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Western Destinies Right: Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) casts an apprehensive glance at Jesse as his idol and tormentor discovers an unpleasant news item in the morning paper. Below: As pressure mounts on Ford to kill James, the reluctant assassin confers with his anxious brother, Charley (Sam Rockwell). focal-length lenses. I also like the scale of that format — the intimacy — and the texture of the film grain. In some cases I find anamorphic to be almost too clean, too grain-free and pristine. Jesse James is a traditional period Western and No Country is set in the contemporary West, but the films seem to address similar themes. Deakins: That’s interesting, actually. Andrew Dominik is a really meticulous guy, and he did a lot of research for Jesse James, which is based on a fantastic novel by Ron Hansen that’s full of detail and really sets you in that world. Andrew was always saying, ‘We’re basically making a Victorian Western.’ The West of Jesse James was not like most movies you see about that era. Times were changing, and things were becoming much more modern. No Country is thematically similar in some ways because it’s also about the changing of the West. Sheriff Bell [played by Tommy Lee Jones] is kind of lost because the criminal world has changed so much beyond his imagination — he can’t understand it anymore. I think there’s a really good parallel between James and Bell, because neither can really function in the modern world. They’re aging, they’re thinking about death, and they’re struggling to understand what’s going on around them. Jesse James was your first project with Dominik, whereas you’ve worked with the Coens many times. How different were your working relationships with the directors? Deakins: Very different. I’ve had a very long relationship with the Coens, so after prep we don’t really 32 October 2007
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Editor’s Note
Letters
DVD Playback
Production Slate
Western Destinies
Emotional Betrayal
Palace Intrigue
Unsafe Passage
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New Products & Services
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