The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Genre: Adventure/Drama/Western (in someways)
Year of release: 1948
Director: John Huston

I have been wanting to watch this for quite some time now and I must say I still was not disappointed. Every thing about this movie kicks ass. The acting, the story, the morals, the cinematography, the action, the character work, every single scene. How could John Huston make this fucking masterpiece fucking Maltese falcon and the African Queen which I have not watched yet and make a piece of shit like fucking Annie.

This piece of art is about gold and how it changes people it is one of the ultimate stories of greed that just gets better and better every second it goes through. Bogart plays his part very well but surprisingly enough he is only a contender for my favorite character as all the other characters were almost equally as awesome, I loved Howard and his crazy attidude, I am wondering if the Prospector in Toy Story 2 was inspired by Howard as their looks are identicle and they are both prospectors. The story was amazing, the character work was amazing the acting was amazing this movie is amazing.

Acting does not get much better than when its done by Humphrey Bogart he is getting up there with De Niro for me however I have only seen 3 of his movies however he was amazing in all of them. Humprey Bogart's character Fred C. Dobbs starts of as being a reasonable guy he only takes what he needs and is not greedy, we can see this from when the person does not pay him for all his work he then proccedes to beat the shit out of him and take his wallet, we see him lean down and take out the money, then to my surprise with out hesitation or temptation he divides the money up into what he is owed and returns the rest. This really shows how awesome his character is and really made me like Fred instantly. However the whole point of this movie is that gold changes people it is more of curse in the end rather than a blessing in the beginning Dobbs is detirmented that this will not happen to him and I for one believed him I though he was as he said the right type of person to receive a whole lot of gold and would not turn greedy. I tuely believed this but as the story goes along he slowly slips starts to go a little nuts in what I believe to be some of the best character changes of all time better in my opinion to how Oscar Schindler changes although Schindler also did an amazing turn around. This character who starts even to talk to himself really improves this character he is a real rags to riches story it is awesome to watch his character.

Howard was the prospector the leader the one who has gone through the greedy stage before when he had found gold in the past he is not greedy he stays through the whole movie very selfless. The other two on this adventure are almost tag alongs even if they were the ones that invited Howard onto this expidition without howard Curtain and Dobbs would be minning fools gold and probably be dead as well. It was cool to see Howawrd out do Curtain and Dobbs espectations of what he will be like. Dobbs and Curtain thought they would have to carry Howard along as Howard is quite old however Howard always has energy and even out does Dobbs and Curtain in fitness which I found quite amusing. Howard is slighly crazy not insane just his nature is a bit over energetic he is a great character that never once turns greedy. With out Howard holding the team together everything falls apart quite quickley.

Curtain does not seem like a huge character to begin with however he really does become quite big eventually. Curtain is not too gready however we can see slight temptations in him. I very much liked his character by the end always decent never greedy never crazy he is the sane one of the three. Curtain is slighly shy not much but only slightly his character does not speack nearly as much as the other two however he is never really scared just doesn't talk maybe because he does not need to talk. Beautiful.

The story in this is very exciting from start to finish I really got attached to the characters I wanted them to all succed and sell their gold for lots of money and be happy. The story of the gold cursing the beholder really shows strongly as because of the gold they go through many hardships I love the ending very orginal very unexpected and kick ass. The morals are good in this it is the type of movie any one of any age gender or species can enjoy. It is not overly violent however still has some very good action scences a bit like seven samurai.

In conclusion one of the best movies ever imdb is once again wrong even if it is at number 53 it deserves a whole lot more credit should be up there with the Godfather. The story is great, the acting is amazing and the characters and the changes they go through are simple put Godfather type characters.

9.5/10