{"id":35364,"date":"2024-03-07T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35364"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:13:36","slug":"open-range-trivia-from-kevin-costner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35364","title":{"rendered":"“Open Range” – Trivia from Kevin Costner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects posted 45 Things We Learned from Kevin Costner\u2019s \u2018Open Range\u2019<\/em> Commentary. <\/strong>(Sadly the piece is no longer available.)\u00a0\u00a0Open Range<\/em> is one of my favorite westerns.\u00a0 But here are three of my favorite pieces of trivia from the piece and my comments on each…<\/p>\n

He (Costner) likes to keep one or two things from a production as mementos, and here it was the chloroform bottle from the doctor\u2019s house. \u201cI also kept my guns.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>(I think it’s cool Costner keeps momentos from his films. It’d be interesting to see what he kept from each movie on his resume. – Craig)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had a thing about reloading in movies,\u201d he says, and he hates when characters shoot off more shots than the gun actually holds. That said, he admits that the start of the shootout sees Charley unload on a guy by \u201cfanning\u201d his revolver and firing more than six shots. \u201cThe fanning is such a mythical part of the western, and I hadn\u2019t seen it in such a long time, that I had no way of justifying other than hell\u2019s bells I wanted to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>(I agree that heroes that never reload can be irritating, but I absolutely agree with Costner’s choice in this instance.\u00a0 I’ll bet most folks didn’t even notice. – Craig)<\/p>\n

One of the things he felt was important was to follow the main street shootout with a look at the aftermath. \u201cThere are consequences for violence. Horses get killed, people are injured, the little girl with the father talking to her, there are psychological repercussions that come from violence, and while conventional wisdom is \u2018come on, let\u2019s get on with it,\u2019 I wanted to touch on it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>(Movies that have a lot of violence without showing the consequences become cartoon-like.\u00a0 Costner made an excellent choice to give the movie gravitas. – Craig)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects posted 45 Things We Learned from Kevin Costner\u2019s \u2018Open Range\u2019 Commentary. (Sadly the piece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39833,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35364\/revisions\/39833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}