The Beguiled
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Movie Reviews of The Beguiled
Movie Review: the hens show the rooster whose boss.
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellently realised film focusing on the mysterious, erotically charged tension between men and women, particularly a houseful of multigenerational women who have not enjoyed the company of a man for some time. Set in a wonderfully isolated girls-only boarding house in the deep civil-war-torn south filled with plenty of sordid, make that extra sordid, skeletons in those dank, musty closets!
Geraldine page rules the film (and the exceptional ensemble cast) as the head mistress/owner/control queen (of ALL time-OKAY!) whose life unravels as one ugly secret peels away to reveal yet another more twisted detail. She tries in vain to control her brood of females, many of who have fallen for the very handsome and badly wounded soldier who they have rescued from the battle field...wonderfully played(to the hilt)by Clint Eastwood (at his sexiest). While in recovery,Clint's soldier works his manipulative charms on several of the comely young females which conflicts with the head mistress' master plan for him and that sets in motion a series of tension filled and very dangerous games of seduction, deception and plans going horribly wrong.
Once the lies are discovered, the plot charges full steam ahead to a wonderfully stunning conclusion that will leave you silent. Fortunately, hollywood hasn't felt the need to refilm this extremely UNDERATED gothic psycho-chiller. A perfect film ,in many ways.
Movie Review: ...Of Turtles and Mushrooms
Summary: 5 Stars
This Civil War era gothic is one of the more, if not the best, acting turns of Clint Eastwood's career. It's relative obscurity probably lies in the fact that the film contains little action per se and that Clint's hobbled Union soldier is left to the tender mercies of some apparently helpless Southern belles. At first Eastwood's McB's actions apparently stem from self-preservation-he'd rather bide this time at the genteel girl's finishing school than fester in a Confederate prison. However, the twin devils of lust and power, or lust for power, rears it's ugly head. As McB manipulates the women by meticulously reading their psyches he manages to draw them to his bed. However, his duplicity is slowly unmasked and the wrath of the women is unleashed. "The Beguiled" is both mesmerizing and shocking. The twists and turns of it's story will put you at the edge of your seat. Besides Eastwood the women in the cast are uniformly excellent notably the renowned Geraldine Page as the incestuous head mistress, Elizabeth Hartman as the virginal schoolmarm, and young Pamelyn Ferdin as the girl who initially saves McB but also feels betrayed by him. Eastwood's acting and directing career is uniformly illustrious and you will not get a complete picture unless you've seen "The Beguiled".Movie Review: A EVIL CLINT 5 Stars
The Beguiled is a very strange movie! No not David Lynch or AlejandroJodorowsky strange. I type strange for with the exception of
UNFORGIVEN I have never seen THE MAN play such a dark character,I mean
DARK! Drinking,wanting to perform RAPE??? CLINT what are you doing???
I think he was trying to show Hollywood and his fans there was more
to him than the lone cowboy or the hero detective with the big gun!
the Beguiled is a dark thriller with a SHOCKING ending! I really
love this movie and consider it ONE of his best(so does he in his
interviews)What I love so much is not just the directing,or story
but I love seeing the MAN in a EVIL role! So for you Bronco Billy
fans or Philoe Beddoe stay away!!! For those of you who want to see
Clint lick his lips and grin like the DEVIL while a girl reluctently
takes her clothes off. This is the movie for you! Clint has never been
more WICKED!!!! And has a VERY surprise ending!!!
NOTE:Don't let the LAME cover of the DVD fool you! This is one SCARY
ride! CLINT! OH! CLINT! What the HELL happened! You got EVILLLLL!!!!!
Movie Review: The Betrayed
Summary: 5 Stars
Possibly my favorite of all Eastwood's movies. Interestingly, I've heard that this is the one and only Eastwood film that ever lost money. This may because Eastwood fans want to see him in control. In the 'Beguiled' his efforts to gain control of his situation only enmesh him deeper and deepr in a tangled web of his own making.
I won't try to retell the film. See it. Suffice it to say that Eastwood plays a wounded Yankee soldier taken in by the head mistress and students of a girl's school in Louisiana during the Civil War. Not wanting to be turned over to the Confederates, Eastwood reckons that he can manipulate these horny women to his own advantage...and...for a while, he seems to get away with it. Of course what he does it not only 'bad and wrong' it is downright dangerous and the women see to it that Eastwood plays the full price for his folly.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Movie Review: A Lesson For Us All...
Summary: 5 Stars
A wounded union soldier (living-legend Clint Eastwood) is taken in by a southern girl's academy during the civil war. The women and young girls decide to nurse him back to health before turning him in to the confederacy. Now, all Clint has to do is play it smart, right? I mean, if he's honest and friendly, he'll eventually win their hearts and minds, right? Wellll...., old Clint just can't play it straight. He begins lying and using these women, including the head-mistress, Miss Martha (Geraldine Page). At first, all seems fine, as the women hover around his bedroom like moths to the flame. However, Clint's plan backfires when he decides to take full, physical advantage of his situation. What a moron! Potential heaven quickly becomes hell, as he is undone and ultimately doomed by the women he's betrayed. The moral of the story? When invited to a lavish banquet, don't make a pig of yourself! Sheesh...