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Chlöe Bailey, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson will lead a big screen adaptation of “ Girl From the North Country ,” a Broadway musical featuring Bob Dylan songs. Conor McPherson, the ...
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Instead, as in so many other movie genres, the female characters in Westerns exist primarily so they can stand by their man, lead him into temptation, or be killed or kidnapped in order to give him a motive to avenge or rescue them. They rarely have agency.
Girl from the North Country is a musical with a book by Conor McPherson and songs with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan. It is the second show to use Dylan's music after Twyla Tharp 's The Times They Are a-Changin' .
Claudia Cardinale staked her Western roles on playing intelligent women in distress in classics like The Professionals (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). The Legend of Frenchie King (1971), a French comedy, may have been a comedown, but it made for some great film posters, pairing her with sex goddess Brigitte Bardot.
These are the best female performances in the history of western TV shows and films, proving the wild west isn't always a man's world.
In the summer of 2017, Conor McPherson's masterpiece Girl From the North Country received its world premiere at The Old Vic in London. It's almost 4,000 miles away from the show's setting of Duluth, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan grew up.
