![]() ![]() Where there's elements of your life that you understand completely and then there's elements of it where you have almost no understanding and no awareness that you don't understand. Which I think probably is true of anything, or for a lot of people. And there's a lot of self-awareness in Marcus and then a tremendous lack of it. Were there stories you wanted to set up or tropes you wanted to set up early precisely so you could play with them?Ī: The funny thing is Marcus is playing with them. I'm thinking particularly of that early scene where Marcus talks about going out in a blaze of glory. Q: This is a story about people who self-mythologize and tell stories about themselves. So I jumped at the chance to talk to Sheridan about "Hell or High Water," the economic collapse and the stories about Native Americans that he thinks Hollywood desperately needs to tell. ![]() In the movie's best scene, Alberto, who is half-Mexican and half-Native American, tells Marcus that the white people who conquered the West are now simply experiencing their inevitable decline and fall, rather than riding into the sunset with their sense of racial superiority intact. Using a clever heist story, writer Taylor Sheridan and director David Mackenzie manage to find a new, queasy angle on the Great Recession and an unnerving metaphor for the decline of certain American communities. ![]() "Hell or High Water," which follows Toby and Tanner Howard (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) as they begin robbing branches of the bank that's about to foreclose on their mother's home, as well as Texas Rangers Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) and Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham), is the best movie I've seen in 2016. Jeff Bridges, left, plays Marcus Hamilton and Gil Birmingham plays Alberto Parker in the film "Hell or High Water." Photo: CBS Films/HO ![]()
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