Uncover the Untold Secrets Behind Re-inventing the Western with Joe Cornet on SYS Podcast Episode 538
Joe Cornet
Well, I’ve been very lucky because I have a lot of connections to the equestrian world and with various western towns and sets and you know, from here to Arizona to Texas. And I’m lucky, luckier than most because of these connections I have, I have certain breaks and I could I could produce more economically because of people that I know, but I would say if you’re writing a Western now, if you’re writing a Western say like my third film Promise and I was very much it was very much on my mind to create a spaghetti Western flair to it as my homage to a to, you know, my favorite of the western genre really is the Italian Westerns, but I love John Wayne too and I love Kerry Cooper. So I wanted to give a nod to that, but I also wanted to have the traditional elements that you would find of good guy, evil guy in the middle, you know, sort of I used to treat it like iconic mythological characters and I’ve said this to you before that I often liken the Western genre to Greek myth because you can take many of those mythical stories and transplant them into the Western genre very easily because they, you know, two thousand years ago, they were reflecting the same themes that Western movies when they are at their best try to do. That’s what I was trying to do with a prayer for the damned incident of guilt Ridge and certainly with promised and I wanted that epic feel and look and I knew how to write it by that time and I knew what I could get my hands on and what my budget would be.
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