![]() “He will slit your throat the minute you’re alone” Sutherland as Uncle Aquila warns. Though the musical score in both films feels rather similar, Esca and Aquila have no problem reversing their roles and letting their love/hate relationship sort itself out. Purchasing one to attend to the other Gyllenhall/Twist’s passive role couldn’t overcome Ledger/Del Mar’s self-hatred. Perhaps because Jake Gyllenhall’s Jack Twist and Heath Ledger’s Ennis Del Mar didn’t come with Uncle Donald Sutherland with these two enemies building a deep friendship and devotion is less blatant but more intense than Brokeback Mountain. ![]() While Season Of The Witch is an intriguing paean to the Hammer Films / American International Pictures of the 1960s (especially Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe movies), The Eagle sports multiple intriguing plots that push veteran actors Donald Sutherland and Denis O’Hare way into the background, and a not-so-thinly veiled homosexual undercurrent between the master, Roman soldier Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum) and his British slave, Esca (Jamie Bell). ![]() Director Kevin MacDonald’s follows director Domenic Sena’s Season Of The Witch by about a month, both films displaying sword fighting, four years after Zack Snyder’s 300 brought the blood fests into vogue.
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