'broadsword Calling Danny Boy': Watching 'where Eagles Dare'
Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'
Geoff Dyer
ISBN: | 9780525563082 |
Publisher: | Vintage |
Published: | 19 May, 2020 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Penguin |
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'broadsword Calling Danny Boy': Watching 'where Eagles Dare'
Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'
Geoff Dyer
In Zona, Geoff Dyer—‘one of our most original writers’ (New York)—devoted a whole book to Andrei Tarkovsky’s cult masterpiece, Stalker. Now, in this warm and funny tribute to one of his favorite movies, he revisits the action classic Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure headlined by a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ is Dyer’s hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it’s a scene-by-scene analysis—or should that be send-up?—taking us from the movie’s snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.
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