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I started to mention Justified in my last post. It was one of the best series ever as far as I'm concerned and one angle of the appeal to me was the fact that it did have that certain western element to it.
I've seen many Western Movies, just not my cup of tea. Western is my least favorite genre. It's time period just doesn't float for me, with the exception of Dances with Wolves and Last of the Mohican.
Neither of those is actually a "Western," so no Western is your cup of tea.
I prefer John Huston’s The Unforgiven to Eastwood’s Unforgiven. It’s kind’a like The Searchers turned inside out; this time the Texans have an Kiowa girl they raised as their own and her Kiowa kinsmen want her back.
Excellent cast—Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy (in the best role and bit of acting of his career), Charles Bickford, Joseph Wiseman and dig this—Lilian Gish.
I think Silverado was too contrived and self conscious. I think the best Westerns made since The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) are The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Long Riders (a Midwestern one might argue), Tombstone and Open Range.
I think the best Westerns made since The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) are The Outlaw Josey Wales,
I've probably seen that movie about 8 times or so. Generally like it and there are a lot of good lines in it but there are some parts that seem to drag on more than I care. And personally, I have a strong aversion to Sondra Locke and the Grandma character and they drove me nuts every time I watched it. But watch it, I do. And I always loved Chief Dan George in everything I ever saw him in starting with Little Big Man.
My nomination for the "ultimate Western" would be The Ballad of Cable Hogue -- a tribute to the individual's struggle within a new, open, and often-hostile environment ….. leavened with a generous dose of humor.
But the spirit of individualism and a skeptical attitude toward authority has receded -- under attack by those who would turn North America and Australia into something more like "civilized" Europe -- God help us all! About the closest "substitute" would be science fiction,
And just a thought-- would East of Eden the 1956 version set in California in 1917, and taken from John Steinbeck's magnum opus, and which, in turn, carried many Old Testament parallels, qualify as a Western?
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The western is actually a pretty broad genre once you start thinking of the modern-day westerns.
Wind River, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, and Hell Or High Water are all good examples, and there have been many made. All have 20th century settings with modern trappings, but they're all still westerns.
The west didn't end in 1880; all the myths that are the foundation of the western still apply to settings both more modern and older. The Revenant, for example, took place in the 1820s.
Yep, those all got mentioned. Hell Or High Water is the best of the lot, or the best since No Country For Old Men.
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