Jane Campion on “The Power of the Dog”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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You're Adapting From a Novel, You Know?
The film is a counterpoint, i think, and in subversive one, to the dominant am, i suppose, fairy tale of it. You knowow last week, the actor sam elliot, was played a hell lot of cowboys and a lot of hollywood movies,. He asked what a woman, a person from new zealand, knows about making westerns? And in general, criticized your portrayal of cowboy life. Do you care? O samElliot, he's, he'she's a wonderful actor. I understand that from his point of view of playing classical cowboys and feeling like in some way he and his cohorts own that am, jona, it must be
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