The Postman eventually obliges, and she makes love with him in a scene reminiscent of those good Victorian wives who closed their eyes and thought of the empire. Her husband is infertile after the “bad mumps,” and the couple desires a child. That young woman ( Olivia Williams), by the way, wants the Postman's semen. It's the sort of line an actor-director ought to be wary of applying to his own character, but Costner frankly sees the Postman as a messiah, and there is a shot late in the film where he zooms high above a river gorge in a cable car that serves absolutely no purpose except to allow him to pose as the masthead on the ship of state. “You give out hope like it was candy in your pocket,” a young woman tells him.
#KEVIN COSTNER THE POSTMAN MOVIE#
Walking outside, he discovers that all the townspeople have gathered in hushed silence in a semicircle around his lodging, to await his awakening and appearance-the sort of thing that happens in movies, but never in real life, where some helpful townsman invariably suggests, “Let's just wake the sonuvabitch up.” In a movie that proceeds with glacial deliberation, the Postman becomes a symbol for the survivors in their struggling communities. The sheriff spots him for a fraud, but the people want to believe, and the next morning, he finds letters pushed under his door. Building on his fiction, he tells the residents of a restored U.S.
At the gates of a settlement called Pineview, he claims he has come to deliver the mail. Mail van and steals the uniform, cap and letterbag of the skeleton inside. He escapes, stumbles over an abandoned U.S. His master recites lines like, “Life is a tale told by a moron,” not the sort of mistake he'd be likely to make, especially with a woman helpfully prompting him by whispering, “Idiot! Idiot!” Or maybe she's a critic.Ĭostner is conscripted into a neofascist army run by Gen. Bill can hold a sword in his mouth, and in “ Macbeth” he plays Birnam Wood.
They support themselves by doing Shakespeare for bands of settlers. Costner is a lone figure in the wilderness, friendly only with his mule, named Bill. The dust clouds have settled after nuclear war, and scattered communities pick up the reins of civilization. The movie, based on an award-winning science fiction novel by David Brin, takes place in 2013. Now he sort of combines them, in a film that takes place in the post-Apocalyptic future like “Waterworld,” but looks and feels like it takes place in a Western. He told that story magnificently in “ Dances with Wolves” (1990) and then did another version in the futuristic fantasy “ Waterworld” (1995). In choosing “The Postman” as his new project, however, Costner should perhaps have reflected that audiences were becoming overfamiliar with him as the eccentric loner in the wilderness who discovers an isolated community and then joins their war against evil marauders. But parables like this require their makers to burn their bridges and leave common sense behind: Either they work (as “ Forrest Gump” did), in which case everyone involved is a genius, or they don't-in which case you shouldn't blame them for trying. It's goofy, yes, and pretentious, and Kevin Costner puts himself in situations that get snickers.
#KEVIN COSTNER THE POSTMAN SERIES#
Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the drama series Yellowstone for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.There are those who will no doubt call “The Postman” the worst film of the year, but it's too good-hearted for that. On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He has also played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020). He later starred in Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Dragonfly (2002), Rumor Has It (2005), The Guardian (2006), Mr. His second directorial feature, The Postman, was released in 1997. In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld. He then starred in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). He rose to prominence with his starring roles in The Untouchables and No Way Out (1987). Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado and many other films. He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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