In a recent interview with LA Times, Harrison Ford - who portrays Colonel Dolarhyde in the upcoming adaptation of
Cowboys & Aliens - discusses what it was like to work with director Jon Favreau, praising not only his directing skills but his acting as well. He goes on to talk about his thoughts on action movies in general, and that
Cowboys & Aliens will be different.
On working with Jon Favreau...
“It’s been really gratifying, I have to say. A lot of that is because of Jon, who has surprised me with his spirit and his insight, and I only say that I was surprised because I knew him better as an actor than as a filmmaker. He’s a very clever actor but as a director he’s shown that he can solve the problems that come up every day and not become mechanical.”
On his thoughts concerning other action movies...
“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale. With the CGI, suddenly there’s a thousand enemies instead of six – the army goes off into the horizon. You don’t need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That’s something that’s consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that’s a soulless enterprise. It’s all kinetics without emotion. I don’t have time for that.”
Cowboys & Aliens hits theaters July 29th, later this year!
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