#anti star wars outlaws

[missourielephant]

We are seeing a triumph for those who love excellent video games lately. Hogwarts Legacy, Stellar Blade, and Black Myth: Wukong have been very well received by gamers. The last one is breaking all kinds of records.

By contrast SSKTJL, Concord, and Dustborn have all flopped like the worthless trash they are. Star Wars Outlaws looks poised to crash and burn too.

Gamers are winning and celebrating the success of excellent games, and gaming journalists CANNOT handle it. Their unhinged rants about why the best selling games are bad and the games that flopping are supposed to be good is comedy gold.

And I am loving every second of it.

[gamer2002]

Companies falling due to them not delivering products that sell is a good thing that improves the overall quality of the industry.

And people were telling you for years that you were making a mistake. You have smugly replied that such people were no longer your audience and you were going to be appreciated and supported by the fabled modern one.

You were proven wrong, you have nobody else but yourself to blame, and the people whose warnings you have ignored have every right to feel vindicated.

And the alternative to the current situation is companies getting subsidized from our tax money, just so you could produce crap that we do not want to buy. Quite frankly, if this is what you wish for, you are proving Ayn Rand right about parasites.

[obi-wokenobi]

The irony of this gooner accusing game developers or gaslighting and deceiving gamers. While at the same time, using a FAKE IMAGE to gaslight and deceive gamers.

Because this is what Kay actually looks like in Star Wars Outlaws:

Why do these grifters always have to come up with fake images to misrepresent a game?

If these imaginary issues were actually real, they wouldn't even need to photoshop them into existance! LOL

[grimlocksword]

Mass Woke PANIC as Concord & Star Wars Outlaws Sales BURN + Ubisoft Exec...

[the-desolated-quill]

Lord have mercy, a woman?! In a video game?! Instead of the kitchen?!?! Quick, hide your children!!!

🙄

How NOT to sell a Star Wars's videogame.

[postnuclear-problems]

Kind of obsessed with The Ghoul in Fallout (2024). Walton Goggins is honestly just so excellent in every scene, he really sells it, but there's something to how that character is WRITTEN, y'know? Like, we get this really strong juxtaposition of his character before the war and his character after, and some revelations later in the show even further recontextualize some of that.

Pre-war, he's kinda this pastiche of the John Wayne/Clint Eastwood type Western star, famous for his cowboy roles. He has some gripes with how his characters are being written early on (for example, being made uncharacteristically violent and having reactionary anti-communist rhetoric injected into his dialogue), but he goes along with it because there's all this mccarthyism about and he doesn't want people thinking he's a communist sympathizer.

POST WAR, he's leaned HARD into the cowboy thing, he's cold, he's merciless, he's willing to kill children in front of their parents to prove a point. He's become the hyper violent, macho, western anti hero that he was critical of before. It's like, he's cast into this insane world where everyone is fighting for survival, and Cooper Howard has no footing in that world, but that anti-hero? That cowboy persona? The outlaw, the outlaw has a place here. So, that's what he becomes. The Ghoul. It's a performance, really. Cooper has to become this mythic cowboy gunslinger archetype to survive, embody the characters he used to play on the screen.

I know this is really surface level stuff but it's so so interesting to me. I really hope season 2 gets to pick away at this shell he's built around himself, maybe as he gets closer to Lucy and we start to see more of the man he used to be peaking through.

[fuckyeahstufficareabout]

I enjoyed the acolyte, I enjoy rings of power, I absolutely loved star wars outlaws. But like... There is so much fucking negativity and hate and stupidity surrounding these things (and more but these are recent fixations for me) online by people who claim to be experts in the canon lore when they aren't even, and I am beyond sick of it. I'm not saying that because I liked these things that everyone needs to, but so much of the criticism I see is just baseless and vile. Steeped in racism and sexism and "anti-woke" rhetoric. I will never understand why people enjoy being on the dipshit hate bandwagon. How miserable and pathetic you would have to be to be a grown man who spends his time basically bullying people online who enjoy things and laugh reacting every post just to be a piece of shit

[dailyadventureprompts]

any ideas for a druid villain who isn't a pro-environmentalism "extremist" who opposes the #just'n'kind authorities and such? i'd like to do one but honestly most suggestions are just to make a fantasy anti-civ unabomber and idk im not too crazy about the concept

Villain: The Eelmonger

While the scholars debate whether it is nature, society, or fate that makes a person cruel, remember my student that none of these things are kind or fair to most whom they govern. -From the diaries of Tarraji, country tutor

Hooks:

Every year a great festival is held across the kingdom to honour the queen's birthday, a tradition started by the previous rulers to celebrate the long-sought birth of their first heir, but maintained by the current sovereign as a means of sharing a little of her prosperity with her subjects, the crown footing most of the bill for the event. This year, just as people (and the party) are crowding into the rivermarket to enjoy the festivities, a horde of grotesque aquatic monsters surge from the water to rampage through the town.

Two days later when the last of the beasts is either slain or driven off, word arrives that similar attacks have occurred all up and down the central waterway, paralyzing the realm's economy and making travel tremendously dangerous. The party could go hunting the worst of the rivermonsters, or they could sign up to protect a daredevil merchant's cargo and make a small fortune crisis trading.

Along with all this chaos an old threat reemerges, pirates with a long hatred of the realm trawling for plunder in the wake of the rampage. Apparently exempt from the wrath of the seabeasts that still lurk in the rivers and canals, they fly a new flag bearing images of sharp-toothed eels, and sing songs in praise of an unseen master.

Dressed like a peasant and exalted by outlaws, the enigmatic figure known only as the Eelmonger has emerged seemingly from nowhere to overthrow the realm and topple the queen from her throne. Who is she? Why her unprecedented attack? How is she able to turn the great predators of the deep into warbeasts bent to her aims? Among all the uncertainly all that can be known is that she has seemingly declared war against the realm, and will not stop till the queen and any who support her have been reduced to meals for the ocean's scavengers.

Background: Sha's parents thought it was very lucky for their daughter to be born under the same stars as the crown princess, as in the old traditions of the kingdom such "celestial siblings" were thought to share their fortunes, and as poor fisherfolk eking out a meagre living from the sea that fortune was dearly needed. As Sha Grew however it became apparent that the stars played a cruel game of favourites, and whatever luck the oneday queen was given was taken in equal portion from Sha's own: The day the princess was thrown from her horse and rose mirraculously unharmed was the day Sha tumbled over the side of her family's boat in a calm sea and somehow broke three bones, the announcement of the king's recovery from the brittle sickness reaching Sha's village the same day they put her long-ailing father in the ground.

These transgressions were manifold, too obvious and cruel to be mere happenstance, and over the years and the grand festival-birthdays Sha's resentment at her distant royal sister and the injustice of fate filed her sharp and cold as a gutting knife. Things paradoxically got a little better during the pirate wars, when those foreign fleets took the town she lived in as their fortress, burning and pillaging many other settlements along the coast and great river. Sha, now a woman grown, felt her fortunes had reversed, as the pirates were all to happy to pay for her catch with handfulls of stolen coin, and her expertise with local cuisine saw her elevated to the position of landbound galleycook, feeding whole crews of cutthroats in between their inland raids.

It was not to last however, after a few brutal years on the defensive, the princess and her allies rallied and launched an offensive that shattered the invader's fleet and ousted them from the lands they'd set to conquer, culminating in a battle that saw Sha's town (and the life she'd built there) burnt to the ground. It was in the midst of that fighting, trapped beneath burning rubble that Sha saw her celestial sister for the first time, glorious and beautiful and totally ignorant of her existence, scaling the ruins of Sha's happiness on her way to future glory. Sha was pinned there for days, forgotten among the rest of the corpses; it wasn't until a great storm broke and washed the wreckage of the battle out into the sea that she was freed, her druidic powers awakening as she drowned and calling out to those creatures of the brine to aid her. Whatever warpath and hope she had for making a good life in spite of her sister she left below the surface, because as soon as she made landfall she started plotting her path back to the queen.

Goals & Schemes:

Ruination: As strong as her monsters are individually or as a horde, The eelmonger knows her beasts can't challenge the might or logistics of an entire kingdom. However, Sha grew up on the kingdom's waterways and knows that just like small tributaries fed the great trade river, the lives of farmers and merchants feed into the strength of the crown. If she has any hope of evening the playing field Sha must break the system that feeds the realm's warchest even if it means breaking the realm itself in the process. Monstrous chaos and resurgent pirates are just the first step: Targeting the merchants will cause supply shortages and beggar the realm, after that she'll move on to sowing famine in the farmlands. When there isn't enough to go round people will break down into factions, causing the army the well trained army the queen has inhereted to crumble before it ever reaches the field.

Fixing the broken scales: Simply killing the queen won't be enough. Sha reasoned out long ago that if she ever did direct harm to celestial sister whatever fate bullshit that connects them would likely redirect the outcome onto her somehow and that just wouldn't do. Instead she has to settle for making the soverign suffer by proxy, all the while searching for some means of attacking the connection itself. Those pirates directly privy to her plan are out hunting for priests and fortunetellers during their raids, anyone they could kidnap and bring back to the eelmonger to help correct this balance.

Saint of the Brine: Though she has no love for gods, Sha's vengeful ascent is watched over by a coldhearted deity of the fathomless seas, who has umbrage with this particular kingdom ever since the queen's ancestors laid claim to its bays and coastlines by slaying a titanic beast she favoured. The eelmonger is her unwitting instrument of wrath, and whether the gods involvement began during Sha's almost drowning or all the way back were praying for a safe birth is impossible to say. Though the eelmonger has unseen aid throughout her campaign against the crown, if the party is able to make their enemy aware that some god may be the source of her misfortune they may be able to divert Sha's wrath from the queen and the realm's inhabitants.

Art

[wilcze-kudly]

"The comics sure as didn’t help either. In the comics Katara literally sits in a corner while Aang teaches lessons. This girl is a war hero, expert healer, master waterbender and she gets stuck making babies, getting talked down to by White Lotus goons, and quietly hanging out in the South Pole instead of doing something with her life."

Honestly, you're smart to not engage with shippers like these, because holy shit. Why are so many rabid anti-Kataangers so determined to see Katara as a miserable broodmare? Girl gave birth to 3 kids and one of the White Lotus masters asked her for her thoughts if Korra was ready to learn airbending from Tenzin...and listened when she said Korra was ready.

"Gets stuck making babies..." smh. Weird they have this energy for Katara but not for Toph or Suyin or Ursa (not that they should, but still. It's frustrating especially because it strips Katara of any agency).

Mind you I don't love all the post canon comics, but in a lot of them, Katara is much more than a passive character playing second fiddle to Aang. Picking and choosing certain scenes doesn't really prove a point well lol.

I think Katara's role in Korra's life is very underestimated and I actually love Katara's inclusion in tlok much more than Toph and Zuko getting shoehorned in in the last seasons for "star power".

I think a lot of people will also ignore that Katara did things other than having children, for example she outlawed bloodbending, and Toph mentioned that Katara was as involved in politics as Sokka and Aang.

I also find the assumption that once a woman starts having children, they take over her life quite odd and, dare I say, misogynistic? For example my mother quit her job to be a stay at home mother for a while when my sister and I were kids, but decided it wasn't her and she started a new career in which she is doing really well.

The idea thar Katara was some battered baby making housewife under the thumb of cold absentee father Aang is simply false.

And it exists purely to fuel the fantasy of another man coming to save her which is, once again, not the feminist win zks think it is.

I used to engage with Kataang antis, but I very quickly realised that these people aren't interested in having an honest talk, and if pushed they'll just fall back onto calling you a misogynist or a rape apologist or any other colourful amount of insults they can come up with. It's disheartening since I genuinely enjoy debating and carefully formulating my responses, fact checking myself and my sources, etc.

In the end I stopped interacting with people like that because I think their cattiness started rubbing off on me and I noticed my own arguments were getting more meanspirited and judgy and I didn't like that. The shipping wars are a very toxic environment lol.

[sunder-the-gold]

Please name the best games that allowed you to become an anti-hero, the villain protagonist, or even just replace the antagonist as the true villain of the story

The communists in charge of Star Wars: Outlaws told themselves that they wanted you to play as a free-spirit rebel and pirate, but they were so terrified of actual misbehavior that they would only allow you to attack strong and wealthy targets. Because they cannot accept the idea that a criminal would EVER do the sensible thing and prey upon the weak, because that's the sort of thing that only The System does!

I know that in the first BioShock game, you could sacrifice the Little Sisters in the name of expediency, and this had some effect on the ending.

While you could argue that nothing you did could make you worse than the antagonist of BioShock, so that you would be an anti-hero at worst, you couldn't argue that the more heroic and moral path would be to spare the Little Sisters.

Mass Effect only went so far as to allow you to play the anti-hero with its "Renegade" path. You weren't allowed to do anything so bad that you became the biggest evil in the galaxy, but you were at least allowed to save the world while being an impulsive, rude, selfish asshole. If I have the right of it.

inFAMOUS and Prototype allowed you to play as either the most heroic your character could possibly be (given Alex's shitty circumstances and monstrous abilities) or as anti-hero like the Punisher or the worst interpretations of Batman. But I forget if you could ever just straight up replace the central villain as the world's biggest threat.

In Undertale, where the Pacifist Route and ending are unambiguously the most moral and heroic path you can take, and the Neutral route contains too many possibilities to generalize, but the Genocide Route has you become a villain antagonist without ANY 'greater scope villain' to serve as your antagonist. The monster Flowey doesn't even try to fight you, only the Biggest Damn Heroes among monsterkind.

Soul Nomad & The World Eaters also allows you to become the greatest scope villain, who ends the game by killing the universe. As well as lesser variations of villain-protagonist or anti-hero.

[the-desolated-quill]

You’ve got to love how pathetically predictable and predictably pathetic the alt-right anti woke brigade are. About a year ago when the first gameplay trailer for Star Wars Outlaws came out, fans started joking about how the reactionaries would react to a Star Wars game having a non-white woman as the protagonist, to which the reactionaries started throwing their toys out of the pram, saying that ‘the left’ were trying to antagonise and make fun of them. Fast forward to now, the new story trailer has been released and the reactionaries respond by doing the very thing we were joking about in the first place. 😂

[scifimagpie]

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Last Updated: Mar 2024 So, I realised I hadn't actually written one of these, and I had to fix it!

Name: Magpie, or Shelle, or Michelle.

Pronouns: she/her or xe/xer/xis.

Who: both a writer and an editor!

The Writing: I’ve been publishing since 2011, and I have a bunch of free and paid anthologies I’ve organized, but these are my most important/favourite works.

Except for The Meaning Wars series, all of my books are set in Canada!  

The Meaning Wars (complete; And The Stars Will Sing, The Stolen: Two Short Stories, The Meaning Wars, Poe’s Outlaws, A Jade’s Trick, The Meaning Wars Complete Omnibus)

Similar to: Becky Chambers’ A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and Ruthanna Emrys’ A Half-Built Garden

Vibes: Space opera! Found family! Mature (30s) protagonists! Best friends! Sapphic and queer m/f romance elements! Friendly space raptors! Space pirates! A beach episode! Antifascism! Colonization (and inequality issues)! Fighting stuff with democracy and direct action!  

The Underlighters (Book 1 of The Nightmare Cycle; Book 2, Monsters and Fools, is complete and in edits. Book 3, The Foundling City, is a current WIP!)

Similar to: Jean DuPrau’s The City of Ember, Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, the Fallout series

Vibes: Coming of age/new adult themes. Spooky monsters. Post-apocalyptic. The importance and warmth of community. Friendship. Struggling with teen problems. Polyamory. Nightmares. Mental health issues. Trauma. Hope. Recycling.

After The Garden (Book 1 of the Memory Bearers Saga; Book 2, Within the Tempest, is also one of my WIPs)

Similar to: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, The Wachowski sisters’ Sense-8, the Fallout series

Vibes: Found family. Gentle romance. Polyamory (m/f/m). Superpowers without superheroes. Sinister cults and religious extremism. Reincarnation. An alternate future. Adorable giant spiders. Silk-weaving and fiber arts. Post-collapse societal reorganization and politics.

The Loved, The Lost, The Dreaming: A Horror Anthology includes an alternate-ending version of The Underlighters, the novella A Shot of Vodka, and a dozen or so genre-crossing short stories. All of them have spooky elements.

Similar to: Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors, Roald Dahl’s Skin and Other Stories (this is not an endorsement of antisemite Roald Dahl; I am antifascist)

Vibes: Underground living. Spooky dolls. Abandoned houses. Queerness. Sinister fey. Nightmares. Lovecraftian eeriness. Here be monsters.

Bad Things That Happen To Girls (Book 1 of the Memory Bearers Saga; Book 2, Within the Tempest, is also one of my WIPs) Possibly my most underrated work, this New Adultish story is a standalone novella about trauma and what happens when life breaks down.

Similar to: Emily Danforth’sThe Miseducation of Cameron Post and Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness

Vibes: Broken family. Abusive mother. Being queer in a small city. Religious trauma. Forbidden cross-cultural love. Teen heartbreak. Coming-of-age. Sisters.

The Hell series (Unpublished WIPs; Dark as Hell, Uncharted Hell, Hope in Hell)

Similar to: Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, Andrej Sapkowski’s The Witcher series

Vibes: Grumpy/sunshine romance! Mature protagonists! Queer f/m romance! Thriller elements! Immortal pirate! Marxist/anti-billionaire politics—with a billionaire protag! Lovecraftian ocean horror! Historical fantasy elements! Lots and lots of boat stuff!

Prairie Weather Trilogy (Unpublished but complete, in submission; Chinook Phase, Tornado Warning, Brushfire)

Similar to: Douglas Couplands’ Jpod,Nick Sagan’s Idlewild trilogy (without the sci fi stuff), Love Actually, Heartstoppers

Vibes: Aggressively Canadian! Found family! Cozy academia! University! Set in the early 2010s! Queer romance! Ensemble cast! Aggressively queer, diverse, and inclusive! Coming-of-Age/New Adult issues! Friendship! Drama! Sex work-positivity!             

The Editing: I've been a professional freelance editor since 2013, with Top-Rated status on Upwork (a freelancing website) and several hundred books under my belt. (I don't know how many things I've worked on at this point. I've lost count!) Primarily into sci fi, fantasy, horror, and literature (and associated subgenres); enthusiastic about #ownvoices and all kinds of diversity/marginalised representation in fiction.

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[torntruth]

i finished star wars outlaws and i just enjoy the star wars story point of view from somewhere outside the rebels / resistance. SPOILERS : kay never joined the rebels. she helped them accidentally once , then purposely once. returned to being a crimson dawn girly ( in my play through ) and told them she didn't particularly want anything to do with them. /SPOILERS.

the story of being anti-empire/first order , but being sort of outside the fight is where i like to go with kristen. idk i enjoyed the story. like no if you want a super dark story , it isn't for you but i also don't know where this whole anti-safe retoric has come from when star wars has always been 'safe.' it only got darker with the prequels.

[grimlocksword]

Star Wars Outlaws Devs DEMAND You Accept Woke Sweet Baby Agenda + Ubisof...

[stheresya]

recently i was watching an youtuber react to a right-wing conservative complain about evil being too normalized in hollywood nowadays. he was upset that villains always have sad backstories that, in his mind, were an attempt to justify their evilness. and one of the examples he cited was kylo ren from star wars. he thought the idea of rey (the heroine) and kylo (the villain) falling in love was absurd, because kylo was evil and thus did not deserve love nor sympathy from any of the good guys. isn't this familiar? only i'm used to hearing this from people who claim to be in the opposite side of the political spectrum.

this also reminded me of another time i witnessed another right-wing influencer call grrm "sick-minded" for including incest in his work. mind you that this person was a fan of asoiaf and did not have any issue with all the other violences in the series. only the incest was just too much. this made me think of antis who occupy horror/gothic fiction spaces who looove spooky aesthetics and gore but lose their minds if someone holds special interest in a problematic character or relationship or, heaven forbid, if someone eroticizes the grotesque.

i'm from a country where the death penalty is outlawed. my country also has one of the highest crime rates in the world. of course, this could be explained by the fact that we have a lot of social inequality as a result of centuries of colonization + some imperialism because we're America's backyard. but some politicians and influencers try to get it all that this is a morality problem, that some people are just born rotten, all to justify them enforcing harsher security policies (re: killing people), which obviously affects poor the most. they hate the idea of morally reprehensible characters being humanized in media because it puts to question their black and white worldview, a view that is only possible through the dehumanization of 'the other' (usually poor and bipoc). the idea that people resort to crime because they are led to by the harsh conditions they live in infuriates them because, in some way, it puts these people as victims of their circumstances, victims of a harmful system that they keep enforcing. and so they need pop culture to keep reinforcing the good vs evil mentality, because nothing is more threatening to the authoritarian worldview than nuance.

anyway, this made me come to the realization that we're too obliging with antis. we treat them like misguided teenagers who just need to live a little more and understand that fiction isn't reality, that fiction exists as a safe space to allow our imagination to venture in the wildest and darkest places. but this is a case of a harmful ideology infiltrating spaces that should be celebrating freedom of creativity. everyone knows (or should know) that believing the main role of art and fiction is to promote good morals is borderline fascist rhetoric. certain "progressives" are parroting that idea by turning it into rainbow puritanism. but it's still conservatism nonetheless. just because they don't use god's name to justify their stances doesn't make their goals any less conservative.

[kaletastrophes]

Western babes! Thanks to Indiewire, we now have directly from Pedro Almodovar the westerns he personally had in mind while making Strange Way of Life.

Part 1 of this list, mostly movies I personally believed would influence the film, is pinned to my page and I can report I got 2 right! Pedro listed The Wild Bunch and Red River as influences! I will be honest I have only seen a few of the westerns Pedro mentioned so maybe we can watch these together.

While my original list focused more on anti-westerns, Almodovar seems to have focused much more on traditional westerns. John Wayne stars in 4 of the 9 he listed for example. I find that fascinating honestly.

(once again tagging the ultimate western babe @the-ginger-hedge-witch if she wants to add these to her western studies)

But without further ado heres Part 2 of westerns that inspired Strange Way of Life:

The movie is strewn with references to Westerns that Almodovar has treasured for years. 

The Wild Bunch 

In Strange Way of Life a flashback between the two men, in which they fire at wine barrels and shrug off some prostitutes for their own plans, stems from Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch.

Babes!! Im so absolutely tickled that I spotted this and now it's confirmed. I wont go into details about the film because I listed it in part 1 but it was confirmed by Almodovar in the Indiewire interview so I've included it again here.

Almodovar says he envisioned Ethan Hawke’s character as an extension of archetypes in two John Sturges movies:

Last Train from Gun Hill

A marshal (Kirk Douglas) tries to bring the son of an old friend (Anthony Quinn), an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Lawman Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) and outlaw Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas) form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

I haven't seen either of these Sturges films but just reading the plot summaries above and the plot summary of Strange Way it's pretty clear how they would tie together.

John Ford loomed large for the spectacular vistas, and Almodovar says he thought a lot about:

The Searchers

In this revered Western, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returns home to Texas after the Civil War. When members of his brother's family are killed or abducted by Comanches, he vows to track down his surviving relatives and bring them home. 

Cheyenne Autumn

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in a small Western town. 

Wow. What an interesting list... I'm not sure I could have imagined the first two being included before reading the article honestly. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance makes really perfect sense, two men hide the history they have together until it comes out years later just like they seem to do in Strange Way.

The Searchers I have seen and while it is regarded as one of the best films ever in American film history it's also regarded as one of the most racist films in American film history. The portrayal of Native American's is truly hard to stomach. Critic Roger Ebert went so far as to accuse director John Ford of trying to somehow "justify the Native American genocide." So I would warn perhaps be cautious when viewing. I will say Cheyenne Autumn is perhaps somewhat Ford's response to The Searchers, it's regarded as a pretty mediocre film but lauded in film history because the actors portraying the Cheyenne are actually Navajo and speak Navajo in the film. Because no one else on set spoke Navajo, during scenes when Navajo is spoken the actors made dirty jokes and openly mocked production.

Pascal wears a green jacket that serves as a callback to the one Jimmy Stewart wears in:

Bend of the River

When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy (Jimmy Stewart) risks his life to try and get it to them.

This is another fantastic western and whats interesting is that the film centers on constantly keeping you guessing on which character is going to turn out good and which character is going to turn out bad. I wonder if Almodovar will bring that same thing to Strange Way..

Also, "Julia Adams stars as the woman who made the mistake of loving two men!" No, thats never a mistake babe hahaha.

Finally, Almodovar give three more films that inspired costumes for Strange Way:

El Dorado

Cole Thornton (John Wayne), a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara (Robert Mitchum). Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Red River

Dunson (John Wayne) leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son (Montgomery Clift).

Vera Cruz

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Well there you have it! Let me know your thoughts. I really find this list incredible curious and interesting.