A good friend is reading Robert Parker’s Appaloosa right now, and he won’t put it down long enough for me to check out more than a couple of chapters. From the pages I’ve seen, it’s pretty terrific. The dialogue between the characters Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen portray reminds me a lot of Gus and Woodrow from Lonesome Dove, but with a darker air of Unforgiven doom hanging heavy and overcast in the sky. Best news of all: Rene Zellweger’s character might not be entirely as pure as the prim first poster seemed to suggest. I’ll see about getting an excerpt online later this afternoon. (Another pair of these nice Wanted Poster one-sheets after the cut.)
Neato. I feel dusty just looking at them.
Not a bit of Roxie Hart about Renee here, either. In this one poster, at least, she looks perfectly cast.
(the banners here are clickable to supersize, btw, jennybee)
I’ve only read one of Parker’s “Spencer” series detective stories, because I don’t really like his private eye’s style or ethics.
But now I see that he writes his modern day mysteries as if they’re populated by wild west blackhat/whitehat types, I understand better where’s he’s coming from. And I like the idea of a hard-boiled western more than I do a cowboy PI.
The dialogue crackles with more heat than anything in 3:10 to Yuma, and it takes itself more seriously than Mangold seemed to want to last year. I like 3:10 to Yummm just fine, but my involvement slackened when it got too cute.
There’s nothing cute about Appaloosa, from the couple of chapters I read. Even the quiet parts are dark. If Harris just sticks to the novel, this should be a hard cold ride.
Whoa, these are beautiful, no matter how the film turns out.
beautiful pics…
Neato. I feel dusty just looking at them.
Not a bit of Roxie Hart about Renee here, either. In this one poster, at least, she looks perfectly cast.
(the banners here are clickable to supersize, btw, jennybee)
I’ve only read one of Parker’s “Spencer” series detective stories, because I don’t really like his private eye’s style or ethics.
But now I see that he writes his modern day mysteries as if they’re populated by wild west blackhat/whitehat types, I understand better where’s he’s coming from. And I like the idea of a hard-boiled western more than I do a cowboy PI.
The dialogue crackles with more heat than anything in 3:10 to Yuma, and it takes itself more seriously than Mangold seemed to want to last year. I like 3:10 to Yummm just fine, but my involvement slackened when it got too cute.
There’s nothing cute about Appaloosa, from the couple of chapters I read. Even the quiet parts are dark. If Harris just sticks to the novel, this should be a hard cold ride.
Whoa, these are beautiful, no matter how the film turns out.
beautiful pics…