![]() The story shows us how a cowboy out on the vast range, isolated by big sweeping scenes, with only his horse to keep him company, enters into the new century. He eventually heads home and then we are drawn into a turn of the century frontier settlement juxtapositioned with the old west sweeping sky lines and open ranges slowly encroached by the advent of Westward Expansion and technology. In the opening scenes, we watch a cowboy as he and his horse graze the high country a scene that could occur at any time within our frontier history. It is a classic Western that is as priceless as anything given to us from both Johns Wayne and Ford. The product is a Western equally worthy of mentioning in the same short list as Unforgiven, Silverado, 3:10 to Yuma and recent others. What ensued was The Good Ole Boys as we know it. He wanted more than Turner and his execs were offering as the lead actor, but agreed to sign on to the project for less if he could be given free reign to direct, which was a bargain for the price. ![]() ![]() As I recall from trade mags, back when this flick first came out, TNT approached TLJ to be the lead, but at the time, he was pondering his future in the film industry and was considering directing.
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