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Sam Elliot slams ‘The Power of the Dog’ as ‘piece of shit’ film: ‘Where’s the Western in this Western?’


That was 5 weeks today. He just caved to the SJW mob today:

Sam Elliott said "I want to apologize to the cast of The Power of the Dog, brilliant actors all. ... I can only say that I'm sorry."

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sam-elliot-slams-the-power-of-the-dog-piece-of-s-t-film

The actor slammed the film, which is nominated for 12 Academy Awards. During an episode of "WTF With Marc Maron," Elliot, 77, was asked if he had seen the film yet, to which Elliot replied: "You want to talk about that piece of s---?"

Elliot referenced a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times that featured a review blurb that described the film as "an evisceration of the American myth."

"I thought, what the f---?" Elliott said of the adaptation from the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. "This is a guy who has done Westerns his entire life. ‘The evisceration of the American myth.’ It looked like — what are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bow ties and not much else? Remember them from back in the day?"

"I mean, Cumberbatch never got out of his f---ing chaps," Elliot maintained of the film. "He had two pairs of chaps — a wooly pair and a leather pair. And every f---ing time he would walk in from somewhere … he never was on a horse, maybe once — he’d walk into the f---ing house, storm up the f---ing stairs, go lay in his bed in his chaps and play his banjo. It’s like, what the f---?"

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Culturally The old west is a symbol of masculinity and very probably that is the reason why Campion choose that scenary to develop her gay story, no one cant deny this trend of take the simbols of masculinity and label as toxic or assocaited with homosexuality and I know cowboy outfit have been associated with gay culture for a long time (village people for example) but I do beleive in the years to come we are going to see more and more cowboys movie about homosexuals to the point when culturally we automaticaly will associated cowboy and old west only with homosexuality.

You can see a lot of that in comic book industry comics are mostly a boy thing I dont know any girl who like comics or give a S** about them but most companys and specially DC are way to focus on gay audiences and female audience to the point they are making a lot of character gay they are way more focus on representation of "minorities" meining gays and females than storytelling, to be honest I prefer read old comic than the new shit they are producing now.

Maybe Im paranoic and nothing of that is true who knows only time can tell

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The window for gay cowboys has passed. Westerns of the future will be about trans cow"boys", with maybe a black lesbian thrown in once in a while.

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Culturally The old west is a symbol of masculinity and very probably that is the reason why Campion choose that scenary to develop her gay story, no one cant deny this trend of take the simbols of masculinity and label as toxic or assocaited with homosexuality


Yeah, I hadn't thought of it before, but that's exactly how cultivation theory works and that's EXACTLY what they're doing in the comics industry and a bunch of Netflix projects.

Cowboys and cops being targeted by the Rainbow Reich could end up becoming more prominent. There was recently a movie about gay cop, and that's an obvious dig at the people who "back the blue". They very well could have made the story about a baker, a dancer, or a something more effeminate, but cowboys and cops have traditionally been associated with masculine culture, so that's specifically why they're being targeted.

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