An ultra-stylish attempt to spin the
gunslinging bounty hunter from a little-known 1970s comicbook series into the stuff of movie myth, this supernatural neo-Western actioner earns some distinction by virtue of its grungy post-Civil War settings and offbeat casting.
But there was only one apparent howl of derision on the first night, obviously from a punter who has not yet realised that capable local ensembles are growing up and shedding the decades-long preoccupation with carousels of crooning cowboys inhabiting meadows of swaying corn and cruising virtuous
gunslinging gals.
Of course,
gunslinging has a bad connotation in business, where planning and strategy are nouns more prized.
Hailing from the perogy-belt town of Vermilion, this husky, goateed member of the heating and plumbing Snelgroves was a protege of and replacement MLA for the Klein revolution's main enforcer: the
gunslinging Steve West.
Remember all our judgmental puritans,
gunslinging desperadoes, choleric nativism, the Battling Bickersons, the gangs of New York.
Booty's
gunslinging nature benefited from another key stat.
It's supposed to be written by a middle-aged, macho, male,
gunslinging correspondent constantly in the line of fire.
Although Hollywood likes to portray cowboys as
gunslinging ne'er-do-wells, many were in fact conscientious men who endured hard lives working with the herds
Hacker will be seen as a
gunslinging Pinkerton agent in the final hour of the new NBC-TV movie The Legend of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.
Unlike the looting,
gunslinging and antisocial action of the Arabs and their so-called society, an immense mass much greater than all of Iraq reacted with dignity and restraint.
The hidden riches, buried deep in the soil and below the rivers, continue to draw the strike-it-rich dreamers, drifters and
gunslinging prospectors--as well as the giant multinational mining companies.
Indeed, the pulp-fiction qualities of the novel, manifest in the scurrilous roman noir characters (Schmutz and his band of
gunslinging gangsters), can be included in the palate of styles that Ahrens includes in his sublimation of the romantic heritage.
