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Blind Justice (1994) |
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Neo-spaghetti western in which a blind gunfighter saves the
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day. This
film is so bad you won't believe it was made in |
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1994, and
regarding the antics of the blind gunfighter it goes |
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beyond the
nonsense in "Scent of a Woman". |
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Daniel Knauf
the screenwriter emailed me and kindly didn't come down on me like a ton
of bricks. Part of his comments follows: |
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' Unlike
"Scent of a Woman" or "The Miracle Worker," "BJ" |
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was never
intended to be a realistic drama portraying the trials |
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of the
disabled. I thought this was obvious. The log-line "A |
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blind
gunfighter" can only fall into 2 possible genres: farce or
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fantasy. My
attempt fell more into the later, comic-book mold |
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of "Iron
Man" or "Daredevil." |
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Specifically, it was a Western riff on the Japanese "Zatoichi:
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The Blind
Samurai" films of the '60s and '70s. |
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It was not
my intention to depict--nor do I think the audience at |
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large
construed "BJ" as--anything resembling the realistic |
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tribulations
borne by the blind.' |
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Notes
See interview with Daniel Knauf at
The
Screenwriters Utopia
See also
www.unmovies.com |
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