I don't see the Cowboy as a hired gun. He's the highest power. Ride with the devil if you want "the good life" - an ironic or understated way of saying the Hollywood dream, or perhaps the American dream.
The way the Cowboy appears and disappears is so ghostlike and nightmarish. Same way the Mystery Man in LH suddenly emerges at the party, seemingly out of thin air.
Casting for The Cowboy must've been interesting, because they found a guy who's interesting to look at, has an interesting voice, and commands attention while being soft spoken and seemingly harmless... "Two more times if you do bad." So ominous, what happens if I do bad? It's very unnerving.
I thought about it. Basically when the cowboy says that he must not care about the good life, he's calling his attitude poor. Since the director already agreed that attitude is significant to how your life is. Actually went over my head the first time I watched it
But sometimes, there's a buggy. And I'm talkin' about the Cowboy here. Sometimes, there's an aleck, well, he's the girl for his time and place. He fits right in there.
I think this is meant to be what Betty/Diane imagines happened behind the scenes to ruin her acting career and relationship. Kind of funny to think of this at Betty's idea of strong-arm tactics.
Hey yah that's some good threat. I would have countered with summa Chuck Norris's actual incarnated Beard leaping from the same wicker basket from the movie "Basket Case" and silently mouthing a shriek, and maybe leaving a bad yelp
The Cowboy symbolizes the First organized crime faction in America, The Cowboys in fact we’re the first example of organized crime in America. The Corral symbolizes the OK Corral, and the most famous gunfight in the American Old West, between the Cowboys and the Law a law that was just as corrupt as they were. You can keep the rest of the cast but the girl you saw earlier today That’s The Girl, I’m driving the buggy and you might get to ride along, a typical mob extortion threat. Jason represents the newer factions of the mob. You can do anything you want but Thats The Girl. Oh that light flickering on symbolized the beginning of electric power coming to California from the Colorado River and Bolder Dam. Lights Camera, Action, in sequence of the scene. What group of people are the eastern mob still afraid of, The Cowboys, because they can’t intimidate them, they found that out first in Las Vegas and Hollywood in the old days. Remember the scene in Casino when the Cowboy came to meet with that arrogant stubborn Ace, that meeting brought him down. Few Directors are doing anything totally new, they barrow ideas and are inspired by other pictures.
I love this idea (potentially) of a character who was fabricated out of a glimpse of someone. He doesn’t even quite understand his own existence because he was literally hastily sketched out of cliches.
I do kind of wonder what he was doing at keshers party. Since keshers party mostly consisted of film people it makes sense she would associate the cowboy with that and dream of him being some underworld fixer for Hollywood execs. I love it
Pieces of paper are sticked all over on Justin's jacket, because the guy that plays the cowboy "could not remember the lines if his Life was depending on it."
This motherfucker is a Harvester character. Also, I remembered this guy being like, 50-60, but when he turns away he's clearly around 27 and that's really messing with me right now.
