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apparently oliver stone is remaking Son of the Morning Star ~ my first reaction was: so soon? jeepers! then i realized that the gary cole version came out in 1991. i guess it's been a while (geh!) they don't make the 1991 version on dvd, which is irritating. even though the production is a wee cheesy, i love everyone in the cast and the costumes are great (even if the dead horses do have seams ~ honestly, whoever was in charge of shooting that battle sequence and put custer behind a stuffed "dead" horse with its seams showing shoulda been fired.
no word on the casting of the new film or any other details that i could find readily (or even if the project is stilla "go". i'm all for more westerns, but i wish they'd stop rehashing the same stories. we don't need anymore variations of the little big horn, or tombstone, or billy the kid (really, we don't). Unforgiven is one of the best westerns ever and it's an original script! can't we have some more of those, please? maybe this is what i get for complaining about the kitchen-sink of Into the West.
well, either way, something to look forward to, along with spielberg's lincoln movie.
little awful autie
at the bad little big horn
this story is better with pictures (for evidence).
as teenagers in the summer of 1989 (before the above custer movie came out), my brother and i grafittied his then-girlfriend's wall (with her parent's permission, of course). we were supposed to paint some religious images, but it was a big wall so filled in the extra space with a lot of randomness. we were then very into the Indian wars and one of the sayings we painted prominently on the wall was "Custer deserved it" (with an arrow painted stuck in the "C").
as the summer progressed (and the wall), our reading brought us to the conclusion that custer wasn't nearly the villain we'd thought at first (not to excuse anything custer ever did, but if ever there was a case of misguided, vainglorious self-righteousness, he's the perfect model). we decided that this, coupled with his horrific end and sundry other personal failings, mitigated our wrath and instead we turned to colonel chivington as the "real" evil. the custer saying was sprayed over and replaced with the possibly more enigmatic "Chivington doth burn" (replete with hellfire gradient on the burn part).
it was a very surreal summer ~ the heat was, as usual, blistering over 100 degrees, we were drinking 3 liters of Coke a session, and all the while quoting Little Big Man ad nauseum: "mr. president! you are drunk!" "poison of the goo-nads." etc., and singing gary owen (oh the pain!)
anyway, i'm sure the people in the neighborhood were perplexed. the wall faced a major thoroughfare and many people saw it. next to this egregious missive, which also at one point sported a skull and crossbones that the mother made us remove (though you can see it in first image over "Mozart"), was a painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Christ as the Good Shepherd) ~ just a little contradiction there.
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as a sad side note, the religious mural, though it made the papers and my brother was a minor celebrity for the summer, was later tarred by some unscrupulous twits who defaced the Virgin Mary. as a result, the wall was whitewashed shortly after.
and that was my summer of '89.
no word on the casting of the new film or any other details that i could find readily (or even if the project is stilla "go". i'm all for more westerns, but i wish they'd stop rehashing the same stories. we don't need anymore variations of the little big horn, or tombstone, or billy the kid (really, we don't). Unforgiven is one of the best westerns ever and it's an original script! can't we have some more of those, please? maybe this is what i get for complaining about the kitchen-sink of Into the West.
well, either way, something to look forward to, along with spielberg's lincoln movie.
little awful autie
at the bad little big horn
this story is better with pictures (for evidence).
as teenagers in the summer of 1989 (before the above custer movie came out), my brother and i grafittied his then-girlfriend's wall (with her parent's permission, of course). we were supposed to paint some religious images, but it was a big wall so filled in the extra space with a lot of randomness. we were then very into the Indian wars and one of the sayings we painted prominently on the wall was "Custer deserved it" (with an arrow painted stuck in the "C").
as the summer progressed (and the wall), our reading brought us to the conclusion that custer wasn't nearly the villain we'd thought at first (not to excuse anything custer ever did, but if ever there was a case of misguided, vainglorious self-righteousness, he's the perfect model). we decided that this, coupled with his horrific end and sundry other personal failings, mitigated our wrath and instead we turned to colonel chivington as the "real" evil. the custer saying was sprayed over and replaced with the possibly more enigmatic "Chivington doth burn" (replete with hellfire gradient on the burn part).
it was a very surreal summer ~ the heat was, as usual, blistering over 100 degrees, we were drinking 3 liters of Coke a session, and all the while quoting Little Big Man ad nauseum: "mr. president! you are drunk!" "poison of the goo-nads." etc., and singing gary owen (oh the pain!)
anyway, i'm sure the people in the neighborhood were perplexed. the wall faced a major thoroughfare and many people saw it. next to this egregious missive, which also at one point sported a skull and crossbones that the mother made us remove (though you can see it in first image over "Mozart"), was a painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Christ as the Good Shepherd) ~ just a little contradiction there.
: D
as a sad side note, the religious mural, though it made the papers and my brother was a minor celebrity for the summer, was later tarred by some unscrupulous twits who defaced the Virgin Mary. as a result, the wall was whitewashed shortly after.
and that was my summer of '89.
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Too bad some idiots had to ruin it for ya - but looks like you had a mighty fine time decorating it! ^_^
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