Sam Elliot slams ‘The Power of the Dog’ as ‘piece of s---’ film: ‘Where’s the Western in this Western?’
foxnews.comSam Elliot is none too pleased with the recognition "The Power of the Dog" is receiving ahead of the Oscars. The actor slammed the film, which is nominated for 12 Academy Awards.
During an episode of "WTF With Marc Maron," Elliot, 77, was asked if he had seen the film yet, to which Elliot replied: "You want to talk about that piece of s---?" Elliot referenced a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times that featured a review blurb that described the film as "an evisceration of the American myth." "I thought, what the f---?" Elliott said of the adaptation from the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. "This is a guy who has done Westerns his entire life. ‘The evisceration of the American myth.’ It looked like — what are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bow ties and not much else?
Remember them from back in the day?" Sam Elliott had choice words to say about the 12-time Oscar nominated film, ‘The Power of the Dog.’ (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg) "Oh, the Chippendales?" Maron replied. "That’s what all these f--k-ng cowboys in that movie looked like.They’re all running around in chaps and no shirts.There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f---ing movie," Elliott said.
Maron replied, "Yeah, I think that’s what the movie’s about," speaking to the fact Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, Phil Burbank, is homosexual and has yet to come out of the closet.
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