Sam Elliot Is Wrong About The Power of the Dog
While 1883 actor Sam Elliot had some choice words for director Jane Campion’s Oscar hopeful The Power of the Dog, the screen veteran’s comments couldn’t have been further off the mark for various reasons. While actors and directors have always commented on each other’s work, in recent years, the online news cycle has resulted in this tendency causing their publicists no end of grief. For example, Brian Cox’s comments on Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow were widely misinterpreted and led to many commentators castigating the actor for things he never said.
On the other hand, the rise of podcasts has also made long-form, informal interviews more common. This has resulted in many industry professionals having more rope to proverbially damage themselves with, whether it is actor Julia Fox going viral on TikTok for her inventive pronunciation ofUncut Gems or 1883 star Sam Elliot making the news for his vitriolic tirade about The Power of the Dog. However, the latter is significantly more misinformed and harmful than the clip from Josh Safdie’s erstwhile muse.
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In a short clip that went viral (via WTF With Marc Maron), Elliot comfortably outdid Cox’s Pirates of the Caribbean comments as he slammed the broadly-acclaimed western for a string of reasons. Among these were the director’s nationality, the movie’s themes of homosexuality, its attempts to deconstruct the Western mythos, and its costuming. The thing is, Elliot is embarrassingly wrong on every front (save forThe Power of the Dog’s choice to shoot in New Zealand rather than Montana, a fair criticism as it did rob the movie of some stunning vistas). Elliot implies that a director from New Zealand couldn’t
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