There’s a new version of The Magnificent Seven currently in theaters, this time directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington. The film’s racially diverse cast, a distinct departure from the white-dominated 1960 version directed by John Sturges, has garnered a great deal of attention, with some accusing Fuqua of politically correct pandering or even tokenism. But in an eye-opening new article for The Atlantic entitled “How Hollywood Whitewashed The Old West,” writer Leah Williams reveals that this new Magnificent Seven may actually present a much more accurate version of America’s frontier past than its predecessor ever did. In fact, audiences have come to think of cowboys as being all but exclusively white because of the conventions of Hollywood filmmaking. It has no real basis in historical fact. The real West was diverse, even if no one at the time would have used that term to describe ...
- 10/6/2016
- by Joe Blevins
- avclub.com
Dermot Mulroney will be doing the voice-overs for Fox News Channel’s first crack at what it’s calling a “run of historical episodic specials,” Legends & Lies: The Real West. The 10 hour-long episodes will recount stories of well-known characters of this country’s Western expansion in the 19th century including Jesse James, David Crockett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid. Fnc promises the project will, in each case, “separate the legend from the lie.” Bill O’Reilly is exec…...
- 3/31/2015
- Deadline TV
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