I pulled them off but some of them hand already began to burrow, when I pulled them out, their legs were left in my hand twitching. Few nights ago, I had a dream that I hit a tick nest (not sure if that is a real thing) and I had tons of ticks burrowing into my hand. Anything that burrows into your body and sucks your blood scares the shit out of me. I have a crazy fear of ticks, they are horrifying.
There is one scene where Williem Dafoe is sleeping with his hand outside a cracked window and he wakes up to tons of ticks on his hand. I have to share my crazy nightmare from it. I wrote a blog posting about Antichrist directed by Lars Von Trier a week ago. Oh and Iggy Pop plays a back woods bandit in drag… They do not take you out of the story but engages you to wonder what is happening to Blake. Jim Jarmusch is subtle with William Blake’s surrealist moments in nature. What kept me intrigued was what would happened to William Blake and Nobody. The director Jim Jarmusch is famous for his indie quirky films and was able to successfully transfer his style into “Dead Man”. “Dead Man” created a different spin on the typical western. William Blake’s only chance for surviving is based on if he embraces the teachings by Nobody. Nobody not only tends to his wound, but also protects and teaches him about spirituality. Nobody acts as his guide since there is nothing else to do with this white man. Bill is a dead man walking he should have been killed by his wound, has no skills to survive in the wildness, and now has a bounty on his head. A bounty is placed on Blake and three bandits start tracking him. Bill soon wakes up to a Native American named Nobody tending to his wounds. A piece of the bullet that hit the woman penetrated near Blake’s heart and he passes out while escaping. Both are dead and Blake has no idea what to do other then run. The woman shoots her estrange lover who is also pulling out his own pistol and fires. He spends the night with a woman and is caught in a love triangle. The accountant job was fulfilled months ago and Blake is broke in a new city with no job.
He is fragile, weak and does not belong in the Wild West. Blake is surprised and disgusted by the new frontier with its dirtiness and rugged lifestyle. Johnny Depp is William Blake, a city boy from Cleveland who arrives at the small town named Machine to take an accountant job. The most recent successful western “Django Unchained” by Tarantino was excellent and will be followed up by another western soon called “The Hateful Eight.” Back in 1996, indie writer and director Jim Jarmusch created an independent surrealist western called “Dead Man”, and surprisingly, it didn’t suck. “Cowboys and Aliens” attempted at sci-fi and western and fucked up, and “Wild Wild West” was… giant metal spiders? I don’t even know… There are few who are doing it right. Maybe the cinema world expanded on this formula too much, maybe it’s hard to find new original western ideas, or maybe we are just “over” westerns? Some directors are starting to cross westerns with other genres, “A Million Ways to Die in the West” failed at combining western with heavy comedy. The tension caused by these two elements coming together is what westerns focus on. Most westerns contain this main formula: wilderness vs. At one point in America’s culture, we could not get enough of westerns and John Wayne. Why do we hate westerns now? The western genre is one of the few genres dying.