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Yeah, just ain't no peace with old Jesse around. You oughta pity my poor wife. In this episode, Patrick has chosen Andrew Dominik’s stately 2007 turn of the century outlaw death march The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford . An increasingly paranoid, deeply traumatised Jesse James (Brad Pitt), by now already one of the most famous men in America after a string of daring train and bank robberies, finds himself at the head of a rapidly crumbling gang of misfits. Among the last of his acolytes is the callow new recruit Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a 19 year old who believes he could do great things alongside the man whose antics he obsessively catalogues from nickel fiction and newspaper clippings. Their attraction and repulsion simmers towards an inevitable conclusion telegraphed right in the title, while the viewer is left to untangle the snake knot of motivations of the doomed pair. Released in a banner year for modern cinema, the film struggled to find the audience that some of its more garlanded, vaguely Western-adjacent peers like No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood garnered. Patrick, Devlin and Gali recall their trip to the cinema together almost 15 years ago, and how their relationship with the film has changed, while first-time viewer Matt weighs in with a fresh perspective. Is this an underrepresented gem unfairly overlooked? Or an overcooked stew of underwhelming miserablism? Outro Song - '"Just Like Jesse James" (1989) - Cher If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviepodcast or @galithegreek (Gali), ( @quilllicker (Devlin), ( @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), and join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/ or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com Thank you for listening and if you like the show please press that subscribe button and leave us a little review, MANY THANKS!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i
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