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May 10, 1996 · William Blake, a meek accountant, kills a man and flees from bounty hunters in the late-1800s. He meets Nobody, a Native American spirit-guide, and embarks on a mystical journey to the spirit world.
- Jim Jarmusch
- 385
- 2 min
Jun 28, 1996 · A review of the 1996 film "Dead Man" by Jim Jarmusch, starring Johnny Depp as a man named William Blake who travels to the Western town of Machine and meets an Indian named Nobody. The reviewer analyzes the film's themes, characters, and style, and compares it to the mystical poet William Blake and the American Indians.
A film about a meek accountant who becomes a fugitive and a killer in the Wild West, and encounters a mysterious Native American spirit-guide. The plot summary provides different versions of the story, with themes of transformation, spirituality, and fate.
A period piece that imagines the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, Dead Man follows the accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) who is wounded and on the lam in a remote outpost of Machine. He is guided by the outcast Nobody (Gary Farmer), who teaches him to dispense poetic justice and to face the cycle of life and death.
- William Blake
A black-and-white movie about a mild-mannered accountant (Johnny Depp) who becomes a gunslinger in the Old West. Critics praise its originality and style, while audiences are divided on its surreal and metaphysical elements.
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With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country’s legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) has hardly arrived in the godforsaken outpost of Machine before he ...
