Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkQuestion I remember seeing a Zorro movie probably in the late 70s or early 80s that featured a song I remember distinctly I havent been able to find the title but I believe Zorros alter ego was either the king or some other aristocrat The song lyrics are something like He used to be the kingFa la la laZorros back Please help me get this question answered so I can get this song out of my head Everett FlickChick The movie was a Spanish version of Zorro made in 1975 with French actor Alain Delon as The Fox The song is Zorro Is Back written by Maurizio and Guido De Angelis and someone called S Duncan Smith which sounds like a pseudonym but could be for real I have no idea The De Angelises who contributed to a number of European movie soundtracks in the 1970s also recorded under the name Oliver Onions named after a 19th-century
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickBy comparison with some of my recent DVD Tuesday selections this weeks pick is an obvious one Martin Scorseses The Departed But sometimes obvious is the way to go its a terrific crime movie and I think theres a good chance its going to earn Scorsese the Oscar he so richly deserves The Departed is the first remake of Scorseses career something that was downplayed aggressively before the films opening I was frankly shocked by how deep into the films on-screen credits the names of Alan Mak and Felix Chong were buried Mak and Chong wrote the screenplay for Infernal Affairs 2002 The Departeds source material This is especially shocking since William Monahans screenplay for which he got an Oscar nomination hews so closely to the original The action is moved from Hong Kong to South Boston and the language changed from Mandarin to English but scene-for-scene the two screenplays are incredibly close None of which
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