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El Topo (Spanish: [el ˈto.po], "The Mole") is a 1970 Mexican acid Western film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Judeo-Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy , the film is about El Topo—a violent ...
Apr 15, 1971 · El Topo: Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. With Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau. A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
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Oct 6, 2007 · What is El Topo seeking in the desert? Why, he is seeking symbols, images, bizarre people and events, with which to fill the film. The ceaseless shocking images on the screen, are what made "El 'Topo" an underground hit in one New York theater for months in 1970.
A black-clad gunfighter (Alejandro Jodorowsky) embarks on a symbolic quest in an Old West version of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Jul 23, 2020 · Creating a whole new sub-genre, the so-called ‘acid western’, El Topo is a heady, arguably at times unwatchable, brew of Chinese philosophy, Zen Buddhism, astrology, Sufism, European ...
Jodorowsky’s hero, El Topo (the mole) devotes his life to a spaced-out quest that’s first cousin to the journeys in the Ring trilogy, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” maybe “ Easy Rider ,” certainly “2001,” and most obviously to the goalless, introspective missions of Eastwood’s Man with No Name.
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters. El Topo decides to confront warrior masters on a transformative desert journey. He begins with his six-year-old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
Feb 12, 2013 · Original 1970 trailer for EL TOPO, from the renowned filmmaker and father of the midnight movie, Alejandro Jodorowsky. Famously, John Lennon and Yoko Ono discovered El Topo in 1969 and were...
May 12, 2015 · El Topo (English translation: The Mole) is a 1970 American-Mexican western film written and directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre...
