Forgotten Bruce Willis West

Although the summer season of 1988, the 1988 film will not officially start before Ron Howard Lucas “Verbas”, a movie, a long -standing spectacle after the transfer of extraordinarily weak spring (under the guidance “And” Moonstru “) looking forward a few weeks before this start and wondered which of the great offers of the studios would be satisfied as” untouchable “,” robocop “and” “Predator”. Against the backdrop of the overexity, mostly unmatched sequels were two seemingly confident (Robert Zemekis, which made Roger Rabbit “and Eddie Murphy’s vehicle” coming to America “) and accelerating the original stars in the area. .

And then it was “to die”.

As you most likely you know, John Macternan’s classic originally viewed some as a stupidity based on a curious solution of Fox 20th Century Fox Pay TV Star Bruce Willis Then a hefty $ 5 million to hope to become the next table or Schwarzenger. So far, Willis has been shot in only one movie “The Black Edwards Romantic Comedy” of the Blind Date, which received lousy reviews, with a $ 39 million for $ 16 million. Given that it opened a week ahead of the most spoken television event of the season (ie episode of “lunar lighting”, in which Willis and Sibil Sibil finally launched two years of throwing sexual tensions), in the ordinary wisdom that Willis failed make a jump on the star on the big screen.

It made the “die” massive roller for bones For Fox, the one that will not be called before the film’s release in July. But three months later, with his opening, Willis had a chance to attract the hopes of the studio, shot in a bilateral bilateral movement that played with the legend of Western Louman White Ep. How did it work out?

While the “blind date” was absolutely a misfire with Blake Edwards, he at least revealed how to make Gliba David Addison work in the movies. He just needed to find the necessary material, what was not the case was not so stupid. Perhaps try to tilt the innate commitment to Willis.

Another romantic comedy could make the trick, but Edwards was in a sentimental mood after the “blind date”. Working from the unpublished novel of the family of Amato (which would bless the synefils in the world in 1987 as director and co -authorship of “The Sarbage Pain Kids Kids Kids Comedy, in which Silent Western Star Tom Mix (Willis) is combined with a true Wyatt Earp (James Garner ) to decide the murder.

It seems fun, huh? Although at the time he was lowered for being fascinated and unreasonable, I think he has his moments. The opening scene in Willis, which acts as a mixture in the unnamed Western, has several extraordinary horse tricks (some waterfalls are incredibly rough), and sometimes it is nice to see how Willis and Garner interact as two very different types of legends. However it was not a pleasure for Garner who said his co -author In an interview with 1994 with Movieline:

“Willis is a high school. He is not so serious about his work. He believes that he is so smart that he can just walk, make a dialogue and more. I don’t think you work that way.”

While the “sunset” lost critics, everything that was important to Hollywood was what the public thought about the movie. Are they sad and went to their local theaters?

On April 29, 1988, the Tri-Star Pictures released “sunset” and, well, the good news is that it exceeded the only other new movie on the market this weekend: “Mick Harris” “Criteria 2: Main dish” (What, I will say from the hole hint of sarcasm, is a much higher film). The rather terrible news was that it took sixth place on the weekend, coming for films that were in cinemas up to six weeks (including “Colors”, “Above the Law” and “Biloxi Blues”). The bad performance of the film frightened the 20th century Fox, which then removed the Wilis circle from the printed ads for “Die Hard”, listing his name called. It How badly a “sunset” was obtained.

But everyone said that the movie did not hurt the career. Despite the luxurious detail of the 1929 period (which was shot by Edwards and cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond, who is a long way from his skillful work on “Do not look now” by Nicholas Rog), it cost only $ 16 million. This does not mean that anyone was delighted with their miserable 4.6 million dollars, but this is what they received in 1988 for creating a combination of Western/Showbiz Romp – two genres that were very tough at the time. Willis continued to become one of the largest movie stars in the world, Garner worked when he wanted to work (killing the hit in 1994. Opposite Gibson and Jodi Foster in Maverick), and Edwards bounced back in 1989 (at least) with a sexy comedy Ribald “Skin Deep”.