Good looking and secretly intellectual after a fashion (he plays opera and reads his late doctor father’s weighty tomes when no one else is around), he’s got a gift for lazy gab and is involved with a woman, the overly eager Amy Stanton (Kate Hudson), from one of the town’s best families.
The tone of Winterbottom’s film, which is set in the period and was lensed in Oklahoma (Thompson’s home state) and New Mexico, is set by the raspy high timbre of Casey Affleck’s voice, which dominates through his abundant dialogue and frequent narration.Īffleck’s deputy sheriff Lou Ford of Central City in West Texas is sure of himself, although not so prone to cheshire cat grinning as the man in the novel. Filmed once before in a scarcely seen 1976 version directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Stacy Keach, Thompson’s warped first-person tome about a homicidal Texas lawman had a famous early fan in Stanley Kubrick, who hired the novelist to work on his first two significant pictures, “The Killing” and “Paths of Glory.”
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