John Milius on DeBaser: reviews, quotes and key works

John Milius

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Forcinephiles who love epic adventures, sword-and-sorcery, and 1970s american cinema.
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The Profile

American screenwriter and director known for mythic, muscular storytelling. He directed The Wind and the Lion, Big Wednesday, Conan the Barbarian, and Red Dawn, and co-wrote Apocalypse Now.

Co-writer of Apocalypse Now; screenwriter on Magnum Force and Jeremiah Johnson; director of Red Dawn; frequent collaborations with composer Basil Poledouris.

Three reviews celebrate John Milius’s taste for mythic, muscular storytelling. Big Wednesday is hailed as a generational epic with surfboards instead of horses. Conan the Barbarian shines through image-driven spectacle and Basil Poledouris’s score. The Wind and the Lion emerges as a rousing, romantic adventure with political bite.

Notable Quotes

❝ In the last scene, the epic narrative reaches its emotional peak, glorifying an entire youth and a way of life that just refuses to give victory to death.

❝ What makes the film beautiful? First of all, Basil Poledouris' epic soundtrack, which remarkably underscores all phases of the film, then come the fantastic shots, truly suggestive, and the general epic atmosphere of the film, in which, among other things, the dialogues are reduced to a minimum, to give way to the language of images.

❝ John Milius was an extraordinary storyteller, even in his less successful films.

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