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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures

2024/6/21
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Kevin Costner: 科斯特纳认为，传统的西部片常常忽略了城镇建立过程中对原住民造成的巨大影响，他的作品《地平线》试图从一个全新的视角，展现这段历史，关注原住民的视角和遭遇，以及白人拓荒者对他们生活方式的破坏。他认为，好的西部片应该注重真实性，场景、语言、服装和建筑等元素应与现实相符，并对人物进行深入的刻画和性格塑造。科斯特纳还谈到了好莱坞的电影制作模式，以及他为了完成《地平线》而自掏腰包投资巨额资金的经历。他坚持自己的创作理念，不盲目追逐潮流，并对电影的后期运作和收益拥有完全的控制权。科斯特纳认为，优秀的电影能够超越时代和群体界限，打动观众，并能够经受时间的考验。他并不关注影评，而是专注于创作本身。科斯特纳还谈到了年龄对演员的影响，以及他对于未来职业规划的想法。 David Remnick: David Remnick作为访谈者，引导科斯特纳讲述了他对西部片创作的理念，以及《地平线》这部电影的创作过程和背后的故事。他与科斯特纳探讨了电影制作的资金问题、好莱坞的电影制作模式、以及科斯特纳对美国历史和原住民的看法。Remnick还就科斯特纳的政治立场、以及他对于电影评论的态度等问题进行了提问。

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Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genres of movies, but a constant in his filmography is the Western. One of his first big roles was in “Silverado,” alongside Kevin Kline and Danny Glover; he directed “Dances with Wolves,” which won seven Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture; more recently, Costner starred as the rancher John Dutton in the enormously successful “Yellowstone).” Perhaps no actor since Clint Eastwood is more associated with the genre. Throughout his career, Costner has also been working on a project called “Horizon: An American Saga.” Too lengthy and expensive for studios (Costner put up tens of millions of dollars to fund it), “Horizon” evolved over decades into a series of four films about the founding of a town in the West. Part 1, which involves the destruction wrought on Native communities by white settlement, comes out next week. While the politics of the genre have evolved, “there were certain dilemmas that [Westerns] established,” he tells David Remnick, that were timeless. “They talked to me about character and just as important, lack of character.”