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'The English', a new vision of the 'western'

2022-12-07T04:27:53.834Z


Hugo Blick's series is an excellent twist on the genre, with a cast in which an extraordinary Emily Blunt stands out


John Ford dignified the

western

with masterpieces like

Desert Centaurs

.

The Coen brothers updated it with the new version of Henry Hathaway's True

Grit

.

Now he arrives in the field of television series.

The English

, with a script and direction by Hugo Blick, is undoubtedly an excellent twist on the genre, with a cast in which an extraordinary Emily Blunt stands out, splendidly wrapped up by Chaske Spencer, Tom Hughes and Stephen Rea, among others.

A story that takes place in 1890 and in which the desire for revenge of a wealthy British lady in search of the culprit of the death of her son, the dignity of a

Pawnee

explorer who served in the Union army and who yearns to recover the lands that the whites seized from their own, and an inevitable and subtle love story between the protagonists, immersed, yes, in a violent and cruel atmosphere as the years after the genocide of the American Indians and greed were supposed to be. of those who carried it out in the promised land.

Emily Blunt, star of 'The English'.Photographer: Diego Lopez Calvin

The atypical leading couple survives numerous obstacles in their long pilgrimage in search of achieving their goals, a path in which they will face the worst villains in which racism and misogyny complement their cruelty and yet the series flows with coherence. of a good script.

Anecdotally, it is worth mentioning that the six episodes of the BBC production that HBO Max shows in Spain place the action on the plains of Kansas and Wyoming.

The magic on screen achieved the verisimilitude of the landscapes despite being filmed in Castilla and on a farm in Ávila.

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Source: elparis

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