Posted on 09/05/2007 4:37:36 AM PDT by 7thson
Clint Eastwood once said, "I feel very close to the western. There are not too many American art forms that are original. Most are derived from European art forms. Other than the western and jazz or blues, that's all that's really original." People these days don’t really care for westerns anymore, unless Hang ‘Em High is on AMC or something. No one has made a decent attempt at a true western in a number of years. Sure, perhaps we get a Kevin Costner film every few years that takes place in the old west, but it’s not a western. Those are just emotional dramas taking place in a dusty town with lawmen and outlaws. Now with two new westerns debuting in a few weeks of each other, is it the same old song and dance, or revival?
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Good recent ones? Any of them with Robert Duvall or Tom Selleck is worth watching.
High Plains Drifter (not just my favorite western, but my second favorite flick of all time - right behind The Devil’s Advocate)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Silverado
The Searchers
Lonesome Dove
Monty Walsh (TNT original?)
The Last of the Mohicans (I know it was an Eastern)
Electric Horseman
You bet. Duvall and Selleck. Broken Trail was good and that was very recent.
Hollywood managed to destroy yet another genre (see also: romance, whodunits) by injecting PC and the gay agenda.
20th century directors and studios gave us Westerns.
21st century directors and studios give us gay cowboys, sheepranchers, call them what you like.
" It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.
Hands down. Also had the best theme song.
My favorite westerns: “Shane,” “High Noon,” “3:10 to Yuma” (the first one),”Ride the High Country,” “The Wild Bunch” and “The Stalking Moon.” Yes, the classic western is a re-enactment of the conflict between good and evil. It is mythical, not realistic. But the really goods ones are very, very convincing (”Shane,” “The Stalking Moon”). The ‘modern westerns (High Noon, 3:10 to Yuma) are somewhat contemporary social critiques, disguised as westerns, but, still, pretty darn good. :)
“What’s deservin’ got to do with it?”
High Plains Drifter - absolute classic film
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
schu
“There are not too many American art forms that are original. Most are derived from European art forms. Other than the western and jazz or blues, that’s all that’s really original.”
comic books
rock and roll
the mystery novel (thank you Edgar Allen Poe)
there are more
He’s myopic.
He also forgot that the westerns he made were shot in Europe by a European director and scored by a European composer (and I’ll mention the Japanese source of the stories he appeared in).
“...Quigley Down Under....”
Now that’s a western. In fact, it’s so far west, it would be shorter to go east to get west.
How about “The Sacketts”? That was a good flick. Selleck and Sam Elliott were great in it.
In fact, I will go out on a limb and say that once your art form becomes European influenced, it tends to be degraded.
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