Future director Alex Cox moved from his native England to Los Angeles in 1977 because he thought the British film scene was missing. While attending Uzla, he made his first short, "Edge City", bitter, talking, semi-archaelistic film about combat artists walking around the ugliest parts of the city, discussing the nature of artistic success. ("Edge City" is on YouTube.) It briefly led to a contract with Plum with Mike Nemit (the Monquei group), which provided over a million dollars for the first Cox feature, 1984's "Reo Man", seed film on punk -rock scene and legitimate cult phenomenon. "Repo Man" was not an originally hit, but its soundtrack (full of LA hardcore) sold so well that it was re -released, becoming a financial success.

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Cox loved the punk rock, already embodying his spirit in his outsider the look of the film. In 1986 That film was critically praised at the time and is still loved to this day. Both "Repo" and "Nancy" are considered vital works in the Cinema canon.

In 1987, however, Cox's growing relationship with Hollywood stalled. He made critically and unsuccessful "directly in hell", a modern remake of Spaghetti West "Angongo kills ... If you live, shoot!" The film today has a cult, mainly because the cast included musicians such as Courtney Leo, Oeo Strummer, Elvis Costello and Grace Onesons. (Director Jimim Armarmush also appears.) But at that time, no one wanted it. That same year, Cox directed "Walker", biographical West for William Walker (Ed Harris), a crazy revolutionary who was once inserted into the Nicaragua presidency. There was a $ 6 million budget, Cox's largest to date.

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But it was considered too much political and too violent for universal, and the studio decided not to promote the film. When only $ 300,000 in the box office, Cox was officially disappointed.

To offer a historic perspective, Walker came out in the midst of one of the many scandals of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was a secret and illegal funding of the contrast, Nicaraguan right -wing militia group that fought a war on the country's communist government, which came to power in 1979. Reagan was constantly given money, and the violence continued. It was a major example of contemporary colonialism, with the CIA and the US government manipulating world governments for their perverse purposes.

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Ask your parents about the Iran-controlled affair somewhere, as there was a lot of abuse over the description above. Or at least look "the last thing he loved."

Walker was made in response to the scandal, and Cox found another historic example of an American obsessed with violence that infiltrated Nicaragua. In the 1850s, William Walker was hired by billionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt (Peter Boyle) to go to Nicaragua and help the Local Democratic Party in the overthrow of the legitimistic government. Vanderbilt only wants access to a landmark of delivery, but Walker believes in a manifest fate, thinking he is fulfilling a fierce task. Walker provides multiple bloody battle wins and effectively fulfills its mission, though it leads to backstation and false choices and extremely chaos in the region. Walker is more or less appointed president of Nicaragua, a position he holds for two years. He tries to introduce slavery and kills the people who oppose him. There is no chance of this ending well.

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And indeed, the end of "Walker" is a surreal, anachronistic blooming that links the events of the film to this day, not explicit.

Walker ends with the character of the title so angry that he orders the city to be burned on the ground. He also starts saying that America will never leave Nicaragua. They are destined to be there. Then, in an amazing twist, Walker is covered by today's US helicopters (!), Which landed to evacuate Americans in Walker's indictment. Walker is declared arrogant to be president of Nicaragua, so he is left behind. During the loans, Cox reduced the footage of Reagan news that lies for America's presence in Nicaragua.

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It can be seen why Universal has discovered that "Walker" is "too political". Cox did not bother a gentle parallel between Walker and Reagan, but explicitly saying that they were motivated by the same dark, violent impulses and obsessions, trembling in the affairs of another country through a perverted colonialist righteousness.

The film attracted several notorious pans. Ein Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the film two thumbs, with both writing reviews of Zero Starvist. Review of Ebert He declared that it is a meaningless accident, writing "this film is obviously intended as a comedy or satire. I am writing" obviously "because, if a comedy, there is no laughter, and if satire, there is no purpose." Many critics believe that coke political posture is too obvious and too chaotic. It was only rethinked years later, eventually gaining enough reputation to publish the collection of criteria.

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Indeed, on the Blu-ray criterion, there is a special feature in which Cox reads some of the negative "Walker" reviews. He hated the handling of it in the studioand refused to work in the study system once again, even saying to the club That he was put on the "black list". Cox has made nine additional features, as all without big deals for distribution in the United States The "repo man" manufacturer, very understandable, took the ball and went home.