I'm sure Oliver will be checking back in on a bunch.

I through around the term "Manic Pixie Dead Girl" post-screening but nobody thought it was funny.

All interesting points, Tom. I will seek that out. One other element that makes it tricky to remake is time: There's some shorthand used in establishing Hoffman's character as—at least on the surface—a liberal academic type of the late '60s/early '70s variety, the kind who would argue against the war but, in the eyes…

We got the novel, THE SIEGE AT TREACHER'S FARM in at the office. It's not too good. (Less rape-y, just as sexist. Apparently the author thought Peckinpah's version was sick.) But in the book, the protagonist is directly inspired by watching old Westerns. So there's that.