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CROSSROADS (Walter Hill’s Blues film, NOT Britney Spears’ self-indulgent 2002 fluff) is a terrific introduction to a uniquely American musical genre, with a mighty cast and a dead-on southern ‘atmosphere’. It has always astonished me that when released, critics were unable to spy past Ralph Macchio’s previous film work, and derive this gem on it’s fill merits, but it’s subsequent area as a cult classic is certainly well-deserved, with films such as the Coens’ O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? utilizing the Robert Johnson subplot and borrowing many of CROSSROAD’s visual elements. Perhaps the film, with a radiant Ry Cooder derive, was objective too far ahead of it’s time, a unfamiliar criticism to apply to a Blues movie!
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The story involves young Long Island guitar prodigy Eugene ‘Lightning Boy’ Martone (Macchio), a rebel at the Julliard School with his passion for the Blues (”Old music,” one professor sneers), on a quest to recover legendary guitarist Johnson’s fabled “30th Song” of 1938. His research leads him to a NYC nursing home, where fabled harmonica player Willie Brown (the gradual actor/singer/songwriter Joe Seneca), a friend and collaborator of Johnson’s, is confined. Promising to ‘give’ the song to the youngster if he can be “busted out” and returned to his Mississippi home, the pair are soon on a cross-country odyssey, with Martone learning about discrimination, the darker side of humanity, and love’s loss (through a brief encounter with Jami Gertz, who was never lovelier), providing him with the core of sadness Brown says is important to truly play the Blues.
The climax of the film is legendary; arriving home, Brown, who had ’sold his soul’ to the Devil at the ‘Crossroads’ as a young man (fair as his friend, Johnson, had), attempts to net ‘Scratch’ (skeletal Robert Judd) to plod up the contract. The Devil informs him that he will, only if Martone can defeat his Champion in a ‘Guitar Duel’. If the youngster loses, his soul, as well as Brown’s, will be lost, forever. Martone rashly agrees (”I don’t possess any of this s*** anyway!”), and he and Brown acquire themselves in a musty church converted into a dance hall, with demons and lost souls cavorting to the rock strains of insanely talented Jack Butler (Frank Zappa guitarist/composer Steve Vai) . With only his admire of the Blues, Julliard training, and Brown’s ‘ju-ju’ to relieve him, the humbled Martone must play for far more than his life, in a ‘Duel’ (with the fantastic Vai actually playing both guitar parts) that is so improbable that it is amazing that it was NOT included in the soundtrack album of the film!
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Walter Hill was no stranger to music-themed fantasies (he also directed another ‘ahead of it’s time’ cult film, STREETS OF FIRE), and with CROSSROADS, he took a simple storyline, and turned it into an unforgettable musical cinematic experience.
That the film is FINALLY on DVD is a MAJOR cause for celebration…now, let’s hope an expanded “Special Edition” with added bonus features, will follow!
The film “Crossroads” was a major influence on me. Of course we all heard rock music based on blues music but this was my introduction to searching wait on and finding the roots of music. I also began to play guitar after seeing the film, it is a most intelligent movie. I disagree with the Amazon/Matlin reviews that pan the movie due to Ralph Macchio (who i feel played a gorgeous role) or the status (its determined Matlin isnt even aware of the exact Robert Johnson)
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I anxiously await a DVD release, my VHS is so mature….
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