Word: milius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massacres, heroin addiction, the whole thing. What could be the only fictional film about the indochina War (we exclude The Green Berels, which was so outrageous that French students would systematically take to the streets whenever it opened in a given city, and drive it out of town), under Milius's stern hands, might turn out to be the nightmare film of the century...
...began with the script. There were five in all. Benchley (grandson of Humorist Robert Benchley) says he "lost the ego problem" after completion of the second. He wrote a third draft, which was subsequently reworked by such diverse hands as Playwright Howard Sackler (The Great White Hope), Director John Milius (The Wind and the Lion) and Carl Gottlieb, an actor who had played improvisational comedy with the California-based troupe, The Committee, and who had a small role in the film. The last version was rejiggered nightly out on location...
...WIND AND THE LION. A rambunctious, romantic pageant, filled with sentimental splendors, all about a brave Berber bandit (Sean Connery) and a beautiful American woman (Candice Bergen) of true grit. Writer-Director John Milius has captured both the sweep and the spirit of such classic adventure romances as Four Feathers...
There is an ingenuous charm at work here, the quality of a daydream. All the characters are creatures of the best reveries of childhood. This does not mean that they should be taken lightly. Writer-Director Milius has some distance on his dreams, but he is still absolutely devoted to them. The Wind and the Lion has a view of the glories of combat and courage that is both willful and wistful. All enemies are united in a common bond of honor. Blood shed is never ignoble, always ennobling, and adversaries fight with grace and mutual respect. The movie even...
Writer-Director Milius may be good for even more if this movie is a fair indication. A screenwriter (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean) whose only previous feature was the routine and derivative Dillinger (1973), Milius makes considerable-indeed, amazing- progress here. It has been a long time since Hollywood has produced an adventure as sumptuous as The Wind and the Lion or a fantasy as rich...