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The Proposition [Blu-ray] [2006] [DVD]

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Guy Pearce (Actor), Ray Winstone (Actor), John Hillcoat (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, John Hurt, David Wenham
  • Directors: John Hillcoat
  • Format: Colour
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Palisades Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 25 Jan. 2010
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0015YY6SM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,698 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) captures fugitive Burns brothers Charley (Guy Pearce) and Mikey (Richard Wilson) at the scene of bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur (Danny Huston), in order to be set free, Stanley drags Mikey to a decrepit jailhouse while he waits for Charley to carry out the deed...

<Kp>Director John Hillcoat's second collaboration with melancholic musician Nick Cave (here contributing the film's screenplay and soundtrack), is a taut character study of desperation amid the mesmerising backdrop of the 19th century Australian outback.

Special Features

  • Making Of Featurette
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Widescreen 2.35:1 1080 Resolution
  • DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 / Dolby TrueHD 5.1
  • Languages - English
  • Disc - BD25

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Based on a screenplay from Nick Cave, The Proposition is a slow, thoughtful, brutal and diligent western, that rightly mopped up numerous awards back in its native Australia.

It starts when Ray Winstone’s Captain Stanley makes an unpopular deal with a much-wanted outlaw, Charlie Burns, played by Guy Pierce. Charlie has two brothers: an innocent younger sibling (Mikey), and a heavily wanted older one (Arthur). The Captain takes the younger one into custody on threat of hanging, giving Charlie a matter of days to bring his older brother in.

That’s the core proposition that gives the film its title, yet what really makes the film is its willingness to explore the details. How do the townsfolk feel when they find out Captain Stanley has let a wanted gangster go? What will Stanley’s wife do when she finds out he’s willingness to play a dangerous game with an innocent young man as the stakes? And what will Charlie actually do when confronted by his deadly brother?

The beauty of Cave’s script too is that it doesn’t speed through any of this, consequently building up notable moments of tension, brutality and genuine shock. The performances throughout are strong, with Pierce and Winstone spearheading the cast with skill, yet finding tremendous support in the shape of John Hurt, Emily Watson and Danny Huston. Married up to the subtle and thoughtful direction of John Hillcoat, The Proposition is, quite simply, one of the finest films of the year, and the latest resurrection for a genre that rightly refuses to remain dormant.--Simon Brew --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Western, transplanted to Australia, with startling results
By russell clarke VINE VOICE on 5 May 2006
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A new cinematic sub genre now exists. The Australian western. The Proposition though transplants the mythic landscape of The American versions into a broiling sun/sand blasted fly plagued hell hole. It's not a nice place, slavered in heart that regularly fluctuates between 40-50 degrees centigrade. You sort of wonder why anyone would want to be there in the first place.

But there people are, in 1880 the British have set up a settlement in Banyon, a newly established town in Queensland. Overseen by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) who along with his wife Martha (Emily Watson) have made a futile attempt to relocate their homeland into this godforsaken place with their net curtains carefully tended garden and roast Sunday lunches the settlement is under a pall of fear after a vicious gang of outlaws led by the psychopathic Arthur Burns (Danny Huston) have slaughtered a family of settlers. Stanley eager to tame this frontier land hunts down and captures Burns brothers Charlie (Guy Pearce) and his semi-retarded kid brother Mikey (Richard Wilson) and offers Charlie a gut wrenching proposal. In order to save Mickey and himself from the hangman he must hunt and kill his older brother.

Given 9 days to carry out this onerous task Charlie sets out on a journey redolent of Marlow's search for Kurtz in Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness", into an unforgiving unknown with god knows what horrors at the end of it.

The Proposition is as, everyone remotely interested in the film knows, is written by Nick Cave , and anyone familiar with his music, most notably it's preoccupation with death , murder and brutal lyricism , and also his novel "And The Ass Saw The Angel" will not be too surprised at the levels of violence.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsEnthralling but less than the sum of its parts
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 12 Nov. 2006
Format: DVD
The Proposition has the kind of premise that Anthony Mann would have loved - wild colonial boy Guy Pearce is released into the outback to kill his psychotic older brother Danny Huston to save his younger brother from the noose by Ray Winstone's policeman determined to civilize his godforsaken corner of 19th century Australia. Unfortunately it never quite makes enough of it. Coming to it after both the excessive praise and the equally excessive backlash I wasn't disappointed, although the film does have problems. The most obvious is that screenwriter Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat become so enamoured of Winstone's character that he dominates the film to the detriment of not only the other players but the film itself: while there's none of his scenes that should be cut, neither Pearce nor Huston get nearly as much screentime. As a result, the central moral dilemma is kept firmly backstage and Huston's nature is only really hinted at rather than explored, although the violence, when it comes, is convincingly blunt. But at times it's almost as if Coppola had decided that instead on concentrating on Martin Sheen's killer in Apocalypse Now he'd make a film about the officer who sends him out to terminate with extreme prejudice instead.

It's a film with great things going for it - there's some fine dialogue, Hillcoat has a great visual sense and a striking eye for the Scope frame, while an underplayed Winstone is superb - but one that never becomes great.

Also released on a film-only single disc edition, Tartan's original 2-disc DVD doesn't include the featurettes from the US disc and the packaging gets the running time of the making of documentary wrong - it's 27 minutes, not 118 (that's the combined length with the cast and crew interviews), but is still a very good package, with an excellent 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.
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5.0 out of 5 starsin fact the end is worse than the beginning
By RICHARD on 11 Mar. 2015
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Very violent from beginning to end, in fact the end is worse than the beginning...its a very gritty and raw film, generally quite stunned after i saw it the first time...left me feeling quite uncomfortable. I wouldn't recommend watching this film if you are under 21 suffer from a nervous disposition, are female (because there are some nasty rape scenes in it) - generally this film is quite messed up, it has decapitation in it too, generally not a nice film to watch, it will make you feel cold afterwards and thinking OMG i can't believe i just watched this? However, on the plus side, the film does have great acting in it, and has excellently researched guns and costumes for the period it is set in...so probably a man's film, i only bought this because it was recommended to me after i bought ned kelly? But this is way way more gritty and vivid than ned kelly! No comparison at all...this film is disturbed, but its artistic with it, sort of, if you can get past all the vivid and graphic shootings/ beatings etc... Generally not sure what to make of this film, not the sort of film you'd probably want to see more than once to be honest, as it is quite harrowing and ultra violent. I prefer my westerns a bit more gentle...
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Life is beautiful!" -The Proposition
By Derek Dominoe on 1 Nov. 2006
Format: DVD
The DVD

This is an excellent DVD package. On Disc 1 you get the superb main feature. On Disc 2 you'll find a raft of extras: loads of interviews and a Making of documentary that's almost as long (118 minutes) as the feature itself!

The Film

As for the film itself, the first point that must be made is that this is NOT a Western. Anyone who calls it a Western has no idea what they are talking about. A Western is a film about events taking place in the American West during the second half of the 19th Century, i.e. circa 1850-1900. There may be some variation on the date or location, e.g. drifting across the border into "Mehico", but what we're talking about is the good old Wild West.

The Proposition takes place in the Australian Outback in the late 19th Century. The parallels that exist with Westerns are fairly obvious (brutal landscapes, drifters on horses, indigenous population being mistreated by white settlers, gun-play, etc.) but that's where the similarities end. This is a morality tale concerning white settlers (British and Irish), indigenous aboriginals and local whites in Australia.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film for its beautiful photography, interesting characters, tense and foreboding story and brief history lesson on white settlement of the Australian Outback - not a subject one is overwhelmed with in films today.

The acting is outstanding from everyone in the film. Danny Huston (Arthur Burns) caught my eye in particular. Arthur, although a very violent and disturbing man, also comes across as intelligent, educated and not lacking a certain amount of integrity, at least where his `family' is concerned.

Guy Pearce puts in another fine, if limited, performance. For my money, Guy Pearce (L.A.Read more ›
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