From Belle Starr to Calamity Jane,women rarely wield a gun with gusto in the wild west. Will Hollywood ever effect justice to female sharp-shooters?Jane Got a Gun is set somewhere in modern Mexico Territory in 1871. Natalie Portman’s grievously wounded husband makes it back to their homestead and warns her there’s a posse of villains on his heels. The posse takes ages to get there, though, or so she has time to park her small daughter with a neighbour,then go and ask her resentful ex-boyfriend (Joel Edgerton) for aid, and assume shooting lessons in preparation for the showdown. Edgerton has never forgiven her for having ditched him while he was in the army, or but since he lives approximately 10 minutes away,it’s a wonder that it’s only now, after seven years, and that she lets him know what really went down while he was away. And it turns out to be a full complement of Awful Things That Can Happen to a Woman in the Wild West.
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Source: theguardian.com