Sam Elliott Slams ‘Allusions of Homosexuality’ in ‘Power of the Dog’: ‘They’re All Running Around in Chaps and No Shirts’
usmagazine.comNot a fan. The Power of the Dog may be a critically acclaimed film — and nominated for 12 Academy Awards — but Sam Elliott has major issues with how the cowboys are portrayed.“They’re running around in chaps and no shirts.
There’s all these allusions of homosexuality throughout the movie,” Elliott, 77, said during an episode of Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast on Monday, February 28, referring to the men as Chippendale dancers who “wear bow ties and not much else.”The California native, who called the film a “piece of s–t,” also questioned whether there were any Western themes in The Power of the Dog.“Cumberbatch never got out of his f–king chaps.
He had two pairs of chaps: a woolly pair and a leather pair,” he pointed out, referring to Benedict Cumberbatch. “Every f–king time he would walk in from somewhere — he never was on a horse, maybe once — he’d walk into the f–king house, storm up the f–king stairs, go lay in his bed in his chaps, and play his banjo.
It’s like, what the f–k?”For Elliott, the biggest problem was director Jane Campion‘s choice to recreate the state of Montana in her native New Zealand.“What the f–k does this woman from down there know about the American West?” he asked, noting that Campion, 67, was a “brilliant” director in the past. “Why the f–k did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana?
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