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However, not all cowboys are rooting for Jane Campions adaptation of the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage.
On theWTFpodcast hosted by Marc Maron,1883sSam Elliottshared he did not like director Jane Campions approach to the Western.
Thats what all these fucking cowboys in that movie looked like, he told Maron.
Theyre running around in chaps and no shirts.
Theres all these allusions of homosexuality throughout the movie.
Maron responded by stating that Elliotts criticism is what the movie is about.
Cumberbatch playsa closeted gay manwho overcompensates with hypermasculinity.
Wheres the Western in this Western?
I mean, Cumberbatch never got out of his fucking chaps.
He had two pairs of chaps a woolly pair and a leather pair.
Its like, what the fuck?
What the fuck does this woman from down there know about the American West?
And say this is the way it was?
That fucking rubbed me the wrong way.
Campion told the Los AngelesTimesin 2021 that the decision to film in New Zealand was due to budget constraints.
A lot of fantastic old ranch houses had been renovated as resorts.
Or turned into second homes that were half authentic, half fabulous kitchens.
