“I was interested in Willis and Joe because, bankrobbers or not, they were extremely interesting people,” he wrote.
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In an essay published in the Express-News the day the movie opened, Stanush wrote about his unlikely friendship with Willis and Joe Newton, whom he met late in their lives.
Deana Newcomb / Twentieth Century FoxĪnother San Antonio treasure, journalist and author Claude Stanush, wrote a documentary and oral history, both titled “The Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang,” that revived interest in the brothers, and he co-wrote the screenplay for the movie. Dwight Yoakam, center, co-starred in the film co-written by a San Antonian and filmed here in part. They robbed banks, too, but the Newton Boys, including Willis (Matthew McConaughey, right) and Joe (Skeet Ulrich, left), never achieved the notoriety of Bonnie and Clyde.
Garcia Federal Building downtown became a Chicago train station, and downtown city streets stood in for Toronto. While small-town scenes were filmed around Texas in places such as Martindale, Bertram and Lockhart, historic San Antonio buildings stood in for bigger Jazz Age cities. The measured pace and respectful tone of “The Newton Boys” make more sense viewed through that lens. Linklater certainly made his intentions clear to anyone who wasn’t buying popcorn during the opening credits, which were filmed like a black-and-white silent movie. I figure the Newton Boys were never cut out for the wrong side of the law.” “We’re guilty, guilty, guilty, and we’re awfully sorry we put everyone through all this trouble. “You caught us with a wet finger in the sugar sack on this one, sir,” he tells the judge. Late in the movie, Hawke - who’s loud and rowdy as hard-drinking Jess for most of its two-hour running time - makes a charming if ingenuous guilty plea to the mail train robbery. And if it ain’t fair when it’s all said and done, it’s gonna be unfair on my side of the fence.” Just out of jail for a crime he says he didn’t commit, he tells her: “I’m gonna work some things out all right, Ma, you just watch me.
McConaughey reveals Willis’ motivations early on in a bitter conversation with his mother. The movie succeeds when its young stars seize their moments. On : Skip ‘Space Jam’ if you want to see the San Antonio Spurs in the movies These guys weren’t psychopaths, they didn’t want to kill people, so it fails on that level.” “‘The Newton Boys’ was a homage to the old cinema, and they portrayed it as a shoot ’em up,” Linklater told film scholar Rob Stone during interviews for his book “The Cinema of Richard Linklater.” “They put it in a genre in which it couldn’t compete. The only big shootout in movie, during a daylight heist in Toronto, comes across more like an unusually violent and profane Keystone Cops escapade than a gun battle filmed by Martin Scorsese or Michael Mann, which is how Linklater intended it. Mathew McConaughey films a scene from “The Newton Boys” in San Antonio. Linklater devotes almost as much time to the boys’ horsing around in hotel rooms and Willis’ courtship of a hotel newsstand proprietress (Julianna Margulies) as he does to their criminal enterprises. “The Newton Boys” are played by Vincent D’Onofrio as Dock, Ethan Hawke as Jess, Skeet Ulrich as Joe and Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey as Willis, the leader of the gang. On : ‘Still Breathing’ a celebration of true love and San Antonio Maybe that’s because it wasn’t really the kind of action flick that fills seats on Friday night but a more thoughtful portrait of a hard time and place, and what it might take for poor boys to get ahead there. Where to see it: Streaming on Starz and available to rent and buy on Amazon Prime and other digital platforms.
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