Posted on 04/09/2019 5:10:50 PM PDT by rktman
The Hollywood elites are circling the wagons to keep Netflix out of the Oscar race, and customers chained to their old business model—as though masses of people still plan their night out by wondering who is nominated for what.
But Academy Award-winning Hollywood icon Kevin Costner won’t have to worry about Oscar consideration for his fine Netflix original, The Highwaymen, as it flies in the face of Hollywood liberal convention and restores the reputation of an American hero that Hollywood lore slandered as a vengeful, murdering buffoon way back in 1968.
Screenwriter John Fusco has been shopping his script to set the record straight about famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and his hunt for Bonnie and Clyde long enough that Paul Newman and Robert Redford were originally considered for the parts (Newman died in 2008).
But really, how could you possibly do better than Kevin Costner playing a legendary lawman who was a combination of Wyatt Earp and Elliot Ness? Couple that with Texas native Woody Harrelson’s laconic turn as Hamer’s best friend and partner, Maney Gault. It’s hard to think of anyone else in the roles.
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That’s because the Governor, Ma Ferguson, discharged all Texas Rangers in 1933 and was reconstituted or reformed in 1935 after she left office. The Texas legislative body also had a role in this as well. This was one aspect of the movie that was historically accurate. The Texas government dealt with a lot of types like Bonnie and Clyde and to combat this they deputized a lot of men that were untrained. It proved to be ineffective as the movie also portrays. While not altogether historically accurate, the movie does get some things historically correct. It was good from what I watched while working on the computer.
Iit is excellent. I really loved it
I think paramount is now available on Sling or Pluto via fire stick.
I found it very helpful beforehand to look up the history on Frank Hamer, Ma Ferguson, and others who were the characters represented. The movie followed the actual events and characters extremely well, whether heroes or scoundrels. It is a work worthy of seeing more than once.
Great movie. You only see B & C from a distance most of the movie. It was all about the Rangers tracking the murderers down.
See it.
Just finished the Johnson-Sims feud chapter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean
Alexander “Sawney” Bean was said to be the head of a 45-member clan in Scotland in the 16th century who were reportedly executed for the mass murder and cannibalization of over 1,000 people.
The story appears in The Newgate Calendar, a crime catalogue of Newgate Prison in London. While historians tend to believe Bean never existed or that his story has been greatly exaggerated, it has passed into local folklore and become part of the Edinburgh tourism.
According to The Newgate Calendar, Alexander Bean was born in East Lothian during the 16th century.[1] His father was a ditch-digger and hedge-trimmer and Bean tried to take up the family trade, but quickly realized that he had little taste for honest labour.
He left home with a vicious woman named Agnes Douglas, who apparently shared his inclinations and was accused of being a witch. After some robbing and the cannibalization of one of their victims, the couple ended up at a coastal cave in Bennane Head between Girvan and Ballantrae, where they lived undiscovered for some 25 years. The cave was 200 yards deep and the entrance was blocked by water during high tide.
The couple produced eight sons, six daughters, 18 grandsons and 14 granddaughters. Various grandchildren were products of incest between their children.
Lacking the inclination for regular labour, the clan thrived by laying careful ambushes at night to rob and murder individuals or small groups. The bodies were brought back to the cave where they were dismembered and eaten. Leftovers were pickled in barrels and discarded body parts would sometimes wash up on nearby beaches as part of the clan’s way of making the people think a wild animal was responsible.
The body parts and disappearances did not go unnoticed by the local villagers, but the Beans stayed in their cave by day and took their victims at night. The clan was so secretive that the villagers were unaware of the murderers living nearby.
As more significant notice was taken of the disappearances, several organized searches were launched to find the culprits. One search took note of the cave but the men refused to believe anything human could live in it. Frustrated and in a frenetic quest for justice, the townspeople lynched several innocents and the disappearances continued. Suspicion often fell on local innkeepers since they were the last known to have seen many of the missing people alive.
One fateful night, the Beans ambushed a married couple riding from a fayre on one horse, but the man was skilled in combat where he deftly held off the clan with sword and pistol. The clan fatally mauled the wife when she fell to the ground in the conflict. Before they could take the resilient husband, a large group of fayre-goers appeared on the trail and the Beans fled.
With the Beans’ existence finally revealed, it was not long before the King (likely King James in tales linked to the 16th century, though other tales are from the 15th) heard of the atrocities from the survivor and decided to lead a manhunt with a team of 400 men and several bloodhounds. They soon found the Beans’ previously overlooked cave in Bennane Head thanks to the bloodhounds. The cave was the scene of many murders and cannibalistic acts where it was scattered with human remains with some body parts hanging on the wall, barrels filled with limbs, and stolen heirlooms and jewellery.
There were two versions on what happened next...
That's the first thing I thought of when I read the headline! Good that I read the excerpt before posting something silly. Anyway, for you youngsters out there:
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This was the main theme. My 22 year old son enjoyed it too. My wife was worried that it would glorify Bonnie and Clyde like previous movies. It did just the opposite.
Well played, sir, well played.
There should be a rule that every FR thread must have either a MP, Animal House, or Christmas Story reference to be a valid thread.
Well played, sir, well played.
There should be a rule that every FR thread must have either a MP, Animal House, or Christmas Story reference to be a valid thread.
Two different food groups...but both great.
“They played up the fact that they were Texas Rangers which was interesting.” Just one of the many inaccuracies. The shootout in the dust clouds during the depicted never happened vehicle pursuit being another.
The book was very much worth the read. Five-hundred some odd pages covering Hamer’s life.
Yeah i liked it really well....
Did.
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He wasn’t a Texas Ranger?
” None of those women were ever killed by lawmen? Hyperbolic claims are hype.”
It wasn’t hype. Anyone who grew up in Texas can tell you a lawman in those days shooting a woman was not done lightly.
I’m gonna guess you must be from California or something.
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