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(3.86) | 1 | Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses his past as a killer during the Civil War and strikes up a tentative romance with Sue, the sister of the town doctor.… (mehr) |
» Andere Autoren hinzufügen Autorenname | Rolle | Art des Autors | Werk? | Status | Costner, Kevin | Director, Actor & Producer | Hauptautor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Storper, Craig | Screenwriter | Hauptautor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Bening, Annette | Actor | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Benrubi, Abraham | Actor | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Bernstein, Armyan | Executive producer | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Bloomfield, John | Costume Designer | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Buckley, Gae | Production Designer | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Duthie, Michael J. | Herausgeber | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Duvall, Robert | Actor | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Eberts, Jake | Producer | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Gambon, Michael | Actor | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Jeter, Michael | Actor | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Kamen, Michael | Verfasser | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Luna, Diego | Actor | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Muro, James | Director of photography | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Russo, James | Actor | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Valdes, David | Producer | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt | Wright, Miklos | Herausgeber | Co-Autor | alle Ausgaben | bestätigt |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf Englisch (1)▾Buchbeschreibungen Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses his past as a killer during the Civil War and strikes up a tentative romance with Sue, the sister of the town doctor. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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The story of two saddle pals grazing their cattle on free range until a rancher holding court over a town attempts to stop them, is a staple of the genre. These circumstances will always force a confrontation between good and evil, as it does here. Costner's character, Charley Waite, has a deadly past he would just as soon forget. It is a side buried so deep that he has not even shown it to his traveling companion of ten years, Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall).
Duvall gives another magnificent performance as the seasoned cowpoke who has ridden with Charley for years, but knows very little about him. There is something mythic about these omissions, showing the West as it was; men sizing each other up without need of further questions. Boss is a tough cowboy who has always suspected the gun on Charley's hip had many stories to tell, but respected the man wearing it enough not to ask. In addition, the image of the soft-spoken cowboy whose dog means as much to him as any man, is shown not once, but twice during this film. It was the one attachment a man could have without worry because his dog was a loyal friend who could never be turned.
Open Range takes on mythic proportions because it remains simple, emphasizing the values of loyalty and goodness we associate with our image of the West and those values. Costner’s film does not shy away from pointedly showing that good men sometimes had to do bad things in order to enforce those values. It was the willingness and courage of men like Charley and Boss that would shape the West into a place where people could live free. Costner's homage to the American cowboy and gunfighter also highlights the old-fasioned side of men who spent long hours together but were flustered at the sight of a pretty woman — having seen one so seldom. This aspect is highlighted when Charley is reluctant to engage in a romance with the pretty sister ( Annette Bening) of the town's doctor; this is not due to shyness, but Charley’s shame at some of the killing he has done. Charley feels she would look at him in disgust if she knew what real violence was like, and learned that no man was more capable of it than he. The scenes between Charley and Sue are tender and sweet, reminiscent of a silent film romance, shot in soft-focus.
The climatic gunfight is one of the finest ever filmed. It is long and ugly, rather than quick and well-staged, just as they really were. Charley’s speech to Boss as he preps the tough cowboy on what to expect, explaining how each man will react, is one of the great moments in western film. It is not the gunfight itself, however, which adds meaning to the outcome. It is Charley’s loneliness, shown by his picking out a pattern for a gift to Sue should he not survive. You truly get the sense he would almost prefer he did not, so he would not have to face her once the violence of which he is most capable is brought to light. But Costner shows the women of the West to be something special also. Bening's character, Sue, may own some good china, but she can drink from a tin cup and tend to the wounded as well. She is strong, as women who went West had to be, yet she does not lose her femininity.
Fine performances from Costner, Duvall, and Annette Bening, and a supporting cast that includes Michael Jeter in his final film, Michael Gambon, Diego Luna, Abraham Benrubi, and Dean McDermott round out this tale of the West’s changing landscape. Breathtaking shots of open prairie are augmented by a timeless cowboy saga. Some failed to see this film’s great virtue at the time of its release, but there is a timeless feel to the storytelling here. One thinks of silent westerns made from old-fashioned books like Riders of the Purple Sage when watching this beautifully filmed homage to the West. Films with sound and those without are two very different art forms with a strong connection to each other. Costner deftly managed to bridge the gap between those two art forms in Open Range, and the results are unforgettable. ( )