Has Hollywood forgotten that the 1903 Western The Great Train Robbery jump-started the movie industry? When the self-financed Open Range was recently released, Director Kevin Costner said audiences will always be drawn to the genre because “the Western is about feelings of men, how people communicate with each other, about land.” Yet despite Open Range staying on the top-10 list for five weeks and turning a profit, some people in Hollywood aren’t too keen about the genre’s livelihood.
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