Wind River 2017
Sheridan's directorial debut, closing out his self-described frontier trilogy. Chris calls it more John Ford than his first two scripts, wide open and mournful, until the last act detonates.
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Taylor Sheridan, 'Wind River,' and How to Write a Killer Movie | The Big Picture (Ep. 20)
August 4, 2017/ 27 min/ Sean Fennessey · Chris Ryan
Sean and Chris break down Taylor Sheridan's frontier trilogy before Sheridan himself comes on to talk directing his own script for the first time.
11 films across 3 segments.
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The Sheridan TrilogySicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River
Sicario 2015
Denis Villeneuve's film of Sheridan's script. Chris: an Apocalypse Now for the drug war, with Emily Blunt as the audience's moral compass getting dismantled by Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin.
Hell or High Water 2016
David Mackenzie directs Sheridan's bank-robbery script. Chris reads it as a ghost-town West: a depopulated frontier, brothers robbing banks to save their mother's farm from foreclosure.
The Jeremy Renner CaseChris makes his pitch for an underused actor
The Bourne Legacy 2012
Chris's admitted minority position: he thinks Renner is genuinely excellent here.
Kill the Messenger 2014
Sean's counterexample: a Renner vehicle he couldn't carry.
The Town 2010
The Hurt Locker 2008
The Immigrant 2013
Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015
The farmhouse scene with Linda Cardellini, about all the Marvel run gave him, per Chris.
In conversation
Taylor Sheridan on
Wind River 2017
Sheridan on directing his own script for the first time: every decision is now his to make, with nobody else to delegate it to.
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