William Friedkin Uses Action Tropes in Sorcerer to Talk About Vietnam
The Big Picture Released in the midst of the Star Wars boom in mid-1977, Sorcerer acted as William Friedkin’s gritty and loose reimagining of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s foundational action thriller The Wages of Fear.
Friedkin Gives 'Sorcerer' Stakes From the Beginning, Even Before the Perilous Journey Rather than establishing the film’s protagonists as upright citizens and bearers of conventional moral standards, Friedkin introduces the four central figures as crooks and criminals through an inventive and efficient prologue, allowing the characters’ shady external actions to foreground the psychological fallout they will face throughout the rest of the film.
While Sorcerer effortlessly imbues the suspenseful narrative with palpable stakes from its opening, the central sequences of the four men transporting nitroglycerin from the fictional port of Porvenir, Colombia across the Amazonian jungle prioritize the symbolic role that PTSD plays in the structure of the action thriller.
'Sorcerer' Shows a Grounded Approach to Action Filmmaking Building off of the relentlessness of the men’s trek through the jungle, the ambiguous ending of Sorcerer sees Scheider’s protagonist as a shell of his former self, which serves as a reminder of the fragile humanity at the film's core.
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