{"id":221,"date":"2016-10-20T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:13:33","slug":"movie-paint-your-wagon-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/movie-paint-your-wagon-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Paint Your Wagon (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/1\/10\/Original_movie_poster_for_the_film_Paint_Your_Wagon.jpg\/215px-Original_movie_poster_for_the_film_Paint_Your_Wagon.jpg\" alt=\"Paint Your Wagon\" width=\"215\" height=\"332\" \/>Paint Your Wagon<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYear: 1969<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 166 minutes \/ 2.77 hours<\/p>\n<p>My first exposure to the musical western that is <em>Paint Your Wagon<\/em> (1969) was from the 9th season clip show of <em>The Simpsons<\/em> entitled &#8220;All Singing, All Dancing.&#8221; In the episode, Bart and Homer are looking forward to a shoot-&#8217;em-up western with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin. Instead, they are shocked to find that the film is actually a musical. While the actual film itself did not contain any of the bits from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VM5-xFenaZI\">The Simpsons<\/a><\/em>, part of me wished it did . . . or at least an explanation as to why the title is <em>Paint Your Wagon<\/em>. Needless to say, I knew going into this film that it was going to be a musical, and I was prepared for that.<\/p>\n<p>One does wonder if the musical hides topics and themes that aren&#8217;t really that appropriate in a non-musical setting. I&#8217;m not sure this film was comedic enough to have polygamy, greed, and debauchery as its main themes without interspersing some songs throughout for buffer. I do know that this film wouldn&#8217;t be almost three hours long if it was missing its songs. Case in point, the George Bernard Shaw play, <em>Pygmalion<\/em> (1938) is only 90 minutes, whereas the exact same plot that appears in\u00a0<em>My Fair Lady<\/em> (1964) is three hours long.<\/p>\n<p>I do admit that I was shocked to find Clint Eastwood had such a lovely singing voice, but it wasn&#8217;t nearly enough to save this film for me. One or two of the songs were memorable (&#8220;They Call the Wind Maria&#8221; and &#8220;Wand&#8217;rin&#8217; Star&#8221; in particular),\u00a0but I don&#8217;t think they justify a whole film. Part of me almost thinks, if you want a western-themed musical, you might be better off with <em>The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas<\/em> (1982) or (even better) <em>Seven Brides for Seven Brothers<\/em> (1954). As for me, I think I&#8217;ll stick with the version presented in <em>The Simpsons<\/em> for now.<\/p>\n<p>Not your standard Clint Eastwood western, I give <em>Paint Your Wagon<\/em> 2.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paint Your Wagon Year: 1969 Rating: PG-13 Length: 166 minutes \/ 2.77 hours My first exposure to the musical western that is Paint Your Wagon (1969) was from the 9th season clip show of The Simpsons entitled &#8220;All Singing, All Dancing.&#8221; In the episode, Bart and Homer are looking forward to a shoot-&#8217;em-up western with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[209,134,211,213,210,212,214],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-0-stars","category-movie","tag-209","tag-clint-eastwood","tag-lee-marvin","tag-musical","tag-paint-your-wagon","tag-the-simpsons","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}