outside of what is shown in that video. I couldn’t tell you if he has been filmed already or not. All I know is that the video I’ve just seen above looks frikkin’ awesome.
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This thing looks like it will cost $150 million to make. And I’m fairly certain it won’t make back $150 million.
Fuck it. Art is art.
Jodorowsky is an absolute maniac, in the best possible sense. I bought ‘El Topo’ based on the synopsis of the film on play.com, which reads;
The gunfighter El Topo (’The Mole’) and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara), who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks, El Topo and Mara complete the mission, accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert, where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live. Awakening years later, he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town, promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult. El Topo’s son, now a man, is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo, the townspeople, and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end.
Have you ever heard anything so obscure in your life! The uninitiated should definately give ‘El Topo’ a watch. It’s bonkers.
Now this is a film to be excited about. Jodorowsky is a mad genius.