Painting Your Wagon is a 1969 musical film starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg. The film was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from 1951 Paint Your Wagon musical by Lerner and Loewe. It's set in a mining camp in the Gold Rush-era California. It was directed by Joshua Logan.
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Plot
When a carriage hit a ravine, prospect Ben Rumson found two adult male inhabitants, his brother, one of whom died and the other had broken arms and legs. When burying a dead man, gold dust is found on the grave site. Ben staked his claim on land and adopted a surviving brother as his "Pardner" while he was recovering.
Pardner is innocent and romantic, illustrated by her singing a love song about a girl named Elisa ("I'm Still Seeing Elisa"), which she later admits only in her imagination. Pardner was a farmer hoping to get enough gold money to buy land, and was suspicious of Ben who was drunk and apparently immoral. Ben claims that while he is willing to fight, steal, and cheat on cards, his ethical system does not allow him to betray his spouse. Ben will share the spoils of prospecting on condition that Pardner takes care of him in moments of intoxication and melancholy.
After the gold discovery, "No Name City" emerged as a tent city with miners alternating between wild parties (" Hands I Dropped That Can be o 'Beans ") and melancholy attacks (" They Call the Wind Maria "). People became frustrated by the lack of female friendship, so the arrival of a Mormon, Jacob Woodling, with two wives was enough to attract the attention of the entire city. The miners persuaded Woodling to sell one of his wives to the highest bidder. Elizabeth, Jacob's younger and more rebellious wife, agreed to sell on the grounds that whatever she got, it should not be as bad as what she has today.
A drunkard, Ben, gets the highest bid for Elizabeth. Ben was prepared for marriage by another miner ("Whoop-Ti-Ay "), and married Elizabeth under "mining law," with Ben awarded the exclusive right to "all his mineral resources." Elizabeth , not content to be treated as a property, threatened to shoot Ben on their wedding night if he was not treated with respect. While he believes Ben is not the type that really settles, it's acceptable if he builds the right wooden cabin to give him security when he's gone. Ben, impressed by Elizabeth's determination, enlists the miners to keep this promise, and Elizabeth rejoices in owning the right house ("A Million Miles Away Behind the Door").
Feeling the other miners become obsessed with him, Ben is consumed by jealousy and paranoia. The news came from the delayed arrival of "six French Tarts" to a neighboring city and plans to hatch to kidnap the women and take them to "No Name City" (" There's Coach Comin 'In "), thus providing other miners with female friendship. Ben heads up the mission and leaves Elizabeth in Pardner's care. Both fall in love ("I Talk to Trees"), where Elizabeth, says she also still loves Ben, assuring them that "if a Mormon man can have two wives, why can not a woman have two husbands?
As the city progressed, the arrangements with Ben, Pardner, and Elizabeth went well for a while. But soon the city became big enough so that civilized people from the East began to settle there. A minister begins making a definite effort to persuade people from No Name City to abandon their evil ways, warning the townspeople that they will be swallowed up by God's wrath if they do not repent (" Gospel Without a Town Name "). When gold was played, Ben and a group of miners discovered that gold dust fell through the floor boards of many saloons. They do a tunnel under all businesses to get gold (" The Best Things in Life Are Dirty ").
Meanwhile, a group of new settlers were rescued from the snow, and stalled families were invited to spend the winter with Elizabeth and Pardner, who were assumed to be her only husband. Ben is left to fend for himself (" Wand'rin 'Star "). In retaliation, he introduced one of the family, the naive young Horton Fenty, to enjoy the sedan house and the Rotten Luck Willie cat. This caused Elizabeth to reject Ben and Pardner from the log cabin. Pardner took to gamble at Willie's (" Gold Fever "). During a bull and a bear battle, the streets collapsed into the tunnels dug by Ben and others and the city was destroyed. The Reaper of " Gospel of the Unnamed City " acts as a city literally swallowed by the earth.
Ben left for another gold field, commenting that he never knew Pardner's real name, which Pardner later revealed: Sylvester Newel. Elizabeth and Pardner are at peace and are planning to stay.
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Cast
- Lee Marvin as Ben Rumson
- Clint Eastwood as Sylvester Newel/"Pardner"
- Jean Seberg as Elizabeth
- Harve Presnell as Rotten Luck Willie
- Ray Walston as Duncan's "Mad Jack"
- Tom Ligon as Horton Fenty
- Alan Dexter as The Parson
- William O'Connell as Horace Tabor
- Ben Baker as Haywood Holbrook
- Alan Baxter as Mr. Fenty
- Paula Trueman as Mrs Fenty
- Robert Easton as Atwell
- Geoffrey Norman as Foster
- H.B. Haggerty as Steve Bull
- Terry Jenkins as Joe Mooney
- Karl Bruck as Schermerhorn
- John Mitchum as Jacob Woodling
- Sue Casey as Sarah Woodling
- Eddie Little Sky as a Native American (Originally credited as "Indian")
- Harvey Parry as Higgins
- H. W. Gim as Wong
- William Mims as a veiled man
- Roy Jenson as Hennessey
- Pat Hawley as Clendennon
Music number
All songs written by Lerner and Loewe unless otherwise stated.
- "I'm on My Way" - Chorus
- "I'm Still Seeing Elisa" - Pardner
- "First Things You Know" (Lerner/Previn) - Ben
- "Hand Me Down That Can o 'Beans" - Chorus includes Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- "They Call the Wind of Mary" - Rotten Luck Willie, Choir
- "Whoop-Ti-Ay!" - Choir
- "One Million Miles Away Behind the Door" (Lerner/Previn) - Elizabeth
- "I Talk to the Trees" - Pardner
- "There's Coach Comin 'In" - Rotten Luck Willie, Choir
- "The Gospel of the Unnamed City" (Lerner/Previn) - Parson
- "The Best" (Lerner/Previn) - Ben, Mad Jack, Pardner
- "Wand'rin 'Star" - Ben, Choir
- "Gold Rush" (Lerner/Previn) - Pardner, Choir
- "Finale (I'm on My Way)" - Ben, Mad Jack, Chorus
Difference between movie stage and version
Chayefsky provides a significantly changed storyline from the music version of the stage. In the movie "Rumson City" is simply called "No Name City," and Ben Rumson has no daughters. In the stage show, "Elisa" is the wife Ben left behind, but in the movie, she is Pardner's fantasy. The character "Julio" was replaced by "Pardner", now an American partner and Ben in gold claims. In addition, in the film is Pardner who falls in love with Elizabeth, Ben's wife under mining law, rather than stage musician Edgar Crocker. The temporary solution to a love triangle between Ben, Pardner and Elizabeth only appears in the movie as well. In the stage version, Ben Rumson died at the end; in the movie he survives.
Production
Lee Marvin received the lead role instead of appearing on The Wild Bunch. He received $ 1 million while Eastwood paid $ 750,000. Faye Dunaway rejected Elizabeth's role before Seberg was elected. Diana Rigg and Julie Andrews are also considered for this role. Eastwood and Marvin perform their own singing while the Seberg songs are nicknamed. The original incarnation of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has a cameo in the song "Hand Me Down That Can o 'Beans". Several songs from original music were dropped and some added by Alan Jay Lerner and AndrÃÆ' Â © Previn, while others were used in different contexts.
Paint Your Wagon shot near Baker City, Oregon with filming starting in May 1968 and ending in October. Other locations include Big Bear Lake, California, and San Bernardino National Forest; the interior was filmed at Paramount Studios with Joshua Logan directing. The film's initial budget was $ 10 million, before it finally doubled to $ 20 million. The $ 80,000 daily fee takes place to transport players and crew to the set, as the nearest hotel is nearly 60 miles away. The complicated camp used in this movie costs $ 2.4 million to build it.
The film was released at a time when the musical will go out of fashion, especially with the younger audience. Excessive budget and almost 3 hours long became famous in the media. Eastwood was frustrated by a long delay in filming, then said that the experience reinforced his determination to become a director. According to Robert Osborne, Marvin drank a lot during filming, which may have enhanced his screen display, but caused delays and many retakes.
Release
Paint Your Wagon was released in US theaters in October 1969. The film became Paramount's sixth greatest success to date (and the sixth best-selling movie of 1969) when it earned $ 31.6 million for release, though its earnings were not never offset production and marketing costs.
Reception
Critical reception is mostly negative. Your Cat Wagon currently maintains a 27% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
In the UK, the Paint Your Wagon held a 70-week road show held at The Astoria Theater in London, and Marvin's "Marxist" song in "Wand'rin 'Star," accompanied by a movie choir, became the number one hit. His voice was described by Jean Seberg as "like a rushing rain in a rusty pipe". Interviewed NPR, Marvin said that the song was a hit in Australia, and someone there described it as, "The first 33/3 were recorded at 45."
References
- Notes
- References
- Hughes, Howard (2009). Heart Shot. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 978-1-84511-902-7. You
- Munn, Michael (1992). Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Loner . London: Robson Books. ISBNÃ, 0-86051-790-X. You
- Parish, James Robert (2006). Fiasco - A History of Iconic Flops Hollywood . Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & amp; Children. page 359 pages. ISBN: 978-0-471-69159-4. you
External links
- Your Cat Wagon on IMDb
- Your Cat Wagon in AllMovie
- Your Cat Wagon in Mojo Box Office
- Your Cat Wagon at Rotten Tomatoes
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