Uncover the Untold Secrets Behind Re-inventing the Western with Joe Cornet on SYS Podcast Episode 538
So, I wrote it specific for that. When we come to something like this now, I didn’t write the screenplay here. Craig Hammond did and he did a fine job as always but with something like this, you’re in a different territory altogether because yes, we have a lot of the mythological themes of good versus evil, honor, love, duty, things like this and that’s certainly exemplified in Alexander’s character who was actually kind of different because in this one, he’s not it’s not that he’s not heroic in this one. He’s truly playing like all ends against the middle and he’s truly out for himself and he plays a gambler and instead of being like he was in the two Rio Bravo films where he’s like out to get the bad guys no matter what at no, you know, at his cost, you know, this guy is a little bit more. He’s not duplicitous, but he’s a little bit more darker but not in a sinister way. Now, I played the villain in this which was a first for me. I actually played a villain years ago in a smaller film than I had a great time with it, but this is the first time I’ve actually played a villain and I got to tell you actually I loved every second of it. I’d get on set in costume. I’d walk around the town set with my gang. You know, I get the feel of it and I really had a good time and I tried to play this guy a little bit more kind of differently than just a traditional mean-spirited sinister villain. I mean, he’s sinister, but there’s an insouciance about him and sort of he’s very different from other villains. So when you’re doing something like this and you’re incorporating the Japanese elements, the Japanese culture elements, there’s a sumo wrestling match in it to settle a bet. The sumos get involved in the fight against the bad guys. Again, this is now you’re outside of the realm of what I was writing with the movie say promise because you’re just in different territory entirely. You’re in you’re in what you’re in Western land, but you’re in this wild kind of like who would even think of sumos in the Old West and indeed it did happen. Maybe not the way we portrayed it, but you know, so I think you have to be with something like this even more careful. uh then approaching say a traditional western or a spaghetti type western or something like that because like I said it’s a balance that you have to do and um you have to really be careful because it could very easily slip into parody and I think we basically pulled it off.
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