Ron Hansen
American novelist and essayistWikipedia
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Sep 29, 2026
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Oh, this film is a masterpiece.
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Directed by Andrew Dominik based on a 1983 novel by Ron Hansen.
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And the casting is absolutely critical here.
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Brad Pitt plays the mythic, unpredictable outlaw Jesse James, and Casey Affleck delivers a completely career-defining performance as the sycophantic, deeply insecure Robert Ford.
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Oh, and it also features Mary-Louise Parker, Brooklyn Proulx, and Dustin Bollinger.
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It's basically a microscopic look at the delicate, deeply toxic relationship between these two men in the final months of James' life.
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life.Now, Ron Hansen's novel is highly acclaimed.
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It's incredibly thoroughly researched, but the text notes that a lot of readers really struggle with the source material's prose.
Tess CallahanHOST
And it's so rarely written about.
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I can only think of one other novel that I've read, Ron Hansen novel called Marriott in Ecstasy, that even touches this.
Tess CallahanHOST
It's so ineffable.
Tess CallahanHOST
So it's a great challenge and hats off.
Tess CallahanHOST
And it's so rarely written about.
Tess CallahanHOST
I can only think of one other novel that I've read, Ron Hansen novel called Marriott in Ecstasy, that even touches this.
Tess CallahanHOST
It's so ineffable.
Tess CallahanHOST
So it's a great challenge and hats off.
Renee NelsonHOST
True.
Renee NelsonHOST
So this example that she puts in her book comes from an author named Ron Hansen from a story called Wickedness, which compresses numerous horrific events related to a January 1888 Great Plains blizzard.
Renee NelsonHOST
The occasion for the scene, she says, is the blizzard.
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That's an occasion.