[LISTEN] Sam Elliott on Power of the Dog

You can take a horse to the cinema, but you can’t make them enjoy the film. “Best Picture” Oscar nominee The Power of the Dog is considered to be one of the front runners for the everchanging awards show this year. However, not all cowboys are rooting for Jane Campion’s adaptation of the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. On the WTF podcast hosted by Marc Maron, 1883’s  Sam Elliott shared he did not like director Jane Campion’s approach to the Western. Elliott criticized the deconstruction of the cowboy archetype and the Western genre, comparing Benedict Cumberbatch’s character Phil to Chippendale dancers. “That’s what all these fucking cowboys in that movie looked like,” he told Maron….