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Greetings from 2022 Calgary Stampede Parade Marshal Kevin Costner

Kevin can do this Cowboy thing:

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And my favorite Movie:

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Silverado / The Credits Quiz

The Credits quiz

The spectacular Silverado ensemble cast is revealed:

Here’s an alphabetical listing of opening Silverado Credits and Billing:

Rosanna Arquette
John Cleese
Kevin Costner
Brian Dennehy
Scott Glenn
Danny Glover
Jeff Goldblum
Linda Hunt
Lawrence Kasdan
Kevin Kline
Question/Quiz: 

The Quiz question is:
Without looking below, what order would you Bill the above Actors in the opening Silverado Screen Credits?
I ask this question because the Billing order is very often not what you’d figure it would be.
Try this quiz and you’ll see.


To me the order of Billing is always interesting.
Who gets Top Bill? – and the succeeding order.
It’s often not what you would think it would be.

Screen Images rom  “THE MOVIE STILLS COLLECTION” website: (http://annyas.com/screenshots/updates/silverado-1985-lawrence-kasdan/)

A Critical Showdown

Because of it’s eminent re-watchability
I place Silverado a Western Classic.
That’s how I judge these things.
Time usually tells the story.

Other opinions:

IMDB: “7.2” Not bad.

I’m a big fan of Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
because they also show the ‘Audience Score’
who aren’t encumbered by intellect.
They just know what they like.

MetaCritic: “64” out of 100.
Audience: “8” out of 10.
The audience got it.

ALLMOVIE: “4.5” out of 5.
Right.

Silverado (1985) – the Posters

Silverado inducted into My Favorite Westerns. 

Soundtrack:

Silverado Preview Trailer:

https://youtu.be/QfMrJBTH3hM

Love this Western.
It’s generic and
Cliché as hell, but easily carried by it’s amazing Star Power and action. 

Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover,
Riding high.

“Get ready for the ride of your life.”

Silverado Poster 1

“A dangerous place,
in a lawless time … ’til four friends risked
all to make things right.”

Silverado Poster 2
Silverado DVD Cover

“FUN … HIGH-SPIRITED, JOYOUS” 

“Fun”? “Joyous”??
Have you ever seen any Western with Tags like this before?
Silverado gets away with it.

Silverado Poster 3

Italian: “There is something new in the West”

French: “In the West, finally something new”
???

Spanish: “Ride with them on the adventure of a lifetime”

Silverado
Silverado Spanish

Chinese: Four decadent Westerners murder the Authorities”
(joke)

Silverado Chinese
Silverado Chinese

Lobby Cards:The Lobby Card above has a spoiler of the climactic gunfight? 

Spoiling for a gunfight
4 Stars

Chasing them ol’ Covid Blues …

The Sun will Rise Again

I recently said some negative things about Kevin Costner on another Blog. I deeply regret those knee jerk remarks. Snap judgements. What do I really know about anybody else? Not a damn thing. I hope to become less judgmental in future. 

And I really like what he says here. Not a bad song either.

Thanks Kevin.

 

Open Range … the Firearms – Part 3

Open Range … the Firearms – Part 3.

 

Part 3 of Guns and the 20 minute climactic Open Range gunfight.

Very well done.

Robert Duvall …

“When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.”
Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall - Open Range
Robert Duvall – Open Range

Lonesome Dove / Open Range / Broken Trail / True Grit / Joe Kidd / Lawman /
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid

Kevin Costner – Producer / Director / Actor …

Kevin Costner and Modern West – “Intense”

Open Range - Kevin Costner
Open Range – Kevin Costner

“I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.” 
– Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner Western Filmography

Silverado (1985) / Dances With Wolves (1990) / Wyatt Earp (1994) /
Open Range (2003)

Kevin Costner – Producer / Director / Actor …

Kevin Costner and Modern West – “Intense”

Open Range - Kevin Costner
Open Range – Kevin Costner

“I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.” 
– Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner Western Filmography

Silverado (1985) / Dances With Wolves (1990) / Wyatt Earp (1994) /
Open Range (2003)

Open Range – Bronze Wrangler Award Winner 2003

Open Range
Winner of the Bronze Wrangler Award 2003

Open Range - Bronze Wrangler Award 2003
Open Range – Bronze Wrangler Award 2003

The Bronze Wrangler is an award presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to honor the top works in Western music, film, television and literature.

The awards were first presented in 1961. The Wrangler is a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback, and is designed by artist John Free.

The awards program also recognizes inductees into the prestigious Hall of Great Westerners and the Hall of Great Western Performers as well as the recipient of the Chester A. Reynolds Memorial Award, named in honor of the Museum’s founder.

Bronze Wrangler Award
Bronze Wrangler Award

Previous Winners of the Bronze Wrangler Award

1961 The Alamo /1962 The Comancheros /1963 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance /1964 How the West Was Won /1965 Cheyenne Autumn /1966 The Sons of Katie Elder /1967 Appaloosa /1968 The War Wagon /1969 Will Penny / 1970 True Grit / 1971 A Man Called Horse / 1972 The Cowboys / 1974  The New Land / 1976 Bite the Bullet /1981 Heartland / 1984 Never Cry Wolf  / 1989 Young Guns / 1991 Dances With Wolves / 1992  Thousand Pieces of Gold / 1993 Unforgiven / 1994 Geronimo: An American Legend / 1995 Legends of The Fall / 1999 Hi-Lo Country /2003 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron /2004 Open Range / 2006 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada / 2007 Truce / 2008 3:10 to Yuma / 2009 Appaloosa / 2011 True Grit / 2012 Yellow Rock …

Past individual winners have included Owen Wister, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy, Harry Carey, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Rex Allen, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Richard Widmark, James Stewart, Buck Taylor, Howard R. Lamar, Ben Johnson, Pernell Roberts, and Tom Selleck …

(MFW: lots of worthy films and folks on those lists. Surprised to see Never Cry Wolf (1984) on there though – not really a Western (IMO) – but a great movie to be sure. (I have a couple of ‘suspect’ inclusions on my own lists so I can’t say much). However in researching 1984 I find it truly was a bad year for Westerns. BUT one film that was made in 1984 (that I have never seen) was Draw with Kirk Douglas and James Coburn. It’s listed as a TV Movie, but you’d figure that anything with Douglas and Coburn would automatically be pretty good. ?? I’ll have to check that out.)

Celebrating ‘Open Range’ …

No place to run.  No reason to hide.

Open Range Soundtrack

Open Range poster
Open Range poster
Open Range Title Banner
Open Range Title Banner
Open Range Title Banner 2
Open Range / Trailer

 

Starting my Open Range page …

Home on the Range …

Where to go next … ?? There is no end of possibilities.  So many great Westerns … so little time.

I’ve received two suggestions: Eastwood’s Academy Award winning Unforgiven – Academy Awards Best Picture in 1992. (Wow, was it really that long ago?)

And Open Range (2003) a worthy duster (also shot in Alberta) with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall.

Unforgiven 1992
Open Range wallpaper
Open Range (2003)
Unforgiven

I worked as a set painter on Unforgiven which was shot near Longview, Alberta – the small Western town set was built on some (well guarded and secluded) private property. I wish I could tell you that it was a glorious experience where I smoozed with Movie Stars, Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris. But it wasn’t.The set was tight and strict – high security. I never saw any of the Stars at all, but there was strict rules not to approach or talk to them unless invited.
My work has hot, dirty and tough. And even dangerous. I recall being up 3 storeys on a rickety scaffold – painting the back a building – by myself – that never even appeared in the film.
I made 8 dollars an hour – working alongside carpenters who were making 100 dollars an hour – or more.
Aw yes … the romance of film. Eastwood had a couple of henchmen whose only job seemed to be to go around kicking ass and hustling chicks on the set … who all mysteriously got better jobs. It’s not what you know …
We worked hard long days – bused in at 5 in the morning and often leaving sometimes late in the evening.
As I said, I never saw any of the Stars. There were several Locations in the area and I always seemed to working somewhere else.
Later, I got a temporary job with an outfit called F&D (Fast & Dirty) Scene Changes building the train station that was used in the movie – in a large hanger in Calgary. The station was then dismantled and shipped down to Senora California (that’s where the train was) and reassembled for some scenes that really take very little time in the movie. Clint has a blank cheque in Hollywood – his movies make money.
I hope I don’t sound too jaded – it was a worthy experience.
I’m sure I can come up with a few dozen  more anecdotes surrounding my experience with Unforgiven … and I will.

Westward Ho !!!