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Melissa is absolutely right, Bill is already getting into a ton of trouble, if they had killed him it would have made him a martyr and we would have left the cinema with a tear to wipe away. Parker didn’t want to make him a martyr but rather show how perseverance rewards you if you don’t give up (which is exactly what happens to the hippy John Hurt). But be careful: the reward doesn’t come from being clever, good, and smart like in many other escape movies (just to name one; “Escape from Alcatraz” with Eastwood), but from fate, from luck and (...now you need it) from a (almost) broken ass. This is what sets it apart from other feel-good movies.

A film that squanders a good opportunity; for these things, it takes a visionary like Herzog, not the craftsmen like Joffe—an offense to Sergio Leone to compare him to him.

Great review! The first fifteen minutes of the film with Bill trying to get through customs with the two kilos of hashish made me sweat with tension more than any "horror" movie. Instead, the film sparked a diplomatic incident, as far as I know, and both Parker, Stone, and the author of the book were invited not to set foot in Turkey, being considered "persona non grata." Only recently have I read that Hayes, following the renunciation of the script written by the pretentious smart-ass Oliver Stone, was able to return to Turkey. A necessary mention for the Italian Paolo Bonacelli, great in the role of the spy prisoner whose tongue Bill bites off. A scene that was cut when it was broadcast on TV. The others were great too, including a young Brad Davis and Sir John Hurt as the stoned Englishman destined for oblivion in Turkish prisons.

Damn it, Psycho, released in 2001 for the Japanese market... just think that at the time these guys were completely ignored by record labels. Took played bass and Wallis was the king of the wah-wah guitar. In the lineup, I see Bidwell mentioned, who ended up in Mungo Jerry as a drummer before leaving this valley of tears too.

The other was Larry Wallis from Entire Sioux Nation, but the Shagrat did live concerts; did they release an album?

Let’s keep in mind that according to the value scale published by Poletti, his 1 on a (scale of 1 to 5) is equivalent to a solid 4 (on a scale of 1 to 10). A great result for the Pingitore-Vitali duo.

I have never seen the film, only a few clips that aired on some private TV channels, where I felt embarrassed for talented actors like Merlini, Carotenuto, and Reder, who were forced into degrading roles and humiliating lines. The review is, as usual, competent, balanced, and lively—qualities that are not often seen.

@melissa, well, I’m glad you liked it, there are two of us (actually three, since Contemplazione likes it too but he had forgotten, that guy is chasing too many women, I think he’ll end up making do with magazines…)

Yeah, psycho, Bolan was the other side of the frikketism of the time, the one with unicorns and family peace, and he couldn’t get along with Took, who was a true stoner worthy of the Deviants. He definitely wrote a couple of songs for Think Phink and was also on Farren's solo "Mona...", and anyway, he was also there in the early Fairies, but I don't think he released a solo album back then, at least before he died...

for me the best album by T.Rex with Bolan who was crazy about "Pet Sound" by the Beach Boys. The best tracks are "Cat Black" and "She Was Born to Be my Unicorn." That guy you see on the cover with Marc Bolan is the percussionist Steve Took who, on this album, played a toy drum with loose skins. I believe it was Took's last album with T.Rex because during the US tour the police arrested him while he was trying to cross the highway high on LSD. Kicked out by Bolan, where could he go to play if not with other stoners like the survivors of the Deviants, forming the seminal Pink Fairies? What a character...