One thing that always bothered me was where did they get the instructions to find the invisible swordsman. Was there something I missed?
"60 takes, I didn't see a difference in one of them man."
After they left the town, there was a conversation something like:
"How far do you think we got before we had to go back for directions?"
"About 3 miles."
"Ned, read those directions again."
yeah but the beauty of this movie is that you can over look those things cos the whole movie was just funny, original and hilarious.
With talking/singing animals and a singing bush, invisible swordsman, it's just one of those suspend your disbelief moments where you just don't care about the details because none of it is serious anyway.
"yeah but the beauty of this movie is that you can over look those things cos the whole movie was just funny, original and hilarious."
No capitalization of the beginning of your post indicates the rest of your post will not hold to scrutiny. Let's scrutinize!
There's no beauty in this movie.
The word 'overlook' is one word, not two.
If you want to shorten the word 'because' into ''cause' into ''coz', at least write it correctly, and use a damn apostrophe!
Even if there were some funny bits, the WHOLE movie being funny is just a sinful error to make.
The movie was DEFINITELY not original by any stretch of the word! Obviously you have not seen Seven Samurai (even the name is stolen, because it's the 'number' of 'what') or any other 'village is in trouble' movies.
If anything, this movie, besides its weirdness, was a paint-by-numbers romp where you know exactly what's going to happen, just not in detail in what way. But nothing about this movie is original or surprises the viewer, besides the psychedelic singing animals and bush-stuff maybe. (Kinda hard to see THAT coming)
Saying 'hilarious' after you have just said 'the whole movie is funny', is not only redundant, it destroys what you just said. 'The movie' can't be 'hilarious', if 'the WHOLE MOVIE is funny'.
I mean, 'funny' dominates every atom of the movie, so there is no room for 'hilarious'.
Yep, I was right with my original estimation - NOTHING about your post makes any sense, and you even destroy your own sentiments because you don't have logic that could bring your post even a bit of coherence - a lot like this movie.
"You've killed the invisible swordsman!"
shareIt was one of those plots that was either left out or cut out or never really written by the writers of this Movie. I was the same i used to always wonder how or from who did they get these instruction from and how they knew about the singing Bush or how the Invisible swords man would know the way to El Guapos hideout and how to summon the Swords man. I always just assumed someone in Santo Poco gave them these instructions it was just never shown in the movie which makes more sense.
shareWhen you think about it, how did those instructions come to exist anyway?
WHO could've first of all, figured out all of that, and why and how? If they go THAT FAR to find the base, then why not do anything with that information, except then hand it to some strange gringos?
Why would the villagers know how to get to the bandits' base anyway? Isn't the typical trope that the bandits have a SECRET HIDEOUT and thus, always 'appear out of nowhere' and then 'disappear' so no one can follow them and find their place and kill them? Isn't that one reason why the villagers are always helpless against bandits?
Also, why would mystical forces protect someone like the bandits anyway? Why would singing bushes and invisible swordsmen (whom would they use the sword against anyway?) HELP this bandit by protecting this secret information of how to get to their base, BUT THEN willingly help any stranger wanting to get that information, so what's the point of them even having it?
Can't this base be easily found anyway by following the horse trails? If you can find it by following a plane (and how does this plane find it? Surely someone else must have better instructions if a pilot can find the base without problems, so shouldn't the amigos ask the same people the pilot asked? Weren't they in identical locations anyway, so shouldn't they already have that info?) anyway, then why can't you just find it easily by other NORMAL methods?
Who hired the bush and the invisible swordsman to keep this information only to reveal it to strangers?
Why is it all so complicated, can't there be an easier and more feasible way?
Is this movie telling us some drunkard bandit murderer just somehow arranged an invisible swordsman and a bush.. you know, this makes SO LITTLE sense I get tired.
What's the point of all of it?
In any case, why didn't the invisible swordsman DUCK or get out of the way of Chevy's gun when he was pointing it at him?
Is it certain he KILLED the invisible swordsman?
I mean, isn't it possible he just injured the invisible swordsman, but the invisible swordsman lost consciousness?
Why can animals sing in english in this movie, but yet they're treated as slaves? Wouldn't that make it slavery of sentient beings we're rooting for?
Why do coyotes and pumas or whatever, appear together with prey animals, that they would definitely eat in real life? If they're not eating those animals, then WHAT do these carnivore animals eat?
Heck, even horses would be prey animals for them, large as they are. Why aren't the horses spooked with the presence of carnivore animals?
WHY DOES EVERYONE SING IN ENGLISH INSTEAD OF SPANISH? Not only that, but why english songs, too, instead of mexican songs?
I think you're struggling to appreciate one of the film's best jokes. When Ned reads out the instructions they received we expect him to say something like "3 miles north then due east from the outpost for 5 miles." but instead he reels off a load of fanciful nonsense about a singing bush, a magical chant and an invisible swordsman.
It'd spoil the joke to have some mysterious shaman tell them this, wouldn't it?
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