(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Sam Elliott, an actor who has spent 56 years in Hollywood, called the highly acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film “The Power of the Dog” a “piece of s***” that pushes homosexual themes.
Set in 1925 Montana, the film portrays two brothers, Phil and George, who own and operate a family ranch, and Phil harasses George when he brings home a new wife and her child. Phil exhibits homosexual traits throughout the movie.
Elliott said the movie failed to accurately depict cowboys, and the writers ruined it with constant “allusions of homosexuality,” Yahoo Entertainment reported.
He criticized The Power of the Dog, which has received 12 Oscar nominations, in an interview on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast.
Elliott, who has starred in The Ranch, 1883, and Gunsmoke, compared Netflix’s The Power of the Dog to Chippendales, a male striptease act.
“That’s what all these f***ing cowboys in that movie looked like,” he said. “They’re running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions of homosexuality throughout the movie.”
Maron said that characters in the film implied that Phil, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, is a closeted homosexual.
Elliott called the film’s director, Jane Campion, “brilliant,” but he criticized her choices in this film.
“What the f*** does this woman from down there know about the American West?,” Elliott said, pointing out that Campion lives and works in New Zealand.
“Why the f*** did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana?,” he continued. “And say ‘this is the way it was’?”
Elliott said Phil never displayed characteristics that reflect the real cowboy culture.
“Where’s the western in this western? I mean, Cumberbatch never got out of his f****** chaps,” he said.
“He had two pairs of chaps — a woolly pair and a leather pair,” he continued. “And every f***ing time he would walk in from somewhere — he never was on a horse — he’d walk in to the f***ing house, storm up the f***ing stairs, go lay in his bed, in his chaps and play the banjo.”
