Cheap The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD) Price
CHEAP-PRICE.NET ’s Cheap Price
$18.89
Here at Cheap-price.net we have The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (Two-Disc Special Edition) at a terrific price. The real-time price may actually be cheaper — click “Buy Now” above to check the live price at Amazon.com.
Even in the studio-truncated version, there was no shortage of astonishing moments and sequences: the squad choking on dust in a bat-filled cave in North Africa as German tanks clatter past the entrance; Fuller's cold-blooded distillation of the D-Day slaughter on Omaha Beach, with a wrist watch on a dead arm in the surf marking time as the water slopping over it grows redder; the rifle squad delivering a Frenchwoman's baby in a German tank on a battlefield full of corpses; a commando-like raid on Nazi troops bivouacked in a Belgian insane asylum. A quarter-century later, film critic Richard Schickel and Warner Bros. executive Brian Jamieson succeeded in restoring 15 never-seen sequences and fleshing out 23 others to create The Big Red One: The Reconstruction, a "new" film nearly an hour longer.
Above all, BR1: The Reconstruction has a rhythm the 1980 cut lacked. The arc of years, battles, and battlegrounds is so much more satisfying. Greater play is given to Fuller's feeling for children caught up in the sidewash of history and atrocity. And the 2004 cut puts sex back into the movie, not orgiastically but as a fact of life and a rarely forgotten driving force. We can see now that Fuller touched, bluntly and shockingly, on the phenomenon of infiltrators--English-speaking German warriors who donned GI khaki and moved among their enemies waiting for a chance to strike.
It's also apparent, as it was not in 1980, that Lee Marvin as the eternal Sergeant leading the young squad is magnificent. This was Marvin's greatest role, rivaled only by his walking dead man in John Boorman's Point Blank. Just beneath the masterly implacability, we glimpse the tenderness, rage, dark humor, experience, and wisdom beyond guilt that have enabled him to survive, to preserve others and to soldier on. His performance, like Fuller's film, is a masterpiece. --Richard T. Jameson
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| FEATURES: | Dolby, Widescreen, Special Edition, Color |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
Related Products
Customer Reviews of The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Pretty good as war movies go As a kid I enjoyed this movie very much. It has some pretty good action sequences and in some parts, you can have true actual feelings for what soldiers go through when in battle. It has a very good ending and I feel it is definitely worth watching when you have the time. One of my favorite war movies.
SAM FULLER'S MASTERPIECE, LEE MARVIN'S BEST PERFORMANCE
BIG RED ONE: The Reconstruction (Warner, $27), Sam Fuller's acclaimed 1980 feature film based on his WW II diary has been restored by critic/filmmaker Richard Schickel.
<
>
<
>Working with over 70,000 feet of film and Fuller's original shooting script, the nearly 50 minutes of new footage adds considerably to the choppy structure of the previous video release. Now the larger theme flows smoothly, beautifully integrated with the more fully fleshed characters.
<
>Lee Marvin as the sergeant of barely-adult riflemen fighting from North Africa to Normandy and across Europe is memorable in what may be his finest performance.
<
>
<
>"The real glory of war," Samuel Fuller said, "is surviving." A decorated combatant with the famed U.S. First Infantry in World War II, Fuller did survive. Now his personal vision of that experience has been revived.
<
>
<
>"The Real Glory: Reconstructing The Big One and "The Men Who Make the Movies: Samuel Fuller" are among the highly watchable extras on this terrific two-disc set.
THE MASTERPIECE OF A TRUE MASTER
Sam Fuller, a veteran of many incredible b-movies, finally made his leap to a-list filmmaking with his world war II epic "The Big Red One". While he didn't have speilberg's budget, his d-day sequence is a textbook on how to create drama with stroytelling devices and camera placement instead of explosions and gore. The gritty nature of the film stock combined with Fuller's B movie sensibilities will make this movie rough around the edges for most modern viewers, but if you allow it the opportunity it will make you laugh, smile, bite your nails, and quite possibly choke up. Episodic in nature the film shows us a group of first infantrymen as they wage world war II in every location. They superb cast is led by Lee Marvin at his absolute best, and Mark Hamill playing a hero facing a kind of evil much more real and much more horrifying than he did in STAR WARS(notice this in the final scenes). This movie has many scenes that are simply unforgettable.