Renegade
by Jan Kounen
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Actor: Ernest Borgnine, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison, Vincent CasselDirector: Jan Kounen
Brand: CASSEL,VINCENT
Writer: Jan Kounen
Writer: Alexandre Coquelle
Writer: Carlo De Boutiny
Writer: Cassidy Pope
Writer: Gérard Brach
Writer: Jean Giraud
Writer: Jean-Michel Charlier
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Renegade
Movie Review: A Western of the Mind
Summary: 5 Stars
The real star of the movie Renegade, originally called: Blueberry, is the Native American shaman named: Runi. He represents the best of the mystical Native Americans and in contrast to him the American white man is seen as truly insane. Because of this I would imagine that most American white people will not like this movie. Its creator, the Frenchman Jan Kounen, obviously went out of his way to show the white man as chain-smoking alcoholics. It seems that every white man in this movie is continually either smoking cigarettes or drinking hard liquor or whoring in the local whorehouse saloon or all of the above. Their greed and prejudice knows no limits and it is obviously that Jan Kounen wants to make it clear that Native Americans, at their best, live in harmony with nature and because of this are more worthy of the lands the white man has stolen with their lies, treachery and hypocrite religions leading the way for a mass desecration of the lands they have stolen. While watching this movie I am reminded of my studies into early America. If I remember correctly, in the early days the main thing America was exporting to the rest of the world was tobacco and hard liquor. Is it any wonder that in Western movies you see people drinking lots of hard liquor and smoking cigarettes? Chances are the movie Renegade gives a more realistic view of just how chain-smoking drunken the American white man was in the wild west towns of the old west.
This movie gives an accurate portrayal of how traumatic events of youth can scar a person for the rest of his life. The sheriff, Mike Blueberry, was raised by both the white man and the powerful Native American shaman family. He was a white man who had a foot clearly in both worlds which made him much of a stranger to either world. If he didn't chain smoke and drink like an alcoholic chances are the whites would not have accepted him at all.
The more I watch this film the more I appreciate it especially with the subtitles on. It is masterfully filmed and Jan Kounen is obviously among the great cinematic geniuses of our time. This is truly the El Topo western film of the 21st century and I would recommend this to anyone with a mind who can get past his ingrained white man sense of superiority over other races.
Today I happened to study the small credits at the end and found that the director Jan Kounen played Billy, the town idiot in the film. Amazing to consider that the town idiot was actually the creator of that entire cinematic reality, in disguise. It kind of makes me wonder about the reality we experience on a daily basis. Could the creator of our personal reality be the idiot we all see every time we look in a mirror?
Summary of Renegade
In 1870's, a U.S. Marshall named Mike S. Blueberry becomes the sheriff of the town of Palomito where a number of shady figures including the man who killed his girlfriend, and a German Baron search for gold.Genre: Westerns
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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