"A Perfect World" Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood, the feud between the two who couldn't build a teacher-pupil relationship

"A Perfect World" synopsis

1963 America. Butch Haynes, an 8-year-old boy, is on the run, evading a criminal investigation network spread across Texas and Alabama. Butch, a lonely man who has been facing the walls of prison ever since he can remember, has escalated his crimes to include escape, kidnapping, and murder. Red Garnet, the police chief in Texas who pursues Butch, is the one who put Butch in prison for the first time. The two men, who once again became criminals and U.S. Marshals, ran through the wilderness, raising dust as if controlled by the threads of fate. Butch, who escapes with Philip hostage, aims for the "Perfect World," the only perfect paradise left in this world. Butch, cornered and showing his ferocity, points a gun at the man who offers him a night's lodging...

Index

• Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood dream co-star
• The relationship between Costner and Eastwood that made us expect a teacher-student relationship
• The feud between Costner and Eastwood, who have directing experience

Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood dream co-star

" Dances with Wolves " (1990) and " Unforgiven " (1992). These two films have something in common: they were produced at a time when the western genre was obsolete, and both won the Academy Award for Best Picture. What's more, it is similar in that it was directed by an actor, and that actor also plays the lead role. The outlines of the works are similar.

Another thing they have in common is that they both starred in a 1990s film based on the assassination of President Kennedy. Kevin Costner, who directed and starred in ``Dances with Wolves'', directed and starred in `` JFK '' (1991), which depicts the investigation of an Unforgiven; They each play the main characters in ` `In the Line of Fire '' (1993), which depicts a man who fails to protect the president during an incident.

“A Perfect World” trailer

At the time of its release, the two, who were on the rise in their acting careers, co-starred for the first time in the movie ``A Perfect World'' (1993). Coincidentally, the setting was Texas in 1963, the year President Kennedy was assassinated. The year 1993, when this movie was released, was also a milestone year, marking 30 years since the incident. In the movie, there is an explanation about the mobile trailer used in the investigation, saying, ``This one will also be participating in President Kennedy's Dallas parade.'' Also, at the beginning of the movie, it is shown that the story is set on Halloween. In other words, we can see that the story begins on October 31st. John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22nd, so ``A Perfect World'' is set in Texas, just before his assassination.

Clint Eastwood became a star in the 1960s, and Kevin Costner became a star in the 1980s. The fact that the two, who had something in common by chance, co-starred in ``A Perfect World'' was even touted in the flyer at the time of its release as ``a Hollywood dream come true.'' And many movie fans dreamed of a teacher-student relationship between the two. However, Eastwood and Costner's filmography did not intersect after that (as of 2021).

The relationship between Costner and Eastwood that made us expect a teacher-student relationship