An oil well explodes and the only way to extinguish the flames is to use dynamite (believe it or not). The only dynamite available in the region is on the far side of a mountain range. It has been improperly stored, causing it to 'sweat', making it highly unstable. Four criminals, living in the remote mountains to hide from the law, are hired to drive the dynamite across unsafe mountain roads to the well in two trucks they have constructed from spare parts themselves. They call these trucks 'Lazaro' and 'Sorceror'.
The film was a remake of a 1950s French movie called The Wages of Fear. William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) got into arguments and fights with just about everyone making this film. If you don't know about William Friedkin, here's a little introduction:
Anyway, the movie bombed- Friedkin blamed being released in the same year as Star Wars but plenty other movies released in 77 and made bank:
Also, nobody saw the point of remaking The Wages of Fear and critics panned any attempt by Burgers to remake any Frog movie because, clearly, Frog cinema is a carousel of culture and beauty the likes of which no Burger could understand.
Nowadays people think Sorceror's pretty rad, and for good reason.
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Le gendarme okay if someone says any shit about my dear gendarme you can go rope. This is the only time I will become extremely antagonised and dramatic.
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Gendarme are actually scary, unlike bong policemanofficers
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French police have lost their balls just like everyone else in Europe. In the 1960s question was asked; 'are there too many Algerians in Paris?' and the gendarmerie answer was a few hundred dead Algerians floating down the Seine.
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