I have always loved the classic scene at the end of the "dollars of dollars" when OEO (Clint Eastwood) returned to the city for a final shootout with chief Badi and his chickens. Ramon (Ianan Maria Volunte) has shot him several times, just to watch with disbelief as he rises again and reveals a makeshift vest from the armored under his poncho. It is a neat metaphor for the western genre as a whole- every time it is delivered to lift the hill, it stretches on its feet and continues to shoot.

After Moribund's previous decade, Hollywood Western enjoyed a coarse burst of health in the wounds until the mid-1990s after Oscar's Oscar successes with wolves and "disadvantaged". During this period, Ein Hackman seemed to have dropped out of his juicy role in the second to play a very similar villain in Sam Raimi's "fast and dead", playful respect for Sergio Leone's Spaghetti, who even had a similar act of stopping the bullet. The project was green illuminated by Sharon Stone in the lead role after the success of "Basic Instinct", with TheVist also signing as co-producer. But the studio was not happy with her choice of Russell Crowe as a heroic Lovebow interest.

The film's room is simple. Stone plays Ellen "Lady" McKenzie, a classic wanderer with guns, driving in the dusty old western city of ransom. She arrives on the eve of the QuickDraw competition, organized by sadistic mayor, Johnon Herod (Ein Hackman), secretly seeking revenge for her father's murder. Herod set a huge money prize for the winner, attracting a variety of robbers, professional killers and Bragarts to take part in the competition. The chief among them is Ace (Lance Henriksen), talent with blades; Clay Cantrell (Keith David), Business Gun; And the child (Leonardo DiCaprio), an Herod's son, who only wants to earn his father's respect. Also reluctantly included is Court (Crow), a reformed preacher-proclaimed to participate in Herod, his former partner in the bad old days. The strong lineup also has a series of colorful support actors, including the Hingle, Kevin Conway, Mark Bojor, Tobin Bell and Roberts Blouses to add a little extra atmosphere. However, Sharon Stone had to use her entire shot in Hollywood to fight for Crowe and another key member of the cast.

After Sharon Stone was thrown into the "fast and the dead", she tried to use her Starwar power to call the footage. She received finally approval for the director and decided on Sam Raimi for the strength of the "Army of Dark". That choice met with the approval of the studio, and Stone made a double reliable, insisting that he would go beyond if Raimi was not in charge. Finding someone to play Court was more problematic because Stone wanted a practically unknown actor of Aussie in the role.

A few years earlier, Crowe had a great influence playing Hando, a charismatic leader of the gang of neo -Nazi bullies at Romper Stomper. At that moment, however, he was still a very mystery outside the home country. Initially auditing playing a different role in the "fast and the dead", Stone pushed him to throw himself as a male leadership instead. A few years later, Crow explained the situation during an interview with "Late Night with Seth Meyers" (through People):

"(Sharon Stone) was a kind of fight with swords with the male producers of the film and she just lowered her leg and said," I will engage the person I want to engage as a loveboat interest (...) If it were not for her strength of dedication, I don't know how long I could have been before I got American film. I have a lot to thank her. "

Stone got his man, and Crowe was not the only future list of A, who had the TheV. Even though he came out of the back of the Oscar nomination for his performance at "What does Gilbert Grape eat?" The perpetrators were not convinced of casting Leonardo DiCaprio as a child. According to Stone's mind, DiCaprio was the only young actor who totally nailed the audition, but the Gave studio gave an ultimatum. If he wanted him, he would have to pay his own pocket salary. That she did, and the calculation prompted Stone to sign as co-producer of the film. Stone's commitment to the two actors pays off; While the "fast and the dead" was not a major critical and commercial success at the time, Crow and DiCaprio are two of the best things in the film.

Given He was hired on the strength of his original "Evil Dead" Trilogy, Sam Raimi Directs "The Quick and Dead" with all the visual flair you would expect, Enjoying HIMSELF immensely with a Flashy Range of Doly. Zooms, Dutch Angles, Mega Close-Ups, and a Few Ghoulishly Fun Touches Like the Victor of a Quickdraw Viewed Through a Gaping Hole in the Loser's Skull. However, it is a mixed bag because just like Raimi cannot keep his horror and his humor separatedHis more strange blossoms turn away from drama and uncertainty about most of the film.

Sergio Leone is an obvious reference point and the first hour or so is never more than a complex pasture. With such a rudimentary story of revenge, inhabited by action characters, the film is boiling Leone's spaghetti, west to their most important element: The Showdown. Raimi nails the increased style, but there is one big difference. For all their operatics, Leone's films are independent worlds where those who bite their nails are intensively directed to the characters a few seconds before the draw. This is that, the last moments before killing or killing. In contrast, Raimi is so obvious to the audience that many of the early confrontations in the "fast and the dead" feel like a Hollywood equivalent of a shootout for tourists in the "West West" theme park.

The dramatic deposits are certainly improving because the dead tree is omitted and descending to our last four competitors, and probably won't surprise anyone. This is where the casting really comes into its own. Ein Hackman is given - he could chew scenography with the best of them without resorting to Jami's theaters, and he imposes Herod by tightening and threatening with equal comfort. Sharon Stone looks a little temporarily with her Clint Eastwood-IMS in the early stages, but she grows into her character and we really take root for her to the end. But it is Crow and DiCaprio who really sell the last act, with the Australian radiating the same kind of spiritual charisma that he will bring to his Oscar winner at Gladiator, and Leo delivered the highest moment of the film in the child's clash with his father. It is uncertain to say that Stone is right to fight for both, as their consecutive careers have proven.