HAND OF FATE CONTROLS MOVIE

There was a script, but Marvin tossed it. Lee Marvin met him and decided he was the one to direct Point Blank.

HAND OF FATE CONTROLS MOVIE

It’s a unique combination of surrealism, film noir, and ‘60s avant-garde filmmaking by director John Boorman, who’d only made one movie prior to it, and who went on to direct movies such as Hell In The Pacific, Deliverance, and Zardoz. Point Blank has achieved a kind of mythical status in the lore of movie nerds, though it didn’t make much of a splash when it originally opened. Lee Marvin wants his $93,000, and you’d better hand it over, now, or there’s going to be trouble. He’s got one goal, and he will not be distracted from obtaining it.īoth movies in this week’s Mind Control Double Feature star fate itself. You’ll beg and plead, you’ll connive and plot, you might poke him in the eye and run, or get naked and sleep with him. You can’t reason with fate, though you’ll try. If he’s got you in his sights to begin with, forget about it. Lucky for us, we have movies, and in the movies, inevitable doom comes often in a form easily recognized: a guy with a gun.

For all we know, fate could be a frog in a stetson riding a badger. Is fate even a thing? Is it but an idea? Is it death personified, coming for us all? We don’t know. Ah, fate! Inevitable, implacable, industrious, insidious, and many other words that begin with i, it comes for us when we least expect it, grabs us by the throat, and demands some goddamn answers, or else.

Hand of fate controls