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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Surprisingly clean for a Netflix show I also thought the cma award shoe was more wholesome than usual.
Hamer said, “I hate to bust a cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down, but if it hadn’t have been them, it would have been us.”
Not at the time of the Barrow/Parker shindig. He was working for the head of the prison system in Texas. The book is very much worth the read as it deals with far, far more than the Barrow/Parker killing. It reaches back to Hamer’s youth and is very well sourced.
Posted claim was first time in history and these state enforcers crossed into Louisiana to lie in wait for their ambush. To make it clear they were outside of their jursidiction when they killed this nasty pair.
And Woody Harrelson is still a horrible person who has gone to battle against the death penalty and fought for his hitman daddy who murdered a judge (among others).
Don’t buy the hype. F-netflix.
Au contraire!......
Kevin Costner is an excellent actor
The Untouchables
Dancing With Wolves
Hidden Figures
Open Range......etc
I have been told that the lawmen were in anguish over killing a pregnant woman. The location where it happened is just down from an overpass on I-20 at Arcadia.
I have been told that the lawmen were in anguish over killing a pregnant woman. The location where it happened is just down from an overpass on I-20 at Arcadia.
Is it just me or did Kris seem out of place in that group?
> Is it just me or did Kris seem out of place in that group? <
Yep. The fourth member should have been Hank Williams, Jr.
Thank you. That was a good article.
You’re welcome
I thought so too.
Knock yourself out.
In my judgement he’s a 1/2 dimensional dope lol.
The gun store scene was awesome.
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Yes, yes it was. Artistic license? Yes, but they got the period “feel” just about perfect. Just like the Depression-era migrant camps and the small-town scenes in Texas and Louisiana - dead accurate.
Also... politicians hobbling law enforcement - sounds familiar.
I never knew or heard that Bonnie was pregnant?
Negative, Kris was good in the band and a great friend of Cash.
I started that book and found I was unable to put it down. Three days of reading and researching the citations given. An eye opener as to Texas history and Hamer’s role in the events mentioned. Kindle version available with photographs.
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