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Type: DVD

No Of Discs: 1

EAN: 5023965360724

Region Code: Region 0

Subtitle Language: Hard of Hearing English

Title: The Proposition

Topic: Western

Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia UK

Studio: Tartan

Release Date: 17/07/2006

Certificate: 18

Format: DVD

Producer: Chris Brown, Jackie O'sullivan

Language: English

Release Year: 2006

Actor: Emily Watson, Danny Huston, Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, David Wenham, John Hurt

Director: John Hillcoat

Features: Widescreen, Tartan Exclusive Interview With Guy Pearce\Tartan Exclusive Interview With Danny Huston\Interviews With Cast And Crew\Making Of Featurettes\Original Theatrical Trailer\Tartan Trailer Reel\Film Notes, Closed Caption

Run Time: 100 Mins

Genre: Westerns

Film/TV Title: The Proposition

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen

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Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a soundtrack written with Dirty Three member Warren Ellis. Cave's 19th-century tale begins with the proposition of the title, as Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) captures fugitive brothers Charley (Guy Pearce) and Mikey Burns (Richard Wilson) at a scene of bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur (Danny Huston), in order to be set free, Stanley drags Mikey to a decrepit jailhouse while he waits for Charley to carry out the deed. Hillcoat's Western reeks of the dry desert heat, with flies buzzing, temperatures soaring, and emotions spiralling out of control. As Charley reluctantly sets about his task, Hillcoat and cinematographer Benoit Delhomme create a mesmerising vision of the Australian outback. The slow, meandering pace of the film is peppered with brutal jolts of unremitting violence, and there are fine performances from the entire cast, who are supported in small but significant roles from Emily Watson (BREAKING THE WAVES) and John Hurt (THE ELEPHANT MAN). Cave's screenplay is tight and focused, leaving little room for sentiment or anyone for the audience to root for by giving all his principal characters plenty of grimly undesirable personality traits. But it works perfectly, and in Winstone and Pearce, Hillcoat got his casting exactly right. Both actors give dizzying performances as two men unable to escape their personal demons, finding a tragic outlet only in ceaseless acts of aggression. A memorable feature that lingers long after the last frame of celluloid has flickered onto the screen, THE PROPOSITION establishes Hillcoat as a director of major gravitas.

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Film/TV Title

The Proposition

Actor

Emily Watson, Danny Huston, Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, David Wenham, John Hurt

Director

John Hillcoat

Format

DVD

Language

English

Release Year

2006

Features

Widescreen, Tartan Exclusive Interview With Guy Pearce\Tartan Exclusive Interview With Danny Huston\Interviews With Cast And Crew\Making Of Featurettes\Original Theatrical Trailer\Tartan Trailer Reel\Film Notes, Closed Caption

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2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Run Time

100 Mins

Genre

Westerns

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Australia

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Empire - Brutal, bloody and brilliant, Hot Dog - Utterly compelling, Hotdog - Utterly compelling, Uncut - A blood-spattered matserpiece, Total Film - Brilliant

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English

Movie/TV Title

The Proposition

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Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo\Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround\DTS 5.1 Surround

Screenwriter

Nick Cave

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DVD 9

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by shaun1521biz
13 Jul, 2006
A hidden gem
A new cinematic sub genre now exists. The Australian western. The Proposition though transplants the mythic landscape of The American versions into a broiling sun/sand blasted fly plagued hell hole. It's not a nice place, slavered in heart that regularly fluctuates between 40-50 degrees centigrade. You sort of wonder why anyone would want to be there in the first place. But there people are, in 1880 the British have set up a settlement in Banyon, a newly established town in Queensland. Overseen by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) who along with his wife Martha (Emily Watson) have made a futile attempt to relocate their homeland into this godforsaken place with their net curtains carefully tended garden and roast Sunday lunches the settlement is under a pall of fear after a vicious gang of ... A new cinematic sub genre now exists. The Australian western. The Proposition though transplants the mythic landscape of The American versions into a broiling sun/sand blasted fly plagued hell hole. It's not a nice place, slavered in heart that regularly fluctuates between 40-50 degrees centigrade. You sort of wonder why anyone would want to be there in the first place. But there people are, in 1880 the British have set up a settlement in Banyon, a newly established town in Queensland. Overseen by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) who along with his wife Martha (Emily Watson) have made a futile attempt to relocate their homeland into this godforsaken place with their net curtains carefully tended garden and roast Sunday lunches the settlement is under a pall of fear after a vicious gang of outlaws led by the psychopathic Arthur Burns (Danny Huston) have slaughtered a family of settlers. Stanley eager to tame this frontier land hunts down and captures Burns brothers Charlie (Guy Pearce) and his semi-retarded kid brother Mikey (Richard Wilson) and offers Charlie a gut wrenching proposal. In order to save Mickey and himself from the hangman he must hunt and kill his older brother. Given 9 days to carry out this onerous task Charlie sets out on a journey redolent of Marlow's search for Kurtz in Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness", into an unforgiving unknown with god knows what horrors at the end of it. The Proposition is as, everyone remotely interested in the film knows, is written by Nick Cave , and anyone familiar with his music, most notably it's preoccupation with death , murder and brutal lyricism , and also his novel "And The Ass Saw The Angel" will not be too surprised at the levels of violence. The blood letting is in all truth a little over the top straying too close to horror grand guignol at times but the exceptional performances by all the cast with notable cameos from John Hurt as aged bounty hunter Jellon Lamb and the expressive script more than compensate. Directed by John Hillcoat who has collaborated with Cave on the film "Ghosts of The Civil Dead" who in turn wrote the rather fine sound track for Hillcoats "To Have And To Hold"( Cave provides the soundtrack here along with Bad Seeds stalwart Warren Ellis) the films themes are multi layered and complex utilising a number of dichotomous situations- family ties versus survival, civilisation versus the frontier, the subjugation of an indigenous population versus their willing co-operation , to produce a film that echoes richly with themes common with the traditional western yet gives them a slightly contemporary sadistic twist without compromising any of it's poetry or emotional resonance. The western is alive and well and currently residing in Australia, but it's a more savage beast by far .
by mod_wolf_85
11 Jul, 2008
The only film I sat through and enjoyed
This is the only film ever to make me numb by the end. It captures early Australia's desolation and complete sense of despair perfectly. I was a bit hesistant about watching it at first, I was worried it may be a Hollywood type version of our history but absolute credit to Nick Cave and John Hillcoat. You MUST watch this film.

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