Burn!

A Marxist swashbuckler! Brando gives his personal favourite of all his performances as Sir William Walker, the veddy-cool Victorian secret agent who liberates a slave colony. Only he's no hero - he does it to keep the price of sugar down for England's tea, and soon the slaves are even worse off & fight back. A widly subversive politcal/action classic.

Another strong political drama from Pontecorvo about the inability of European colonialists to cope with or even fully comprehend the revolutionary spirit. A few awkward time cuts introduce some confusion, but otherwise the story is quite gripping with starkly realistic scenes. Brando is superb in the lead, effortlessly slipping into the character and pulling off a natural British accent. Morricone's idiosyncratic score at first seems out of place, but eventually I really warmed up to it.

You could describe this movie in the vaguest terms, and I would know that I would love it. With a premise like this, the director simply cannot fail.

78.000

One of the best movie about revolution. And also you find the clue of capitalist system how to transform slavery to labourer.

"Burn!" appears to be about revolution, but instead, it's about a very cynical man that creates a person of principle. The movie starts a little slow, but it soon pulled you into a very engaging story.

Filme #800 do ano. Há 50 anos tinha sua première na Itália. Espécie de resumão alegórico dos anos 60 que encerra a década, passa do colonialismo ainda vigente na África, Ásia e América Latina, passando pela recente morte de Che Guevara e das ditaduras de Salazar, Franco, América Latina, até chegar nas batalhas pelos direitos civis dos negros nos EUA, é mesmo um saladão de tudo que aconteceu naquela década politicamente. BlurayRip no MakingOff.

A masterpiece.

English Policiy!!! a Story of Colonialism!!!

77.125

The evils of sugar writ large.

Have seen now the English-language export version (108:09 min) and Domestic Italian version (123:42 min). Both are absolutely fantastic. Pontecorvo teams up with Brando and superproducer Alberto Grimaldi and adds to the winning formula of "battle of Algiers" big budget and spectacle. Evaristo Marquez and the cast of non-professional actors gives this movie a (what was then known to be a third world) now a developing country authenticity to the story.

Disappointing. I had very high hopes this after seeing Pontecorvo's magnificent "Battle of Algiers," but this is nowhere near as vibrant or as daring. The politics are heavy and slugglishly ponderous, Brando is an ok antihero but he's done better. Some of the battle sequences are good, but the flashes of brilliance are too few.