| | | I think Yellowstone is more representative of Montana. I noticed early on that I recognized some of the terrain and knew it wasn't filmed in the Yellowstone area. Sure enough, a lot of the filming, including some of the scenes of the big barn with the big Y on the roof, was done in the East Fork of the Bitterroot River -- still Montana, but not Yellowstone.
I worked on that Ranger District back in 1965, my last summer before graduating from Forestry School. My brother still has an elk camp upstream from the fork.
Yellowstone illuminates a growing concern that many of us old timers have: the West is being overrun with commercial interests at the expense of open space. I support the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which attempts to sequester wild space for habitat.
As for the characters, Costner plays his well and I have no complaints about the acting of any character, except for the language.. The "F" word seems to be in every other sentence for some of them.
I actually prefer "Longmire", which represents a fictional sheriff in a fictional town in Wyoming. It's on Netflix now. Right now I'm going back to some of the first episodes, which aired before I started watching.
In defense of the cultural portrayal of characters in "Big Sky", I saw on a National Geographic channel program about drug traffic in Montana. I was unaware that is so prevalent. |
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