Wild Wild West

I remember watching this film a long time ago, I have no idea why but my mum bought it on DVD. It's actually an awful film. Will Smith wonders why he's never won an oscar but he stars in utter drivel like this.

The main reason this film is terrible is the script writing and general plot of the film. It's very "American", and pretty much slaps the comedy in your face there's no subtlety. The way the oriental side is portrayed is very clichéd also. However there's something about it's ridiculousness that made me want to revisit it, because at the end of the day it's what I'm aiming for, so I guess it's good to look at an example that's taken it too far, yet remained to try to be serious and got it wrong. This is why I haven't pushed mine a lot further. In theory I really could have done, I mean maybe if it's successful and I feel like making a follow up in the future I will do but I'd keep in mind that it should be like Blazing Saddles rather than like this. But I think for this it's good that I'm not going all out ridiculous because there's also a skill in holding back, and I think I've got the right amount of holding back for people to question it and be like I don't know whether that's supposed to be serious or not and leave people entertained and slightly confused as to why they just watched it.

I don't like to just slate a film outright so what I will say is for the time this came out, it was very well put together, I imagine this was because they had such a large budget though. Some of the shot framing is actually quite good, it inspired some of my close up shots, like the horse hooves etc. Anyways I'll keep this short as I think I've mentioned everything that relates to my project, I could discuss about Will Smith and him being black in a "western-esque" film, however like I said in my post on The Hateful Eight I just don't think it's a subject that needs discussing.