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Article: Tough motherf*@ker: the profane eloquence of Deadwoods's Ian McShane.
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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POWER IS SEDUCTIVE, but invincibility is boring: Just as the creators of Superman glorified their hero into near-irrelevance, forcing them to turn to Kryptonite to prevent his exploits from devolving into one rote, unqualified ass-kicking after another, so David Milch, the primary creative force behind HBO's revisionist western Deadwood, found himself stymied by the sheer, outsized badassitude of its chief villain. Kicking off its third season this month, Deadwood was conceived as an ensemble piece--a sprawling, Altmanesque portrait of a foulmouthed frontier community. If any character could lay claim to being its protagonist, it was Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), ...