Films Shot in Winnipeg: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Journey to the Center of the...
- ISBN-10
- 123048020X
- ISBN-13
- 9781230480206
- Pages
- 30
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- University-Press.org
- Author
- Source Wikipedia
Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 28. Chapters: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Capote, The Saddest Music in the World, List of TV and films shot in Winnipeg, Shall We Dance?, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, The Lookout, The Tracey Fragments, New in Town, For Keeps, Leaving Metropolis, Foodland, The Divide, My Winnipeg, Something Beneath, Full of It, Wild Cherry, Night Mayor, Blue State, Trucks, Faces in the Crowd, You Kill Me, The Heart of the World, For Angela, The Good Life, Archangel, TuTuMUCH, Zeyda and the Hitman, Stryker, Woman Wanted, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, Ted Baryluk's Grocery, Careful, One Last Dance, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Mob Story, Black Ice. Excerpt: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (often shortened to The Assassination of Jesse James or simply as Jesse James) is a 2007 American Western drama film. The film is directed by Andrew Dominik, with Brad Pitt portraying Jesse James and Casey Affleck as his killer, Robert Ford. Filming took place in rural Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially intended for a 2006 release, it was postponed and re-edited for a September 21, 2007 release. An adaptation of Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name, the film dramatizes the relationship between James and Ford. This is Pitt's and Affleck's first collaboration outside of the Ocean's trilogy. The film was adapted from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name. Unlike Jesse James movies of the past, Andrew Dominik's film is presented as a psychoanalytical historical epic rather than a shoot-'em-up western. The movie details the outlaw's deteriorating psyche during his final months of life as he slowly succumbs to paranoia and develops a precarious friendship with his eventual assassin, Robert Ford. The strange...
