Movie-A-Day #191: Silverado

[Brian in Mesa]

Silverado

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Cast: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John Cleese, Rosanna Arquette, Brian Dennehy, Linda Hunt, Jeff Goldblum, Lynn Whitfield, Jeff Fahey, Amanda Wyss, Earl Hindman, etc.

Plot summary from Amazon: Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone--sometimes rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowpokes converge on a little Western burg called Silverado; they're played by Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and the rowdy young Kevin Costner. Kasdan peppers the somewhat generic action with smart dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight from a Monty Python sketch into an Old West saloon. Bruce Broughton supplies the music, a real throwback to the glory days of thundering Western themes.

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To me, this has always been a fun movie. Great cast, many memorable scenes.

If I'm flipping through the stations and it's on, I'll usually watch it. Saw it in the theater originally, a few times on VHS, and a few times on tv. Would like to get it on DVD eventually. Recently a 2-Disc Gift Set was released with many more extras.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

I thought we start on Monday???

That sucks, I was thinking about this movie...I love it...a great western, great actors, and all that jazz.

Mike

 

[Pariah]

This is the movie that got me into Westerns. Yeah, it seems like an odd entree into the genre, but it was much more accessable to a high-schooler than was some of the old spaghetti-westerns which I've come to love.

Fun flick!

 

[Chaplin]

I thought we start on Monday???

That sucks, I was thinking about this movie...I love it...a great western, great actors, and all that jazz.

Mike

Monday is the "Official" start, but BIM can start earlier if he wants...

 

[Chaplin]

Silverado


To me, this has always been a fun movie. Great cast, many memorable scenes.

If I'm flipping through the stations and it's on, I'll usually watch it. Saw it in the theater originally, a few times on VHS, and a few times on tv. Would like to get it on DVD eventually. Recently a 2-Disc Gift Set was released with many more extras.

It's actually a great little set, I ended up getting the one with the playing cards. Strange packaging, but kinda cool if you're into the gimmicky collectable DVD stuff (like me)... LOL

Nice little movie, not my favorite Western, but it was nice to have a movie like this come out when for all intents and purposes, the genre was "dead". I'm still waiting for it to make another comeback. Movies like Unforgiven and Open Range give me high hopes.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

This is the movie that got me into Westerns.

Very cool.

I got into them by way of the old Eastwood Westerns and by watching those shown on tv in the 70's/80's.

 

[Chaplin]

Silverado Trivia:

* Earl Hindman plays Wilson on "Home Improvement" (1991) where the lower half of his face is always obscured. In the scene where the house is on fire, he appears gagged, with the lower half of his face obscured.

* Kevin Costner was offered the role of Jake by Lawrence Kasdan, in part to make up for his role in The Big Chill being cut out of that film.

* The set for Silverado was built for this movie and has since been used in such movies as Young Guns (1988), Wyatt Earp (1994), Last Man Standing (1996), "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini), All the Pretty Horses (2000) and Wild Wild West (1999). In Wild Wild West "Kasdan Ironworks" can be seen on the side of one of the buildings as a reference to Lawrence Kasdan.

* Producer Lawrence Kasdan cast 2 of his children and his wife in small roles in the film. His brother Mark also had a small role as a doctor that was filmed but ending up on the cutting room floor.

* Shooting lasted 96 days between November 1984 and March 1985

* In the scene where Augie tries to jump on Jake's horse and falls to the ground, the horse is wearing Jake's hat. This was Costner's idea just before the cameras rolled to keep with his character's goofy nature. Kasdan loved the idea and it stayed in the film.

That was a LONG shoot...

 

[UncleChris]

Loved this movie and own it. Not the greatest of all westerns, but perhaps in the top 10.