Right from the first scene of 1995’s “The Quick and the Dead,” director Sam Raimi makes it clear that he’s playfully toying with his audience.We open on a quintessential Western image: a lone figure atop a horse, galloping through a barren landscape towards the distant camera.
The title card “Russell Crowe” floats just underneath the approaching rider, tacitly implying that the actor and the cowboy in the shot are one and the same.
As the lens continues to pull back, our focus shifts to the frantic digger in the foreground, searching for…The post Sam Raimi’s Western F****** Rules appeared first on /Film.
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