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Power of the Dog starts in Montana in 1925, and is peopled with actors I like to watch: Benedict Cumberbatch, sometimes, here as the last man’s man who can break a horse, Jesse Plemons, as his stolid brother, a conventional family and business man, Kirsten Dunst, as Plemons’ new wife with her teen son, Kodi-Smit McPhee as Peter, who erases the line between masculine and feminine. Power of the Dog A scene from "Power of the Dog" You don’t see that every day in a Western, although Chloe Zhao just did it better for my tastes in The Rider in 2018.
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I saw Kiwi-born, Aussie director Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog at the Telluride Film Festival Labor Day, and while it’s the kind of broad stroke, over-heated storytelling reminiscent of 1950’s melodrama that I normally don’t like, I have to say that by the time it all wrapped up, I admired Campion and novelist Thomas Savage’s project: unpack just what’s at the back of the straighter than straight male’s fear of the feminine. But in the era of the embattled white male, the film resonates particularly well now with Boomers on both sides of their generation and their sons.Ī simple rule here applies: when the lead is a great character actor in a film like Tim Blake Nelson, dime to a doughnut the film has a good shot at quiet greatness. Any grampa and whippersnapper will get it. There is much here that simply derives from the 1950s end of the Western era, with the classic old gunfighter forced out of retirement one last time. Tim Blake Nelson is at the top of my list of current character actors and takes McCarty way past the work he did for the Coens as Buster Scruggs and all the way back to the old gunmen, Gary Cooper in High Noon, Alan Ladd in Shane, John Wayne in Who Shot Liberty Valance to do the right thing on behalf of the new world trying to be born. Country & Western star Trace Adkins is the very credible uncle Al who lives on the next spread over, with the deepest bass voice you never hear sing in character. Old Henry then faces a modern dilemma: the Truth exists but is a stranger. Curry is wounded and claims he’s the real sheriff.
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Stephen Dorff shows up at Henry’s farm – says he’s a sheriff named Ketchum leading a possible posse of bad looking dudes in hot pursuit of Scott Haze as a crook named Curry on the run with a saddlebag full of cash. But in the era of the embattled white male, the film resonates particularly well now with Boomers on both sides of their generation and their sons. Or you can just let Ponciroli’s story take you there-it’s built on the myth that his central character did not die in 1881, as widely believed, but hid out for a quarter of a century, married, was widowed – true, there are no women in this film who ain’t already dead – and raised him a teenage son, Wyatt, not like Wyatt Earp but Wyatt is this kid so up in my grill? The son is played by newcomer Gavin Lewis like all teenage sons: right on track as a restless, curious pain in the ass when the story begins and more adult than he bargained on as it plays out. The rest of us can track McCarty down easily enough on Wikipedia. The script written by director Potsy Ponciroli, who directed the series, Still the King with Billy Ray Cyrus, slips a what-if into the cracks of history: Henry McCarty is a name you sharp-eyed students of the Old West will recognize not as an alias but where a legend began. It’s also when the old west ends, and the modern era arrives. In Old Henry, Tim Blake Nelson plays Henry McCarty, a scripture quoting farmer in Oklahoma in 1906, the year before Oklahoma becomes a state. Harlan Jacobson Tim Blake Nelson in "Old Henry"