Kurt Russell in Tarantino Western

[Phantom Stranger]

http://www.thewrap.com/deal-central/column-post/kurt-russell-may-re...

[Buck Grizzly]

Sounds like a bloody spoof of the Skin Game?? Hopefully it won't be as bad as the last time they were working together.

[anthony martin]

  I think I'll be busy sorting out my sock drawer when this comes out!

[David Lambert]

One Earp for another. I've read Tarantino's script. It's a lot of fun, but if you're looking for anything even resembling historical accuracy then you will be pissed.

[Jim Holden]

Yes, not real enthused about this.  Tarantino makes some good movies, but I don't think I'll like his take on Westerns (is this really a Western?), and you have to really like his humor.

[anthony martin]

I didn't care for his spin on Inglorious Bastards at all.The original,as low budget as it was,had more internal coherence and plausibility.His earlier work had an edge that I liked.Now it seems like he needs to out Taratino Tarantino!

[David Lambert]

It's really more of a Spaghetti Western in style and tone, with a bit of MANDINGO and GOODBYE UNCLE TOM thrown in. Maybe if he gets a technical adviser they can change a few of the historical issues in the script (like mentioning Peacemakers and Winchesters by name in the pre-War period, along with a strange reference to a Teddy Bear...doesn't Tarantino know how it got its name?). By the end, the dialect goes off the rails too. Up to a point it's pretty good, but then characters start busting out the MFs, which just doesn't seem right at all (I know the F word was in usage at the time, but MF?). Like I said, it's an enjoyable script, and I know better than to expect accuracy from Tarantino, but these issues were a little annoying, and I hope they're properly addressed before the cameras roll.

[anthony martin]

 David,

    Everybody knows that it was called  the Chester or Grover Bear before it was the Teddy Bear!You just gotta love Hollywood!T he F word-I'm in my 50's and well remember when it still possessed shock power even going into the 70's and polite folks didn't let it slip out in public.M F is quite recent comparatively and seems to have been far more ethnically specific to begin with from what research I've done.I realize that film scripts are filtered through a modern sensibility for modern sensibilities but we also have to address logic too.I wish filmmakers would use more'If it doesn't fit don't wear it"thinking when addressing reasonable historic context-- then we could avoid some of the silly inappropriateness of Deadwood,The Quick and the Dead and quite a few others that come to mind.I'm just waiting for someone to say 'Hey M F, I'm gonna bust a cap on you!"

[David Lambert]

I'm no expert, but I've read that MF dates back to African Americans in World War II, but who knows?

 

The funniest thing about your "Hey MF, I'm gonna bust a cap on you" line is that "bust a cap" is actually totally appropriate for the period (Hardin uses a variation on it in his autobiography), but audiences would scoff at its usage in a Western (it's in the book TRUE GRIT and the original film, but was deleted for the most recent version).

 

Tarantino isn't in bad company on the teddy bear gaff though. Stanley Kubrick's script for NAPOLEON has a young Napoleon clutching a teddy bear in the opening scene, and supposedly Kubrick was an expert on Napoleon and the period he lived in. Whoops!

[anthony martin]

  David,

      Did Baby Napoleon's Teddy Bear have it's right paw tucked into it's vest?Inquiring minds want to know!Take care compadre--Anthony

[David Lambert]

Haha. It's not noted in the script, and since the film was never made, I guess we'll never know. Too bad Kubrick never got a chance to direct a Western. He almost did with One-Eyed Jacks, but Brando fired him and directed the movie himself.

[David Lambert]

Oh yeah, another historical inaccuracy in DJANGO UNCHAINED: the use of dynamite.

[anthony martin]

   David,

    I've never seen Django Unchained,so what year is it supposed to be?I seem to remember that Nobel invented the stuff in the late 1860's

   One EYED Jacks sort of drives me crazy--I love Karl Malden in just about everything he did but can only take Brando in very small servings- a sloppy,self indulgent,narcissistic and highly overrated actor in my own opinion,but then as a working actor I had very,very little patience with the method crowd!