![]() ![]() "this old world still looks the same/ another frame". so he forces himself to remain numb (in part due to alcohol, i believe heh), and the last lines are just saying that no matter what, it's just one part of this huge puzzle of life. So he worked up the nerve to talk to her about it, and loses it, can't say it, and loses her. He wants to believe she's changed, but i think he finds she's been with friends of his. He fell in love with a girl who had a reputation for sleeping around. The first part is in third person, but he is talking about himself. i'd really like to believe it's both.Īs with most eagles songs, this tells a story. or it could be referring to tequila's golden color, in comparison to the gold of a country sunrise. one - that he's been out drinking all night, so he sees the sunrise through the haze of tequila. There are even moments when the chronology itself seems confused, when characters seem to know things they could not be aware of, when other characters arrive at places they should not have known about.The title has always had me wondering. “Tequila Sunrise” weaves a tangled web, and there are times when we are not sure what is happening, or why. Which one will she choose? The lawman who seems to deceive her? Or the outlaw who plays straight? As we descend into the somewhat murky depths of Towne’s screenplay, these and other questions confound us. ![]() The most intriguing triangle in the movie involves, not the drug people, but this three-way romantic tug of war. Will McKussic try to score one more deal? The personal and professional tension between the two old pals is complicated because they are both in love with the same woman - Jo Ann Vallenari ( Michelle Pfeiffer), who runs the Italian restaurant they hang out in. Walsh) that a big drug shipment is coming to town, personally escorted by the Mexican drug kingpin Escalante ( Raul Julia).Įscalante and McKussic have been close friends for years. Frescia learns from a federal agent (J.T. This is Nick Frescia ( Kurt Russell), head of the sheriff’s drug detail and an old high-school running-mate of McKussic. His best pal and worst enemy doesn’t think so. ![]() ![]() The central question in the movie, however, is whether he’s really left his past behind. He’s not cruel, he’s not mean, he’s not strung out on drugs, and when he falls in love with a girl he’s too shy to tell her. McKussic seems to have survived a long career as a narcotics distributor without doing any permanent psychic harm to himself. Only in Southern California would you lose custody because you’d stopped selling drugs.īut no matter. Why will he lose custody? Because he’s a drug dealer? No, because he isn’t a drug dealer - he has retired, and his wife is mad at him because the money is no longer rolling in. He lives on the beach with a young son that he adores, and the greatest fear in his life is that he’ll lose custody to his ex-wife. The movie stars Mel Gibson as Dale McKussic, the nicest drug dealer you’d ever want to know. Now here is “Tequila Sunrise,” written and directed by Towne, and containing so many devious plot developments that at times we miss what’s on the screen because we’re still trying to figure out what the previous scene was revealing. His most famous credit is the screenplay for “ Chinatown,” a film so labyrinthine that it is difficult to explain precisely what happened in it, even after you’ve just seen it. ![]()
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