Wise Blood 1979 Trailer
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Available on DVD & Blu-ray from www.classicfilm... from 12/09/16
Legendary film director John Huston creates one of his most cerebral films that will stay with the viewer for a long time. Set in the American Deep South during the post-war era, Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes, an unhinged and aimless war-veteran, who decides to become a Bible-thumping preacher for a quasi-religious cult called ‘The Church Without Christ’. Linking up with a fraudulent hustler from hellfire-and-brimstone preaching circuit - who pretends to be blind for the assembled believers - Motes is put under pressure by the fraudster to blind himself for real so that he can truly ‘see the light’. A dark satire on religious movements that, beautifully acted by Dourif, Huston and William Hickey.
Starring
Brad Dourif
John Huston
Dan Shor
Harry Dean Stanton
Amy Wright
Ned Beatty
Director
John Huston
The light-hearted, bouncy music and the overall tone of this trailer in no way are true to the actual film. Looks like the studio knew they had an odd but excellent film on their hands, which would appeal to a very select few filmgoers. So they cut a mainstream/borderline comedy trailer for it to appeal to a wide audience. This is a strange, effective film, particularly for fans of 70's cinema.
This trailer is totally misleading.
Cool movie
You absolutely nailed it. Trailer makes it seem like a Disney Family flick. Fortunately, it's dark and heavy and well acted. I like it more than The Maltese Falcon.
We like effective films.
It's a dark comedy, satire on religion
I remember this film being far darker in tone than this trailer implies...
An all time classic by John Huston. I've loved it since like FOREVER ! :)
This film is full of great one-liners!
"Where you are, ain't no good if you can't get away from it!"
"Some Preacher left his mark on you!"-------------------------Ain't that the truth!
Ain't that the truth!!
the 70s is truly one of the great movie eras.
I think that this is the most unfaithful trailer I have ever seen for a film.
after I saw this trailer, I wondered whether I had seen the same movie !!
Amen,mam
Huston actually thought the movie was comedic. I learned more about it from Criterion Channel
Ministry used those samples to perfection on "Jesus built my hotrod (Redline/Whiteline version) Fantastic movie.
1:07 Fun fact: that's an actual "shrunken" human head.
Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
All of a sudden I want to ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
Amy Wright was adorable in this
Wise Blood is a novel about the fringes of evangelical Protestantism written by a devout Catholic who doesn't understand Protestantism (I have been in both religions), and the movie was made by secularists who don't understand Christianity at all. But it's still pretty good. As usual the book is better than the movie. Also recommended: The Violent Bear It Away, also by Flannery O'connor (unfortunately her lack of knowledge of Protestantism limits that one too).
He George you there? did the movie catch eh spirit of the novel well would you say?
I didn't think it was about Protestantism so much as it was about con artists using Christianity as a cover.
Why hasn’t HBO Max acquires the streaming right and remake rights? It was made by New Line in 1979 before Warner Bros purchased it, but this film is basically grandfathered in. It could work in the modern day as a satire.
John Huston built up this reputation as a master filmmaker with classics like Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen, etc. Then later in his career he started releasing these odd melodramas like Reflections in a Goldeneye, Night of the Iguana, Fat City, this movie, and The Dead. They're all critically acclaimed but I can't believe it's the same director. I don't understand these movies at all. I thought Wise Blood was funny, but what's the point exactly? Strange, strange movie.
Read the book.
@@MifuneBoBune No thank you! I actually was thinking about this movie the other day and couldn't remember the name for a minute. Man it was weird. I mean, not like Eraserhead weird, but characters just made the most bizarre decisions imaginable.
The point is Southern Gothic. If you don't know what that is then you won't know the point.
@@ThaiThom I shouldn't have said "what's the point." The point of any film is to entertain. I understand that's supposedly the genre, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have to make sense. I loved Cape Fear and enjoyed movies like Mud, Interview with the Vampire, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Deliverance, etc. I don't know, personally I just prefer Houston's earlier films like Sierra Madre and Maltese Falcon. African Queen.
This movie 🍿🎥 is very nicely done but it made me mentally physically unwell. An ode to darkest nihilism and emptiness.
This film made no sense to me. Two hours wasted trying to figure out why this film is considered a masterpiece.
To understand this story you must read Flannery O'Connor's book.....which this is based upon. And even after you read the book, you would still need to read an analysis of O'Connor's literary style for a better understanding. The entire novel is Catholic symbolism......very deep.
@@uriahpeep1753 That sounds miserable, I mean sometimes you just want to watch a movie and be entertained.
Your not alone, I don't get it either.
I love it. One of my all time faves. A very peculiar flick
Don't try and figure it out, just go with the flow.
For all the ministry fans here 1:10 and 1:40 are the Jesus built my Hot Rod samples
Wish I liked this one. It was a non-union shoot, with major Hollywood character actors working for next to nothing. But the film doesn't work; nothing is adequately motivated. Hazel seems merely insane, he doesn't seem touched by zealotry or enthusiasm. I haven't read the O'Connor novel but this doesn't work as a movie. It left me cold.
I’m reading the book now, almost done. Based on the trailer, this movie doesn’t seem to fit the tone at all...
Yeah. You’re right. The tone of the book is a lot darker.
I didn't read the book, so I don't know how it compares with the film, but this trailer makes no justice to the film. ^^
Same here. It looks dead on but that zany music, and "uproarious"?
the book had the bleakest ending I've ever read in my life lmao
Well, the movie is nothing like the trailer. it's a dark movie. This trailer makes no sense.
this movie shows a real shrunken head
You've come from yahoo haven't you...
@@reoreborn1209 hello fellow yahooian
WTF with this music?
It's the same music they used at parts of the movie. Like when Enoch is getting dressed in his disguise to go steal the shrunken human.
Great movie but it should have been a period piece.
Wait a minute.. Is that chucky?
Yes! Brad Dourif...voice of Chucky, Mentat Assassin and man of many talents. 👍
@@quentincollins1825 Mentat! Tis through will alone we set our minds motion. yeah Quen
I'm currently reading the novel this is based on and it is really strange.
What a bunch of kooks.
Southern-Gothic is one of the better genres out there.
Great movie, terrible trailer. It's an extraordinarily misleading trailer come up and by no means does it capture one iota of the depth of the film.
Hazel motes is black in the novel why would they have a white actor as hazel ? can someone explain
Race relations was always a big deal for for movies and tv. The first interracial kiss took place over a decade prior and was met with some backlash. Hell, Candyman (1992) had huge backlash for an interracial couple. So a southern white man having relations with a black woman. There would be problems for people. At least that's my guess
Hazel Moates is certainly not black in the novel! He dressed in black but was not black.
Have you read the book? “Then he turned his head to the window. He saw his PALE reflection...” I’ve never heard a black man described as pale.
Hazel Motes is not described once as black in the novel. I'm not sure how you came up with that.
BS.
What a weird and dark azz movie...
Weyes Blood
yep that band was named after the book
I loved this movie, but Brad Dourif was the WRONG CHOICE for the Preacher
The problem with Doraf, and the whole tone of the movie, is that Douraf and the movie think the story is about how stupid religion is, and the whole movie comes off as a lampoon of Christianity, which author O'Connor did not intend at all. O'Connor, a devout Catholic, meant to write a story about the emptiness of life without Christ and how the human heart longs for God, even if it is purely a subconscious longing.
The book is better than the movie but the book suffers from O'connor's lack of understanding of evangelical Protestantism. Still a book worth reading.
I haven't seen the movie but he seems like a great choice, though I think I'd prefer him as Enoch.
@@tubasaur He, or his director, badly misunderstood the character and the story in general. Flannery O'Conner's thesis: man is lost and confused without Christ. This movie's thesis and the actor's obvious take on the character: religion is whacky by it's very nature. This is what happens when you let unbelievers make a movie about religion.
Nah, he was perfect
@@GeorgePenton-np9rh Well Said George. thanks again.
The book was not a comedy. ..it was dark and wonderfully strange. This movie looks stupid.
This trailer really doesn't do it justice. The movie is certainly comedic, but mostly in a twisted gallows humor kinda way, certainly not the national lampoon skit you get the vibe off from the trailer editing. Can't think of a better comparison at the moment than something like Terry Gilliam's Tideland, though admittedly it's not a perfect match.
The movie wasn't a comedy - in any way shape or form - it conformed fairly well to the book - I loved Flannery O'Connor's books/ and was not disappointed by the movie - the trailer is just dumb
The movie must be shot with a literalist viewpoint simply because the movie script cannot capture the symbolism that O'Connor's work contains. In other words, no one could even faintly understand the film unless the book had been read beforehand. I do not think O'Connor's literary works can be faithfully depicted by a screen script. To do so yields a grotesque parody of her work.
The trailer is misleading with he silly music and the way it's cut. The movie plays much differently. It seems the studio was trying to broaden the appeal with the advertising to sell tickets.
@@uriahpeep1753 Word