Word: underlayers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Though Bob Rafelson's film has epic scope, its attitudes are anything but those of the conventional epic. Yet somehow it conveys, as few movies ever have, the miserable realities that underlay the 19th century's heroic age of exploration. Since it bravely takes up a subject remote from the interests of most of the modern audience, the film itself has about it the air of a grand, ferocious folly. Precisely because it is a high-risk venture in a low-risk movie climate, it deserves one's startled gratitude...