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The Mother of all Best Western Film Threads

:p :party

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yall got the classics but forgot Blazing Saddles


Django and Hateful 8 were both great modern westerns, and if TV series count, fuckin Deadwood!
 
Deadwood, the novel, is brilliant—if you like your westerns that way. show was excellent, too. :thumbup

+1 on Cowboys & Aliens. “science fiction western,” ftw. :laughing
 
mikev said:
yall got the classics but forgot Blazing Saddles


Django and Hateful 8 were both great modern westerns, and if TV series count, fuckin Deadwood!
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Nah, someone called Blazing Saddles like a page ago, but Blazinf Saddles wasn't a western it was a Musical, you're making the French Mistake, voila!
 
Previously posted, but Once Upon a Time in the West, is a pretty stong contender IMO.
 
Eldritch said:
John Wayne's The Shootist. Perhaps there is additional sentimentality for me, because while Wayne is playing a Gunslinger on his way out as the way of the west is dying, so too is the undisputed King of the Westerns dying of cancer as he is shooting this, his final picture. Kind of makes it The Crow of Westerns, with life becoming Art and Art becoming Life.
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I was living in Carson City when they filmed this, and got to see the set. They blocked off a chunk of the town, dressed it up, and threw dirt on the streets.

My Mom was all giddy hoping to catch a glimpse of The Duke.
 
A fist full of dollars is probably a great Western interpretation of an Eastern Film.
 
Quite a few classics missing from this thread.

They Call Me Trinity and the sequel Trinity Is Still My Name are must-sees. Trinity and his brother Bambino head off to become card sharks and criminals but wind up saving villages and taking down gun runners instead.
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The Villain - Arnold has to protect Ann-Margret and her fortune from Kirk Douglas and winds up losing it all because he can't see how hot she is.

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berth said:
I was living in Carson City when they filmed this, and got to see the set. They blocked off a chunk of the town, dressed it up, and threw dirt on the streets.

My Mom was all giddy hoping to catch a glimpse of The Duke.
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That is god damned cool.

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cfives said:
A fist full of dollars is probably a great Western interpretation of an Eastern Film.
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Leone supposedly was inspired by Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which recently had been released in Italy when he started developing his picture, but Kurosawa borrowed from Western Authors, so you know. :dunno
 
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No Country for Old Men, and Hell, or High Water, are pretty good Westerns that aren't Kurosawa remakes, as far as I know.
 
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