Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. "Sorcerer" sure is an odd duck of a movie. The best thing you can say about it is it's not like anything else. The title implies some sort of fantasy/science fiction element, of which there is none. It's based on a 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud, "The Wages of Fear," and was made into a well-regarded 1953 French-Italian movie of the same name (unseen by me). The story is four desperate men driving trucks loaded with volatile dynamite through the South American jungle, so the movie is closer thematically to "Convoy" than "Wizards," both roughly contemporaneous films.
Sorcerer (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. "Sorcerer" sure is an odd duck of a movie. The best thing you can say about it is it's not like anything else. The title implies some sort of fantasy/science fiction element, of which there is none. It's based on a 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud, "The Wages of Fear," and was made into a well-regarded 1953 French-Italian movie of the same name (unseen by me). The story is four desperate men driving trucks loaded with volatile dynamite through the South American jungle, so the movie is closer thematically to "Convoy" than "Wizards," both roughly contemporaneous films.