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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 24, 2020 12:10:55 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 21, 2020 14:58:30 GMT
I just bought it. I haven't read it yet but I saw BC's name in the index. I read that page and it's about the numerous times The Power of the Dog was optioned for a movie. Do you know who was considered for Phil Burbank's role? Paul Newman!!! But the BIG problem with his casting was that he had TINY hands! Thank God for BC's HUGE hands! I now wonder if that was the reason he was cast for Doctor Strange, too!
Randy Quaid is also mentioned but they don't specify for what role. I think he would had been a good fit for George with his real life brother Dennis (who kind of looks like BC) in the Phil's part.
Faye Dunaway supposedly was interested in playing Rose in one of the multiple attempts.
Also Savage wasn't sure Hollywood would had dared to show the "graphic scene" of the climax of the book. I don't know what he was referring to. The book is very subtle but whatever it's, I'm sure Campion will go there! She is very good with "graphic" material! 😉
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 22, 2020 0:47:58 GMT
I am really enjoying this book.
Another interesting piece of info about TPOTD, Bronco Henry was a real life celebrity in that area. The author thinks there is a possibility that Savage's uncle in who is based Phil met him somewhere because they were contemporaries but he never worked as a ranch hand for his family and he doubts they had a significant relationship. Also there isn't any proof that any of them were gay. Maybe or maybe not his uncle was gay but he undoubtedly was projecting his own homosexuality on the character in that particular difficult moment in his life.
I wonder if Campion cast someone for the Bronco Henry role. He is mentioned in the official synopsis so he undoubtedly has a very relevant role in the movie as he has it in the book but I guess he could be an unseen character.
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Post by queenzod on Oct 22, 2020 3:51:56 GMT
I liked that he was unseen in the book. All we had were Phil’s impressions of him, which were obviously colored by the passage of time and his exaggerated admiration of the man, which lent a mystery to his character (always helpful in a western).
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 22, 2020 11:17:41 GMT
Yes, I guess he is mostly an unseen character in the book. Even when he is mentioned a lot by Phil, I don't think there is a long flashback with him. We have long flashbacks of Phil and George during their University years but not of Phil and Bronco's adventures! There is the short flashback of his death and I thought that probably would be in the film because there was a call for extras for a scene that sounded like that scene. We will see! Then there is the very subtle suggestion that something happened between Phil and him in the secret lake in which Phil baths. It's only a line, tho.!
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Post by queenzod on Oct 22, 2020 16:24:44 GMT
Yes, very tantalizing. 👀
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 27, 2020 18:09:45 GMT
I finished the book a few days ago. It's very interesting but I wish I had read more books by Savage to judge better the analysis of them.
One fascinating piece of info is that all his books have autobiographical themes even when he rarely admitted it so the uncle that inspired Phil appears in more than one book. Savage was between two families when he was a kid. His mother's was very happy, lovely and governed by a powerful matriarch (so very different to Peter's original family in TPOTD) meanwhile the stepfather's one was dark, sad and patriarchal. The last family inspired a lot of villains and tormented characters in his books. Another frequent bad guy in his books was the step grandfather (the Old Man in TPOTD). The difference between this two families kind of reminds me to a very American version of Fanny and Alexander!
Another nice data, Savage lived enough to see his best books republished in early 2000s. He was an acclaimed novelist but he never sell well and even when he never stop writing he couldn't publish anything in his last years. Anyway, he was extremely happy when he was informed that TPOTD was translated to French and that it was a hit in France. This is not mentioned in the book but I remembered that Roger Frappier (a French Canadian!) said he discovered the book thanks to Gerard Depardieu!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 19, 2021 13:04:15 GMT
It seems the original book (not the biography) will be published in Spanish, I think for the first time, this September.
And apart of announcing it, the editorial are remembering BC's birthday, too.
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Post by roverpup on Aug 6, 2021 17:29:07 GMT
I just finished the book.a remarkable piece of literature. It builds very methodically to a climax that, even though I suspected what was coming, still took my breath away.
I will be very interested to see how Campion interprets this story. She seems the perfect director to treat this book, with it's dark, interior design and delicate layering of themes, with the subtle but powerful approach it needs when being adapted to the screen.
And great casting - except for the nose, BC seems to have been born to play this role appearance wise with his physical attributes. And of course I have full confidence he will do a masterful job of bringing this character to life!
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 6, 2021 19:39:53 GMT
I saw someone on Twitter saying BC resembles to Clint Eastwood in that publicity photo! It's the "pale blue eyes" as it says the Netflix summary. I remembered the idiot that said BC wasn't masculine enough to do the part! I joked saying that maybe she wanted Chuck Norris in the role! BC perfectly fits the description of the character. Then I said that the hyper masculine actor that maybe could fit, in his younger age, was Clint Eastwood! But I doubt he would have done a role like Phil! Maybe without the gay stuff! I remember he was praised when he directed a movie with gay story lines but I don't think he would had played one!
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