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Release Date: 04 March, 2003 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.95! Cast: |
The Wild One Reviews
Cute Bikes and Cute Kids in 1950's Inland California
Contrary to what is seen in the "clips", the film does contain
The Best Line in Film.
The old guy asks Brando "Where are you kids going, anyway?"
Brando: "You don't go anywhere, dad. You just go."
A lot of the film may appear quaint in a world where images of extreme violence, and unchecked self-interest are pervasive - I haven't seen it in well, something like 40 years. I remember it as being a bit dated even in the 60's. But, as a social document, I have a hard time believing that the gulf between what one reviewer here calls "the cast of the Blob" (a good and probably literally accurate ascription) or "Middle America" (as in What's Wrong with Kansas? or Schwarzeneggerville? - Hollister, CA, et al.) and those who seek the "open road", beats, bikers, and other souls who are able to recognize the source human freedom, is any closer to being bridged than it was back in those good ol' days, when we were more innocent and no less benighted.
Not so wild over 50 years later, but worth seeing anyway
THE WILD ONE, though a cult classic, has never really been revered as a great film. Its cult status and respect among movie buffs is due to its influence on pop culture following the film. Marlon Brando and his team of bikers made leather jackets, jeans, and motorbikes the trademarks of rebellion, and because of that, the film is worth seeing. Influence aside, THE WILD ONE isn't such a great film. It hasn't aged well at all. Brando is still cool, however; Johnny Strabler may not be one of his very finest performances, but it's one of his most popular. The best part of the cast is Lee Marvin as the over-the-top leader of a rival motorbike gang calling themselves The Beetles (!). The script is filled with "jive" that now seems laughably silly, but it does contain a classic bit of dialogue, in which a woman asks Johnny Strabler what he's rebelling against. "Whaddya got?" Johnny asks. THE WILD ONE isn't any masterpiece, but it's an influential cult classic that's worth seeing if only for that reason.
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