Namwene Mukabwa is a Kenyan writer, TV producer, budding filmmaker, and adjunct professor who got hooked on screens at 9 when his dad bought the family's first TV. He enjoys soccer and sampling music.
The Big Picture There are films you see and you are left bewildered. Dennis Hopper's 1971 Western, The Last Movie, is one such film. The Last Movie's somewhat confusing use of flashforwards and flashbacks, non-linear structure, "missing scene" texts, jump cuts, and juxtaposition of realism and fiction defies every rule of traditional storytelling. With a plot centering around a movie within a movie, the film is an opulent disarray.
The Last Movie takes thirty minutes from its start before the title sequence appears. In the intervening time, there is action with speaking roles and Western-style battle sequences, most notably one involving the characters of renowned real-life Wild West villainous outlaws Billy the Kid , Charlie Bowdre , and lawman Pat Garrett .
As per Life, as soon as Hopper arrived, he was caught up in a local conflict when a priest sold to his crew roofing tiles that belonged to the local community. It created a big dispute that led to the priest being chased around the village, and Hopper diplomatically settled it by offering a second payment to the community. On the day the cast arrived, the Life article reports, "Almost 30 members of the company were sniffing coke, or had turned on with grass, acid or speed.
'The Last Movie's Post-Production Took a Toll on Dennis Hopper Close As per Esquire, Hopper had used some of his money from the success of Easy Rider to purchase an estate in Taos, New Mexico. It had a 22-room house, part of which he converted into a studio that he dubbed "The Mud Palace". He lived in the house with the editors he had hired to find his two-hour story from the dozens of hours he had filmed.
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