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Who would you like to see if Barquero was remade?

posted 12 years ago by hackraytex
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It would be hard to remake this movie but that never stopped Hollywood from trying. I have lost count of how many times I have seen Barquero but am watching it again from Encore Westerns. It it was remade, I could see these casting efforts:

Mountain Phil: Only Randy Quaid could do this part.
Travis: Lou Diamond Phillips
Remy: None other than Eric Roberts
Nola: I don't know who could follow Marie Gomez whoever played Nola will have to learn to smoke cigars and shoot convincingly unless she already has. It was unusual to cast women in strong parts then but hers was a strong character. Nola could definitely stand her ground in shooting with the best of them. I think many frontier women had to be strong like her to survive. It would be good for the writer(s) to build up her part in a remake.
Anna: I don't know who could play her part but she was strong because she had to put her contempt for Travis and her loyalty to her husband on hold to get Travis to rescue him.
Marquette: Good part but I have no idea how could do this part but the movie could not made without him.
Last but not least-Poe: Strong character whose part in a remake should also be built up.

[–] black_derby_80 11 years ago

I'd like to see them use the actual historical basis as the story, with lincoln, glanton, judge holden, sam chamberlain, and the quechan/yuma indians...

"Cinema was made for fantasy, rather than normal types of stories." - Ray Harryhausen

[–] hackraytex 11 years ago

I did not know there was a historical incident that was the basis of this story. The closest I know if the Pancho Villa raid into New Mexico. I am also still trying to find the book "The Shootist" so if there is a book about this incident or somewhere I can read about it I would like to find it. With Randy Quaid in as much trouble has he is in, he would be perfect as Mountain Phil. It could jump start his career.

[–] black_derby_80 11 years ago

In 1849, a man named john joel glanton was comissioned by the governor of sonora to hunt apaches, at the price of $50 a scalp. Glanton and his gang rampaged across southern texas and northern mexico, killing first apaches, and then mexicans, on occasion slaughtering and scalping entire villages. This earned a price on his own head, and he led his men west. At the gila river, a few miles south of the grand canyon, they came across a ferry run by yuma indians. Glanton saw a potential goldmine there, so they seized the ferry and began operating it for themselves.
There's (much) more to the story, but I'll leave you to discover it for yourself. Cormac mccarthy's 'blood meridian' is, while not strictly about glanton, a wonderfully written tale of savagery and barbarism, and what separates 'civilized' men from such 'heathens.' (In truth, the division is blurrier than we think)

"Cinema was made for fantasy, rather than normal types of stories." - Ray Harryhausen

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[–] hackraytex 7 years ago

I know I am late coming back to my post but in watching it again, with all of the strong characters in this movie, there is no doubt that Forrest Tucker as Mountain Phil stole every scene he was in. I don't think it deliberate but just the way it was produced. Unfortunately, it looks like Randy Quaide is out of the business for the foreseeable future, I still can't come up with anyone else who could do the part. Any suggestions anyone?