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Thurr's a FEUD goin' on! [Hatfields and McCoys]
Cantido
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIWdXYm8bcThe Hatfields and McCoys. All I know about them is from old Warner Brothers and Hanna Barbera. The History Channel makes an attempt to tell a darker tale than cartoons of old with their new show Hartfields and McCoys.
IF THE default state of life in nature is “nasty, brutish and short,” as philosopher Thomas Hobbes suggested in the 17th century, the Hatfields and McCoys were in perfect harmony with the world around them.
This ambitious six-hour dramatization of America’s most famous and lethal family feud suggests that even when these two families weren’t shooting at each other, life in the back country of Kentucky and West Virginia in the late 19th century was a battle.
The food supply was spotty, clothes look uncomfortable and health and well-being seem to be largely a matter of luck.
That this ambience comes across says producer/star Kevin Costner and his team have done well. “Hatfields & McCoys” doesn’t just explain a feud, it humanizes the people on both sides and reminds us how differently some of our ancestors lived just a few generations back.
Costner plays “Devil Anse” Hatfield, the patriarch of his clan.
Devil Anse is a decent man with a sharp eye for business and self-preservation.
He acquires land to start a lumber business that thrives as the Civil War ends and the country starts to grow.
He survived that war partly because, as a Confederate soldier, he rode away when he saw there was no winning for anyone.
By deserting, however, he opened a fateful breach with Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton), his close friend and fellow soldier.
Their families, also one-time friends, begin to break apart after the war, though it isn’t until the 1880s that simmering resentment and the ill-advised hot tempers of youth lead to most of the dozen killings that would be the enduring legacy of the feud.
Some of the killers are just dumb hillbillies. Others, like Devil Anse’s Uncle Jim (Tom Berenger) and even some of the womenfolk, feel their code of honor and family sometimes requires them to break some of the Ten Commandments by which they otherwise try to live.
Being six hours long, “Hatfields & McCoys” also has room for subplots like Roseanna McCoy falling in love with and then becoming pregnant by Johnse Hatfield.
While that sounds soapy, it’s used here more to illustrate the responses and feelings of other family members.
Here as in other parts of the story, there’s a darkness that sometimes makes us examine who we’re rooting for and why.
It’s also a story without a lot of conventional heroes. Here, heroism is putting one foot in front of the other, obeying more commandments than you break and maybe passing on a few lessons that will someday make the world a little less short, nasty or brutish.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/television-review-hatfields-mccoys-history-article-1.1084558#ixzz1wDTqvW5f
It's currently debuting 9PM EST. Whose watching it?
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At least it isn't another fuckin' Difficult Working Class Jobs That Are Difficult So Maybe You Should Invest in an Education™ reality series.
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The Mexicans! Of course, it's always them.
I'd be curious to see this show. Since Merry Melodies I've been shown snippets and references to this story, but I've never sat down and researched the details surrounding "the feud."
It's a part of our American history, and so tragic/stupid. It's almost a modern day Romeo and Juliet. I can't believe this happened so close after the civil war where so many Americans lost their lives. Just goes to show humans are at time
Too prideful/stupid.
I always knew the basics of the feud, but now want to read more about it.
Surprised to see Kevin Costner casted as the "bad guy". Not that there's a bad guy, but their family seems more in the wrong.
And the other families dipshit cousin. Times change, but lawyers stay sleezy.
Fantastic acting, sets, etc.... Can't wait to see the next 2 episodes and buy it on DVD.
Also, I recorded 2 H 6 minutes. First 40 minutes no commercials, and after that, there wasn't many it seemed. Pretty awesome.
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Given that he made $TEXAS on the oil spill cleaning machines he sold to BP last year I'm surprised he's interested in working at all
Maybe the dude just likes playing dress-up? Also he was in a string of movies after Waterworld; Postman, 3K Miles to Graceland... That one movie...
P.S. Bill Paxton is rove and less than three.
Clearly you haven't seen Justified...
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I'm pretty sure Kevin Costner's agent doesn't take any meetings unless the part calls for an aging athlete, a cowboy, or a government official.
And I think Powers Boothe probably uses the same agent.
Interesting aside: This series is directed by Kevin Reynolds, who directed Costner in three films already: Waterworld, Fandango, and Robin Hood.
The people do love them some Kevin Costner cowboy movies.