After a stop in Venice earlier this month, Walter Hill’s latest film, “Dead for a Dollar,” headed west for the U.S. premiere. The prolific filmmaker of such movies as “The W…
, Benjamin Bratt and Warren Burke praised the writer-director, already renowned for his revival of the Western genre, for making another Western.
“He is kind of the same guy and I am kind of the same guy. I had such a good experience on ‘Streets of Fire.’ He gave me so much; he gave me fun things to do,” Dafoe recalled. “He is so direct and he knows film so well; he is kind of a no-nonsense kind of guy. He has this great intellect, but he doesn’t wear it on his sleeve. He is smart, he is wise and that only comes from the humility he has. He has great knowledge and he is fun to be around.
“The Western genre is so beloved because you go into it as an audience member with a pretty clear expectation of what you are going to get. There is going to be a battle between good and evil, and there is a showdown at the end of the story,” Bratt said.
“I thought there was really so many immigrants in the West, so that was the feeling of the light coming on,” he said about coming up with the concept. “And I wanted somebody very American to be the antagonist and a worthy opponent, obviously, not just a villain. But I then borrowed the plot of the ‘Iliad,’ and that is one of the things I used to tell people, ‘Don’t worry about the story, we know it works, it has been great for 2,700 years.
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