The Harder They Fall Director Jeymes Samuel Didn’t Reinvent the Western—He Freed It

It’s often said that to love something is to also be critical of its shortcomings. That has always been the case for director Jeymes Samuel, whose inventive new film was born out of both his admiration for and frustration with the Western genre. “I wanted, with The Harder They Fall, to employ all of the Western tropes and then to turn everything on their head,” he tells Katey Rich on this week’s Little Gold Men podcast. Samuel’s vision now lives on Netflix and boasts a sprawling cast, including Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, LaKeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz, and Delroy Lindo. In… Read Full Article