From: russell-watson@att.net
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:58:28 -0500, "laro" wrote:
>Is THAT the name of it?
>
>Good, I've seen several spot commercial/previews on satellite TV,
>but the satellite folks seem to show ONLY terse cuts with a
>few big faces and lots of music, drama, and "coming to a theater
>near you soon!" I never find enough to even tell me what the name
>of the damned movie it. This looked good in preview. Maybe I
>will sneak off from my wife and see it!
Guy on rec.art.movies.current-films claims to have seen it a couple
weeks ago in a sneak preview and says it's pretty good. He says the
gunplay so emphasized in the ads is all at the climax of the picture
and takes up just a few minutes of the total run time of the film.
It's based on a book called _The Open Range Men_ by Lauran Paine. Of
course it's currently available under the same title as the movie,
just as Forrest Carter's _Gone to Texas_ became _The Outlaw Josey
Wales_ after the Eastwood movie came out in '76.
>
>"Russell Watson" wrote in message
>news:66kbjvot7g4f6ibur1io2rgasvdahn0htu@4ax.com...
>> I'm looking forward to the release of this movie next Friday. I've
>> read the book it's based on and it appears that they took the smallest
>> kernel of the basic plot and the names of the characters to use in
>> making the movie, based on what is shown in previews. Not atypical of
>> Hollywood interpretations, and in this case probably not a bad idea. I
>> found the book to be rather dry reading, and a real throwback to
>> really old style westerns, despite having been originally copyrighted
>> in 1990. While Duvall comes fairly close to the description of his
>> character in the movie, the guy Costner plays is a completely
>> different physical type as described in the book, as is Annette
>> Bening's.
>> '97 FLSTF
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