Best Gunfight In a Western! (2003, movies, fashion, characters)
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The finale in The "Culpepper Cattle Company" is one of my favorites. As well as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", the end showdown in " The Shootist" and the final square off in "The Big Country". To me its not just the shooting but the drama and characters in it.
What's been lauded as a great showdown was the the square off in " The Good The Bad and The Ugly". It came reasonably close, but I so wanted to see each three characters truly face off againbst the others and have it drawn out more. Tuco had no bullets in his gun( like he never would have checked) and Angel Eyes was killed too quickly. Having them empty their guns and show the conflict of truly having to calculate every shot and weigh it against giving anybody the upper hand would have made it truly memorable.
What's been lauded as a great showdown was the the square off in " The Good The Bad and The Ugly". It came reasonably close, but I so wanted to see each three characters truly face off againbst the others and have it drawn out more. Tuco had no bullets in his gun( like he never would have checked) and Angel Eyes was killed too quickly. Having them empty their guns and show the conflict of truly having to calculate every shot and weigh it against giving anybody the upper hand would have made it truly memorable.
The reason that Open range got my vote was the authenticity of the weapons, how they were used, the smoke, and confusion. I could have done without the flying bodies from a shotgun blast but you can't have everything.
Playing a bit like a Fellini movie, maybe short on action but the build-up is worth the wait...favorite is the opening scene in 'Once Upon a Time in the West'. I had seen somewhere that Clint Eastwood (remember this was in 1968) had originally been pegged to be one of the three bad guys but couldn't get out of a previous commitment (Hang 'Em High?). In any case...
Another movie of legends, Warren Oates, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and John Anderson.
Anyway Peckinpah was the grand master or onscreen mayhem. The Wild Bunch set a standard for gunfights. But I love the modern adherence to realism (well as much realism as movies can get).
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