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...Jeremiah Johnson does everything Dylan wanted to. And the film effectively manufactures and distributes a reigning Western myth...
...Pollack, "I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth but I don't want to believe it is..." Like Redford, who built his own resort and personal retreat in the same Wasatch range where Jeremiah Johnson was filmed. Pollack has a vacation "cabin" with running water, heat, and a dishwater...
Pollack feels his film crew struggled with the wilderness much as Jeremiah Johnson did. Jeremiah Johnson's flight from civilization emerges in Pollack's telling, from a battle between cinematic technology and the Utah high country. "Meanings," he says, ought to emerge from the "mood and feel" of a film. The primary fascination which directing holds for him is with "the technical aspects of shooting, what certain lenses can do, how each shot...
...with Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis, marked an innovation in the genre. As Pollack says, "It was a black and white film before black and white films were popular, a kind of funky morality play, a bit larger than life and full of a strange kind of banter." Like Jeremiah Johnson, however it did retain elements of the traditional Western...
...start to happen..." The Way We Were may bear this out; in any case, it will be a significant film only it Pollack returns to the film-making which characterized They Shoot Horses, a kind of filmmaking whose depth and control is simply not required to make something like Jeremiah Johnson...