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Gold Mountain
USA 2016
produced by Michael Fredianelli for Wild Dogs Productions
directed by Michael Fredianelli
starring Michael Nosé, Michael A. Hernandez II, Jeremy Koerner, Mike Dinsmore, Dick Raley, Michael Fredianelli, Isaiah Catubig, Courtney Shaffer, Danielle Vivion, Brian Marquez, Bob Jones, Maralynn Adams, Stephanie Hancock, Chelsea Childress, Erica Abke, Vernell Jefferson, Joseph Scanlon, Israel Cesar, Ivy Tsang, Chris Hu, Rawena Prasad, Linda Hao, Jenny Shi, Peter Stylianos, Sami Yousif
written by Michael Fredianelli
silent
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The San Francisco gold rush from 1849: Chinaman Chan (Michael Nosé)
has just made it to American shores with the idea to get rich but little
to no idea how while Mexican Jorge (Michael A. Hernandez II) and his son
Fernando (Israel Cesar) hafe found a rock of gold they can hardly lift
between the two of them ... and somehow, they meet in a watering hole that
doesn't serve foreigners, are humiliated, and ultimately the place is
raided by outlaw Burt Carrows (Jeremy Koerner), and chaos ensues, at the
end of which both the rock of gold and Fernando are gone, much to the
dismay of Jorge. But Chan, realising there's a chance to get rich quick,
promises to help Jorge find his son ... in return for half the gold of
course. But they're not really good at tracking the boy and are soon
enslaved by a local farmer, and once they've made their escape, they find
pretty much everyone's on their trail - including the ku klux klan, and
Burt Carrows, the very man they were after originally ... Filmed
in black and white and with no on-screen sound (apart from the occasional
sound effect) and set to music primarily from the 1920s, this is easy to
decipher as an hommage to silent slapstick cinema. But Gold Mountain
goes further than leaving it at superficialities, the slapstick humour of
this movie is also refreshingly old-fashioned and the direction limits
itself to yesteryear's techniques - without looking a tiny bit dated.
What's best about this movie though is its anything-goes mentality,
telling its story without any restraints, be it by narrative logic or
political correctness or even laws of nature, it's just a film that seems
terribly happy to tell its warped story, and all of the involved seem to
have had great fun, something that's really infectuous. So yeah, prepare
to laugh a lot!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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