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Willie ] 4 BY DOUG BELL ra Film Critic Of a 1 Few westerns are being he made these days. That is a w? sad fact, because the th western genre is certainly m one of America's greatest ne contributions to cinema. Fi From Staeemnnh to The Wild Bunch, the best westerns (ostensibly ra historical-costume films) de have reflected con- Su temporary America's th changing moral and political th< attitudes. More importantly, th they have captured the Ar mythic quality of our natural sy terrain by population it with various types of heroes? ba tough, shrewd men usually, Kc each with his own code of ini values. ed ha Of these heroes, John br< Wayne sat tallest in the hie saddle for thirty years. Clint ve Eastwood should have be replaced him; the Italian no trilogy for Sergio Leone de (culimnating in The Good. as the Bad and the Ugly) and ou his own High Plains Drifter po established Eastwood's un marvelous mysterious wl persona, which he should str have been developing all wa along. Sadly, all he seems interested in developing is is M i 9HBUttr i ( ^3 i y ^' i i i 3 j ] Sponsored by I j In association i 3 MADE POSSIBLE Nelson Tries I 1;.:: 1 . ' ' pport with a hammy angutan. .. v;: Presently, we are without ^ % JM main Man of the West, and f ' ?' JM : is sorely missed. Thus it ^ ?9 as with great expectation S| at 1 watched Willie Nelson ^ ount up in Barbarosa, a / A w western directed by ' edSchepisi. Nelson is Barbarosa. a , -H i n g y, middle-aged " \ ", sperado who has made . ' : oh a notorious career of ievery and murder along e Texas-Mexico border mSii at, to the Mexicannericans, his name is jpf |?|i| nonymous with the devil. ??h, rhe plot concerns Bar friendship with (Gary Busey), locent, not-too-coordinat- p,/ young farmer who. / J ving accidently killed his 1 ' other-in-law, is forced to ie out. He finds the going jyj ry tough until Barbarosa friends him. Having Willie Nelson is a n thing better to do Karl ^ \yest jn 'Barbai cides to follow the old man a sort of apprentice "legend," which is the r tlaw. Though he proves a subject, the movie has or thief, Karl matures shaky foundation. 1 der the spell of Barbarosa, success of the mo ?o proves to possess a depends partly on eak of sober wisdom and realization of Barbaros irm affection. "legendary" qualities. Tr rhe problem with the film the film's conception that, in terms of the rooted in legend: nat nrm wrrrCTrwprwM m i he RHUU Cultural Series Committee and i uitl1 Ronald A. Wilford Associates. BY STUDENT ACTIVITY FEES. e Friday 3ut As West misdeeds) ..... m Igx* j^U cJglUrtllC II Id ^1^. steals only 'c . ol meager exist< & kills only when WL status as a "li . originated on night some t v k-'v- ' /> '": -V::; " Jfefe^ before the ever He married a V W / power-wield aristocrat, di him. Immedia ceremony, mysterious fi outcast. Roland, tl father-in-law, most to pei Barbarosa r indoctrinating grandchildrei I etc. against tl hopes that one someday kill ew version of the Man of Barbarosa's >osa ? "heroic loner" family difficu eal Texan William D. Wittliff inherent pers i a drew from stories his (which is the ^he grandfather told him for the distinguishes vie screenplay. But Wittliff heroes as the seems unable to imbue the Eastwood). ;a's character with any truly Though Ban ue, heroic stature. conveying or is mythic claims ive Barbarosa's deeds (or strong points. ONLY 200 SEA March 7 TOWNSHI TICKETS ON SALl RHUU Travel Center ? Public $9.00 IISC Stu . :I~LI? c ni ii in . r unit: dvdiiduit* iium Kriuu 10 u iapted transportation for the h< >on request ? Call 7-2068 JSC Student Government. ern Hero o ro m atd ic u, V mui V 1J icvujf CddL. Willi IlliS n heroic: he scruffy beard, braided hair, > furnish his and even voice, he is the ince and he very incarnation of he pushed to.His outlaw. He has a definite iving legend" magnetism which, under the his wedding guidance of a Peckinpah or a wenty years Leone, might bear fruit its of the film, someday. Gary Busey? Mexican girl himself no stranger to whose father legends, having played d), a wealthy, Buddy Holly a few years i r> r% - --- ' * 1 mB ?. ago? is aaequate in the sapproves of secondary part. tely after the It is significant that a violent, Barbarosa is directed by ght erupted Australian Fred Schepisi. jrbarosa an The Aussie filmmakers seem most at home in outdoor dramas, and Barbarosa le vengeful bears some stylistic has done the resemblance to Schepisi's -petuate the much superior Chant of nystique by Jimmie Blacksmith. his children, There are minor flaws: an i, nephews, unconvincing subplot (the he outcast in granddad who tries to kill ; of them will Busey) and a poorly arhim. Thus, ticulated character (Vega as status as a Barbarosa's wife). But owes more to overall, it is a decent lties than to western. 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