Dolarhyde leads the Apaches into battle, despite their superiority in guerrilla warfare Lonergan assaults the Castle base, despite being partnered with a presumably-much-more-powerful alien sidekick. There are explosions and extraordinary CGI stunts and solid performances from grizzled professionals, as one would expect from a summer blockbuster.Īs with Dances with wolves, the white man is central. Jon Favreau directs an all-star cast of actors in the 2011 film Cowboys & Aliens including, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, and many others. The most interesting character in the film is colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde, a racist, brutal, tyrannical white cattle baron played by Harrison Ford, who despite his prejudices teams up with a group of Chiricahua Apache, who have also had relatives abducted by the aliens (“the Castle”), and with a band of white robbers who have previously stolen from Dolarhyde himself. In the first minutes of Cowboys and Aliens, Lonergan/Craig kills three white bounty hunters who have scalps hanging from their saddles, an interesting statement of intent for the film. (Spoilers ahead, by the way.) The hero of the film, Jake Lonergan, is played by Daniel Craig, the left-leaning James Bond (whose 2008 film Quantum of Solace referenced the Bolivian people’s successful struggle against water privatisation). The film cost $18m to make, took $424m at the box office worldwide, and won the Oscar for best picture.įlash forward to 2011, and a new politically-correct western: Cowboys and Aliens. COWBOYS & ALIENS is a sci-fi action thriller, set in the late 19th Century, in which a cowboy joins forces with a disparate group of locals when their small. But later in the film before they attack the alien stronghold when hes talking, his teeth are perfect. Add more and vote on your favourites The biggest mistakes you never noticed in Cowboys & Aliens (2011). One exception was Dances with wolves (1990, directed by and starring Kevin Costner), which is highly sympathetic to Native Americans. The biggest mistakes you never noticed in Cowboys & Aliens (2011). According to, the interior scenes of Cowboys & Aliens were filmed on the Universal studio backlot in Los Angeles, but all.
There are a few exceptions, but taken as a whole, the genre is one long glorification of the conquest and extermination of the indigenous peoples of North America. The history of the cowboy film is shameful.