와일드 빌 (1995)
Wild Bill
최고의 총잡이로, 명 보안관으로 명성을 떨치던 빌. 그는 거칠면서도 의리 있고, 매력이 넘치는 사나이 중의 사나이. 보안관 시절, 그는 무법도시를 평정하려 하지만 그만 적으로 오인한 부하를 죽이고 그 사건으로 인해 이곳 저곳을 떠돌아 다닌다. 또한 녹내장을 앓고있는 그는 시력을 점점 잃어가고 있었고, 짧으면 2년 내에 앞을 볼 수 없게 된다는 진단을 받는다. 그러나 그의 모험심은 그치지 않았고, 어느 도시를 가도 그의 명성은 화려하게 남아 있었다. 그가 어디를 가건 남자들은 그와 같은 삶을 살고 싶어했고, 여자들은 그를 사랑했으며, 무법자들은 자신의 명성을 얻기 위해 그에게 총구를 겨눴다. 빌은 떠돌이 생활을 잠시 접고 찰스와 함께 거친 황야 데드우드 협곡으로 온다. 사기꾼, 술꾼, 포주와 창녀가 넘치는 곳. 채찍, 주먹, 칼과 총이 가득한 무법의 환락도시. 그곳에서도 빌의 명성은 신화로 전해져 오고있었고, 그는 사람들의 환영을 받는다. 그러나 잭 맥컬이라는 청년은 어머니의 한을 풀기 위해 “와일드 빌을 죽이러 왔다”며 큰 소리 친다. 그러나 빌은 아직 애송이인 그의 겁 없는 발언을 호탕하게 받아넘기며 신경 쓰지 않는데.....
출연진
- 제프 브리지스 — Wild Bill Hickok
- 앨런 바킨 — Calamity Jane
- 존 허트 — Charley Prince
- 다이앤 레인 — Susannah Moore
- 키스 캐러딘 — Buffalo Bill Cody
- 데이비드 아켓 — Jack McCall
- 크리스티나 애플게이트 — Lurline
- 브루스 던 — Will Plummer
- James Gammon — California Joe
- Marjoe Gortner — Preacher
- 제임스 리마 — Donnie Lonigan
- Karen Huie — Song Lew
흥미로운 사실
- 제작비: US$3000만
Wild Bill is a 1995 American biographical Western film about the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok. The film was written and directed by Walter Hill, and based on the 1978 stage play Fathers and Sons by Thomas Babe and the 1986 novel Deadwood by Pete Dexter. It stars Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, and Diane Lane, and was released by United Artists on December 1, 1995. It was a box-office bomb, grossing $2.1 million on a budget of $30 million, and received mixed reviews from critics.
Production
The script was based on several sources. One of them was the play Fathers and Sons which had been on Broadway in 1978, directed by Joseph Papp. It was written by Thomas Babe, and focused on Hickok's last days in Deadwood, placing the action in the saloon where he was killed. Babe says he entirely made up the nature of Jack McCall, whom he turned into Hickok's illegitimate son.
Meanwhile, the team of Richard and Lili Zanuck had optioned a 1986 novel about Hickok called Deadwood. They had hired the author, Pete Dexter, to write the script for the movie Rush. The Zanucks said they were interested in the project because it explored the nature of celebrity in a Western context. "Figures like Wild Bill were like rock stars," said Lili Zanuck.
"He's a gutsy director," Zanuck said about Hill. "He's kind of a male-oriented director, and he has great knowledge of the West and all of the folklore and all of the heroes."
Hill wrote a script based on the play, the novel, and Ned Wynn's screenplay. Hill says he took details of the town from the novel but the relationship between McCall and Hickok was mostly from the play. Hill took material from Dexter's novel for the atmosphere of the town and relied on Babe's play heavily for the third act, the last hours of Hickok.
Hill said the script was based on "character rather than incident. Because I think it's not so much the fights, it's his personality, his sense of humor about himself. He seemed to understand his own legend. He both fueled it and was a prisoner of it, that it was his raison d'etre, and at the same time he felt himself very constrained by it."
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