The Power of the Dog director racked up awards and Twitter points, and then stepped in it big time…
Jane Campion is a celebrated and talented filmmaker, and she’s been riding her modern Western The Power of the Dog into a deep award season run. Along the way, as we’ve all talked about, actor and iconic mustache-owner Sam Elliott hopped on Marc Maron’s podcast and essentially claimed the movie was not a real western partly because it was made by a woman from New Zealand (Campion), partly because of its themes dealing with gay characters, and partly because… it wasn’t filmed in the actual American West.
All of these things are pretty bonkers, but the last one makes you wonder if Elliott even knows how movies have been made.
Unfortunately, we can’t build time machines and shoot in old-timey Dodge City, Kansas. It looks different now. John Ford had to use Arizona to double as Texas. Why? Because he didn’t even care what state it was shot in or supposed to be shot in, he just liked the way the rocks looked. That’s called “making movies.”
Author: George Edelman
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