Copernicus Is A Fan Of Christian Bale In Hostiles From Tiff

Copernicus is a fan of Christian Bale in HOSTILES Read the full article on AICN I’m a big Western fan.  It is an iconic American art form interwoven with our national identity.  Since it has been around for more than a century, we’ve seen just about every kind — the straightforward western, the deconstructed western, the Japanese western, and even the sci-fi western.  But it does bug me that there are so few made today, given that filmmaking technology and cultural sensitivity have both come a long way since the golden age of the Western.  Plus, Westerns, like science fiction, are a great canvas on which to project the issues of the day.  We have plenty of issues in need of reinterpretation outside of our overly charged political climate. By cultural sensitivity, I don’t mean just taking Cowboys = good guys and Indians = bad guys and flipping it.  That reeks too much of the “noble savage” idea, and can be as one dimensional as the reverse.  I mean recognizing that there were many different nations in the American west, each with their own cultural heritage.  And we are all better off when actual Native Americans play their ancestors in the films, instead of white actors in makeup.