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The Mother of all Best Western Film Threads

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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 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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Nice analogy :thumbup

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Father-son irony; if you know, you know:
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"Paint Your Wagon"

Lee Marvin sings....
 

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“born, under a wandering’ star …”
 
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Haven't seen this one in decades, but recall liking it,

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I really liked "Once Upon a Time in the West ". Fun seeing Henry Fonda as the bad guy. Did a good job.

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I listened to Gene Pitney sing THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE years before I saw the movie.
https://youtu.be/PhsZkPlMQk8

It’s safe now to mention another musical western, Cat Ballou.
 
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A Classic to be seen in a CinemaScope theater!!!
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We're in the middle of watching that right now. TCM ran it couple of months ago, so we recorded it.

If you look at the YT above, you'll notice the format.

They call that "SmileBox". It's supposed to better convey the Cinemascope process.

Cinemascope is 3 cameras mated together, and when projected, it's 3 projectors sinked up to display the movie on a large rounded screen.

The distortion is pretty noticable. It's kind of the IMAX of its day.
 
I can’t understand why anybody wouldn’t think Once Upon A Time in the West isn’t the greatest one because it killed the genre. It was the ultimate horse opera, actually filmed so that the actors were moving to music being played on the set. Henry Fonda had played a bad guy before (was it Stagecoach?) so bringing him to the movie was genius. That little harmonica ditty, and what it represents, is just so powerful. And the sex energy in that thing, man…..

I guess one might want to divide the movies into ones with actual themes involving actual cattle versus murder revenge in cowboy times stories. You know cattle drives, rustlers and the like. Some westerns are more about the pioneer crossings as well. I cringe at the ones with Indians for the most part because they are just so lame and insulting. Like the one with Chuck Connors as an Apache. Hilarious, if you aren’t Apache. The Costner movie at least tried to show some respect.

There are like 100 Audie Murphy westerns and they all kinda suck. My dad watches westerns when I come up because he knows I hate Fox News but its always these lame-ass ones where the men all wear too-small cowboy hats so you’ll see their handsome face and the women have completely incorrect hairdos and such. And the way they ride horses is just sad, bouncin around in the saddles.
 
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Clints kiddo did a dark western... It is OK.

Diablo. Plays a nutcase.

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Anybody see Old Henry? Tim Blake Nelson was great in it.
 
Audie Murphy is blood to my first 3 kids. War hero type that made it in the movies. Watched some when I was a kid. Not a great actor but a real deal soldier :flag
 
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