Total height of the set ranges from 33" to 45-1/2" (from the floor to the top of the drum heads). A great conga set for musicians in the early elementary or middle school age range!Title: Dead Man
Date of Release: May 26, 1995
Directed and Written: Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Drama, Western
Main Characters: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott and John Hurt.
SUMMARY:
William Blake who has received a letter to work as an accountant in a town of Machine begins his journey to that town but as he arrives one month later he can not get his dreams. In the first night of his arrival he meet a beautiful girl and as William get wounded by the girl's ex-fianc he begins his real journey from ugliness to perfection by the guidance of an Indian who is really the God's angel helping him to become pure in the world of limbo.
ANALYSIS:
"There is no death, only a change of worlds."
Seattle Suquamish chief
Historically the story of" Dead Man" took place during the period of west movement, when American settlers tried to remove all the obstacles on a way to west. Event they killed many indian children, Women and men who were Native Americans in their invasion toward the west lands. Jarmusch in "Dead Man" tends to clear all the images pictured about the savage indians and civilized whites in Hollywood.
William Blake begins his journey by train, the first machine which has been made by man. You may guess that the journey is from everything to nothing but actually this is a road from nothing to everything. Train as a symbol of humane development and access to technology has been used to be a symbol of the world of machine. The cruel and wild world which is able to burn and destroy human beings like the train kiln which tends to burn a man who is filling it with coal.
Train carries passengers toward the west where men prefer to kill the symbols of nature not on the back of their horses but from the inside of the train,
The sequence of William's arrival to the town by emphasizing on the board of town of machine standing close to the symbol of virgin nature, cactus, is a notable example of the reality in the west and whites invasion.
Williams with many dreams enters to the town allover gray, lifeless and dead. Actually the sequence of town imposes wilderness, corruption and immorality. As a result William, a person who has entered to hell instead of paradise, goes to cabaret where we find him alone in medium shot among the crowd.
In the first night of his arrival he seeks calmness in the arms of a beautiful girl who is a symbol of beauty and fineness in the world of wilderness. A beautiful girl who shows her kindness by offering her paper flowers and her body to William but so pity that in the marsh whatever the earth be fertile it can only create paper flowers. From that first night William begins his journey to perfection when he gets wounded by the bullet purified and passed through the heart of love. In the next sequence Jarmusch draws a picture of Williams who open his eyes and sees nobody by the use of fade-in technique.
Through watching this movie, through each fade-in, we enter to the world of limbo, an interval between death and resurrection among all wildernesses in the world of machine; and with each fade-out we go through the new window to the world of ugliness.
Nobody is an angle who has been appointed to guide William on the way to perfection. Nobody believes that to a quest of vision a man must undergo mortification. He takes William's glasses to remind him that he should close his earthly eyes and open his heart to the world of limbo. In the other sequence, nobody asks William to go and meet three gays reading the Holy Book to teach him, that the appearance of actions are not important but the soul of actions.
"Dead man" is divided into to types of motion: slow motion and fast motion.
From the initial sequence to the sequence in which William gets wounded, pictures have a fast motion but afterward we face with a slow motion compatible to the world of death and limbo that prepare William for the final flight.
"Dead man" visual effects and black and white pictures have been chosen wisely to introduce the world of death and limbo to audiences who have no experience about it. It is obvious that if you be unfamiliar with an entity, you can not imagine it clearly colored with beautiful colors. Jarmusch has used the gray filter to draw a picture of William's journey to the white world of purity.
Although many of the critiques believe that the film music is so influential but I think this good music made by Phill Young, can be considered as a weak point. The first reason is excess to the use of music in all of the sequences. As William goes toward perfection, the use of music not only decreases but also continuously increases. For example, in a sequence that William finds a dead deer and sleeps near it on the ground, Young uses the musical instruments instead of the sounds of nature. The other reason is that it would be better if Young used a single melody or the other musical instrument instead of electronic guitar which extremely produces the sound of the savage world of machines.
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