The evisceration of the American West, they look like, what are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bow ties and not much else? Remember them from back in the day?” (Chippendales dancers, Maron pointed out.) Elliott replied: “You wanna talk about that piece of shit?”Įlliott says his issues with The Power of the Dog could be summarized by a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times with a blurb which “talked about ‘the evisceration of the American myth.’” He continued, “I thought, What the fuck? What the fuck? This is the guy that’s done Westerns forever. It all began when comedian Marc Maron asked Elliott if he’d seen the film, which was recently nominated for a field-leading 12 Oscars. That would be frequent Western headliner Sam Elliott, who made his many, many feelings about The Power of the Dog known on a recent episode of WTF With Marc Maron. There’s at least one cowboy who doesn’t wish to cross paths with Bronco Henry.
