But if it was presented in a different way, I’m sure you would watch that.” You don’t like the narrow depiction of everyone else outside of the white male. “I’m always telling people: Yes, you do! You just don’t like the way they’re presented. “Many people live under the assumption they don’t like Westerns,” explains Samuel in a recent interview over Zoom from Los Angles. “The Harder They Fall” is a spirited and kinetic Black Western that swaggers to its own hip-hop beat. But Samuel’s film also dusts off many of the traditional limitations of an old genre, reinventing it for today. It has all the gunfights, train robberies, saloons, and showdowns you would expect. “The Harder They Fall,” which is currently playing in theaters and debuts Wednesday on Netflix, is filled to its Stetson brim with affection for Westerns. Samuel tilts his head upward and lightly croons: “Coming home, sweetheart darling/ Just my rifle, my pony and me.” “It doesn’t matter if the movie is ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ he will find a way.” “When Dean Martin pops up in a movie, you know: Oh, there’s going to be a song,” Samuel says with a giant grin. If you had any doubt that Jeymes Samuel, the director of “The Harder They Fall” and the British musician known as the Bullits, loves Westerns, then you haven’t heard him sing Dean Martin’s “My Rifle, My Pony and Me” from John Ford’s “Rio Bravo.”
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