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Saddle up them horses and get ready for a rodeo. Or at least a mechanical bull and a burger from Hardees. This will be more relevant than other references to Western cowboy culture that you could imagine. Forget your nudie suit, turn off your reruns of Grand Ol’ Oprey, and join us for what is most certainly a take on ranching. We have Tokyo Cowboy[2023].
Meet Hideki, a Japanese salary man who heads something of a takeover branch of a conglomerate. We meet him reviewing a chocolatier’s business and making sweeping changes once it’s bought out. His fiance who is also his manager has been with him for years and they haven’t even moved in together. He gets the bright idea to take a trip to a ranch in Montana that the company acquired. They want to sell it off and he believes it can be made profitable.
Weltall has Surrogates[2009]. You might or might nor remember the era when Bruce Willis kept pretending he had hair. This meant he would often show up in weird wigs that look like he scalped a Hot Topic employee. This is one of those in a science fiction setting where everyone has robot bodies piloted through goggles. There’s a plot going where a virus kill the robot body, or surrogate, and kills the user. Bruce is there to investigate who is responsible and stop it from killing everyone who uses them.
Tim then has The Mean Season(1985). It’s an eighties movie about a serial killer. Which means the protagonist is either a cop or a reporter. The coin came up heads, so this is a reporter played by Kurt Russell who’s looking to leave Miami and move to Greeley, Colorado. Until a serial killer picks Kurt as the outlet for reporting on his string of murders. There’s a distinct lack of fan boats featured in a movie set in Florida but they do show up once.
