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Posted by Harmonia (A) on January 28, 2008 at 20:46:02

In Reply to: RE: Really, who could pay attention to that clinker? A cold-blooded killer posted by tinear on January 28, 2008 at 12:05:29

Tin, the turnabout is in the book.

It's in the script.

That's the way the actor played it. That's the way the director wanted it.

This is not OUATITW. You may not like or buy 3:10 to Yuma but don't blame it on Crowe wanting to whitewash his character.

Be careful of putting your own hobbyhorse onto Crowe. Crowe may be guilty of much but not of this particular sin. If you must lay blame lay it on the right sinner

For all Crowe's off camera shennenigans and massive ego, he generally plays it straight with scripts and is not known for being overly protective of his characters in that way - he's possessive of his roles and he's certainly script conscious but he's generally not at all worried about looking pretty or being a nice guy on the screen.

You may be thinking of Mel Gibson, who demanded his dark character in 1999's Payback be given redeeming qualities. Gibson and writer/director Brian Helgeland famously clashed bigtime over it. The star got Payback taken away from Helgeland, much to the movie's detriment. (Helgeland was fired the week after he won an Oscar for LA Confidential.) Payback was eventually recut/restored/re-edited by the director in 2006.

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And totally OT, I loved Alan Tuddyk's character in 3:10 to Yuma.