Kevin Costner is trying to singlehandedly bring back the Western genre. It's going totally okay for him. His epic movie series, Horizon, just screened its second part in Santa Barbara, and I really hope we get to see it on the big screen soon. I liked the first part, and I deeply admire any filmmaker who believes so much in an idea that they're willing to put their own money up to see it through. - YouTube www.youtube.com Costner has always been a vocal supporter of Westerns, and when he did his Q&A at the Santa Barbara Film Festival after showing his movie, he talked about why. Costner explained that the American West was the promised land. He said, “We were told if we could get across that Atlantic Ocean, there was a place. It was like the Garden of Eden, and if you were mean enough and tough enough, you could make it yours."He continued, “That dream that brought people across the Atlantic was a nightmare for the people who had been here for 15,000 years. This land was contested all the way across America. It was a bad ending for the Native Americans who existed here, but I’m not embarrassed about that, I’m just disturbed that we don’t know more about it. And I was always bothered that we didn’t have more women in our Westerns because there was no Western without women.”One thing many people have noted about the Horizon movies is that Costner spent time telling...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 12 February