The Proposition is the band's first (and only) original screenplay for Bad Seeds, and it's a bloodthirsty work.
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Key Agreement poster
"It's going to be a violent movie," Nick Cave said when he debuted after he was involved in completing the film's script. "You're going to expect some violence."
And such a movie with a wild Australian Western atmosphere, "Key Agreement", also lived up to expectations. In one scene in the film, a young man is whipped 60 times on his scaly back after being abused to the point of unconsciousness in the town square.
Key Deal starred Geipers as a jungle hunter
Directed by John Hillcott – released in 2005 – the film follows three bush fugitive brothers who run amok in a remote Australian town in the late nineteenth century.
But after his brother is arrested by the shrewd Captain Stanley (Reverston), Charlie (Gapils) has to make a choice: hunt down and kill his brother Arthur (Danny Houston) or watch his brother be executed.
It's a fearless and poetic ode, but it gets even more interesting just as you think about who conceived the script for the story for what reason.
Bad Seeds lead singer Nick Cave was originally only responsible for the soundtrack of the film, but the screenplay of the original film did not satisfy the director Hilcot enough, so Nick Cave invited his old friend to take over the screenwriting job.
Three weeks later, the new script for "Key Deal" was completed, and the two received a $2 million budget to bring the images they envisioned to the screen.
Stills from "Key Deals" by Richard Wilson, Geipers and Danny Houston
"It was because of John that Australia had its own Western feature film," Cave said at one point.
"There's a 'Wild West' that hasn't been brought to the screen, and there's never been a film about that period. In addition to some famous Australian biographical films, such as australian household names - Ned Kelly and Mad Dog Morgan and other stories, so the subject is still a blue ocean. ”
Stills from "Key Agreements"
As a business card of the Australian countryside, the Key Agreement is unparalleled. Against the backdrop of a soft fuchsia sky, Charlie's mission slowly turns into brutal barbarism in the beautiful Australian landscape.
Occasionally, Cave uses black humor to ease tension, such as Stanley's superior, Eden Fletcher (David Wernham), who describes a corpse pierced by a spear as a hedgehog. But most of the time it was a ruthless and brutal film
Although it is a work starring Guy Pierce throughout the film, the bounty hunter Jerón Lamb, played by John Hurt, is impressive enough that although he did not have a long screen time, he can be said to be one of the best performances of the deceased actor.
"Ohhh Danny boy, the flies the flies are crawling," he chanted drunkenly in recognition of the ubiquitous biting animals of the land. Few films capture the harshness of the desert so realistically, and in the 104 minutes of Key Deal you will have the same urge to drive away mosquitoes, wipe sweat and clean the dirt off your forehead.
Nick Cave
Looking back now at Hillcourt's unique depiction of 19th-century Western Australia, this legacy is indeed preserved, and without it we would not have seen Robert Ford's Death of the Sharpshooter, a western work that was better played by Brad Pitt a year later.
Cowboy's dashing and cheerful feud appears in both works, but it is the music of Cave and partner Warren Ellis that allows fans to link the two films together.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
After working on the immersive folk songs in their Key Deal, Pitt's producers quickly hired two composers for his 2007 films, such as Rather Lovely Thing, Falling, and the subsequent Collection of Music," "The Road," "Hell or High Water," and "Wind River," all based on his scoring performances in Key Deal.
Unfortunately, Cave is not as keen on screenwriting as it is for composing, and the 63-year-old says he doesn't "see what it means to create works on screen," commenting that his work on Key Agreements is something he can no longer enjoy (without understanding the "limitations of shooting" and "too expensive").
If the 2012 film "Lawlessness," adapted from author Matt Bondurant's film on the subject of bootlegging alcohol, really became the last screenplay in which Cave participated, it needs to be remembered forever.
Reference：
https://www.nme.com/features/the-proposition-nick-cave-2892346
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