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two s
heriffs
in cold blood. Young
wrestled with wa
ys to sustain susp
ense in a story whose outcome was widely
known. He elected to follow the fract
ured approach of Rashomon, t
he Japanese classic that
reveals its hand slowly, one
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facet at a time, through t
he shifting and oppos
ing viewpoints of each
character. "The point of t
elling a story is no
t to tell people somethin
g they know about alread
y," Young
says. "I wanted to set i
t up so you don't know whether Cortez wa
s guilty o
r not. All
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along, you
think the same thing
as the Texas Rangers, a
nd then you begin to be le
t in on an entir
ely different se
t of facts, so you are forc
ed to exami
ne the case
again and again, with fresh e
yes." The
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
owes much of its intensity t
o Edward James Olm
os' smoldering,
career-making performa
nce as the ha
unted fugitive. But the
casting couldn't be muc
h better from to
p to bottom. Youn
g regrets passing
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on Ed Hams, who
auditioned
for a role, but t
he director redeemed himself by picking up such unimpeachable
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Gammon, Rosan
a DeSoto, William Sanderson, Brion James
, Barry Corbin and Pepe Sema. Why use
New Mexico specifically t
he arroyos around Santa Fe and Chama's scenic t
rain and high terrain - to s
ubstitute for Texas lo
cales? Young is unapologetic
about the
choice. "
We found we
could re-create the
historic settin
gs we wanted more eas
ily in New Me
xico. For
us, it really couldn't h
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