Szigmond studied cinema at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest.He worked for five years in a Budapest feature film studio becoming "director of photography".
Together with his friend and fellow student László Kovács, he chronicled the events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest on thirty thousand feet of film and then escaped to Austria shortly afterwards.
___he chronicled the events on thirty thousand feet of film
In 1964 working with a favorite crew which included László Kovács, Jim Enochs, and Ernie Reed, Vilmos shot the European style, neo-noir, black and white film "Summer Children" (aka a Hot Summer Game)which has recently been fully restored digitally for DVD release.
He gained prominence during the 1970s working on Robert Altman's" McCabe & Mrs. Miller" and" The Long Goodbye" ...
On peut lire davantage sur sa maniere de filmer dans un livre d'interviews avec différents cineastes : Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers. University of California Press.
Je devrais peut-etre voir ce film , l'intrigue est inhabituelle pour un western .
"McCabe & Mrs. Miller" , a 1971 Western motion picture starring Warren Beatty, directed by Robert Altman.
One of Altman's typically naturalist films, the director called McCabe an "anti-western film" because the film ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions.
The plot :
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, a gambler named John McCabe arrives in the fictional town of Presbyterian Church, Washington to open a low-class brothel.
McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter. The "legend" of McCabe is propagated largely through gossip on the part of Paddy Sheehan, a local saloon owner notorious for telling tales.
___take a dominant position over the town's miners
___simple-minded
___story propagated through gossip on the part of...
The rumor is that McCabe shot a famous gunfighter named Bill Roundtree with a Derringer pistol during a card game. The legend is neither confirmed nor encouraged by McCabe; he is not seen with such a pistol until the film's conclusion, and is not portrayed as a courageous type, leading the audience to believe that the legend is merely a fabrication.
McCabe establishes his make-shift brothel, consisting of three prostitutes purchased from a pimp in the nearby town of Bearpaw for $200.
___make-shift = a temporary or expedient substitute for something else.
___pimp = One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.
Constance Miller, an opium-addicted professional "madam," arrives in Presbyterian Church. She convinces him that she can do a better job of managing the brothel than he can, as McCabe is clearly inept when dealing with women.
The two become successful business partners, and a love interest develops between these two
frontier-hardened and cynical characters.
___he is inept when dealing with women
___fronteir - hardened
As Presbyterian Church becomes a richer and more successful community, a pair of agents from the Harrison Shaughnessy mining company arrive to buy out McCabe's business as well as the surrounding zinc mines. Harrison Shaughnessy is notorious for having people killed when they refuse to sell.
McCabe doesn't want to sell at their initial price, but he overplays his hand in the negotiations in spite of Mrs. Miller's warnings that he is underestimating the violence that will ensue if they don't take the money and run.
___he overplays his hand
___overplay = overestimate the strength of (one's holding or position) with resulting defeat: overplayed his hand and lost the game.
Three bounty killers are dispatched by the mining company to make an example of McCabe.
___bounty = a reward, inducement, or payment, especially one given by a government for acts deemed beneficial to the state, such as killing predatory animals, growing certain crops, starting certain industries, or enlisting for military service.
The climactic showdown between McCabe and his hunters is unconventional for a Western.
___showdown = An event, especially a confrontation, that forces an issue to a conclusion.
McCabe is clearly afraid of the gunmen when they arrive in town. He initially tries to appease them. Finally, when a lethal confrontation becomes inevitable, he manages to kill two of the gunslingers by shooting them in the back from hidden positions, leaving only the most fearsome of the three to deal with.
As a final twist of the plot, McCabe shoots the third bounty killer with a Derringer pistol, confirming that the original gunfighter legend might well have been true. McCabe, however, does not survive.
___twist of the plot
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