Young Guns
Short description
Young Guns is a Western set in 1878 New Mexico, where English rancher John Tunstall takes in a group of young drifters and outlaws, giving them work and an education. His business rivals, led by the corrupt landowner Lawrence Murphy, resent his presence. When Tunstall is killed, the local authorities show little interest in pursuing those responsible, so the young men take matters into their own hands and are made deputy sheriffs by a sympathetic lawyer. Led by William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, they set out to avenge their benefactor, but when one of them shoots an opponent instead of arresting him, the group itself becomes the target of a large manhunt.
The film was directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco, arriving between Cain's The Principal and Pure Country. Emilio Estevez plays Billy the Kid, with Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemaszko among the group. Produced by Morgan Creek and released by 20th Century Fox, it cost about 13 million dollars and returned roughly 45 million worldwide, a strong result for a Western at the time.
Audience reactions have been warmer than critical ones. On IMDb it holds 6.8/10 from around 73,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.7/10 from about 1,081 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 4.9/10 from 40 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- When the cars race through the Indian settlement, Doc, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is riding at the front with a bandana over his face. In reality, it wasn't Sutherland. That day, the actor received news that his child had been born and left before filming began.
- They say Charlie Sheen couldn't ride a horse at all and fell off several times during filming. During the shooting of the shootout with Henry Hill, the actor's horse bolted, and he had no idea how to stop it.
- The shootouts in the film were not staged. The actors were given a free hand to improvise.
- In the scene where Doc writes a letter to the governor at Billy's request, Emilio Estevez wanted it to look as if he was making up the speech on the fly. However, if you look closely, you can see him periodically glancing in the direction where someone from the film crew was holding cards with words.
- Lou Diamond Phillips is afraid of heights. That's why, when filming him on a ten-meter cliff, the actor moved so slowly and carefully.
- Ground beef was used as McCloskey's brain, as portrayed by Jeffrey Blake.
- Fans of the film repeatedly asked the actors if they had actually taken mescaline. In reality, mushroom soup was passed off as mescaline.
- Charlie Baudry, played by Casey Semashko, actually existed and even survived the shootout at Alex's house. However, he dies in the film.
- In one episode, Billy reads that he is left-handed and immediately states: “I’m not left-handed.” In numerous films, books, and newspaper articles, Billy the Kid (1859-1881) is mistakenly referred to as left-handed due to a surviving image from which such a conclusion could be drawn. The fact, however, is that the image in question used a tintype or ferrotype – an early photographic process using metal plates as photographic material, coated with dark varnish or light-sensitive collodion. The image in this process came out mirrored.
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