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Post by StrangeLikeThat on Oct 8, 2017 19:25:35 GMT -8
It's almost time... While we wait, tell me about your favourite Western tropes.
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Post by akavidar on Oct 9, 2017 5:21:40 GMT -8
Have you ever watched the movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales"? It has all of them, and is a great Western, and a great movie.
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Post by OFTHEHILLPEOPLE on Oct 9, 2017 8:45:09 GMT -8
The call-out. Cowboys calling out other cowpoke for a fight in the middle of the street is so great as a tension builder and is a great cliffhanger of "will they or won't they go fight". I think Back to the Future III did it best where everyone in the bar knows the trope, knows what's expected to happen, and Marty just says "He's an asshole!" and tries to get out of the fight. Unexpected and an excellent use of that tension.
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Post by StrangeLikeThat on Oct 9, 2017 9:12:07 GMT -8
Have you ever watched the movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales"? It has all of them, and is a great Western, and a great movie. I've actually not seen that one.
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Post by akavidar on Oct 9, 2017 9:25:19 GMT -8
Have you ever watched the movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales"? It has all of them, and is a great Western, and a great movie. I've actually not seen that one. The Outlaw Josey Wales - 1976- Directed by and Starring Clint Eastwood. "A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family." But so much more. Favorite quotes "Hell with them fellas, Buzzards got to eat, same as worms." "You can pay me when you see me, Josey Wales." "It's not for eating, It's for lookin' through" I cannot recommend this highly enough. If you like movies with horses and six shooters, it is fantastic. Some civil war stuff, but the start of the movie is right at the end of the civil war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sNTS8FGoiE the ferry scene.
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Post by akavidar on Oct 9, 2017 9:27:12 GMT -8
And why does the song "Three Strange Days" keep playing in my head?
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Post by Starteller on Oct 9, 2017 10:24:20 GMT -8
Western movies have a strange effect on me. There is not a single western movie I ever dislike but I'm not a fan. I do not collect them. I have a few on them only. I think it is the atmosphere of those film, the sceneries. It is too nice to watch to dislike and the life so is "simple" it is easy to understand the motivations of the characters.
(Sorry I'm French. I have a hard time finding a word other than "simple" to express what I mean)
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Post by StrangeLikeThat on Oct 9, 2017 10:53:26 GMT -8
Western movies have a strange effect on me. There is not a single western movie I ever dislike but I'm not a fan. I do not collect them. I have a few on them only. I think it is the atmosphere of those film, the sceneries. It is too nice to watch to dislike and the life so is "simple" it is easy to understand the motivations of the characters. (Sorry I'm French. I have a hard time finding a word other than "simple" to express what I mean) So many classic Westerns have that really distinct line drawn between "good guys" and "bad guys"; there's something appealing about that. It makes me wish the world were so simple at times.
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Post by Starteller on Oct 9, 2017 12:11:36 GMT -8
Yes, Western movies are not about the complexity of criminal minds of modern time and it's shenanigans but what you gonna do to fix the situation and now. and the beauty of its sceneries and music
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Post by fredrix on Oct 9, 2017 14:14:06 GMT -8
The most important western trope for me is “the man forced to return to violence”. Eastwood’s Unforgiven is a prime example. But i’m also a huge fan of The Big Silence
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Post by stork on Oct 9, 2017 14:18:42 GMT -8
One of my favorites is El Dorado. It's a remake of Rio Bravo, but Robert Mitchum makes a better drunken sheriff than Dean Martin, and there is no singing. It's got the tough chick, the drunk, the old gunfighter, and the young hot head, along with the rail road/rancher tycoon and his band of paid mercenaries.
But if you want all the tropes ever in one movie, you cant beat
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Post by StrangeLikeThat on Oct 9, 2017 14:24:40 GMT -8
One of my favorites is El Dorado. It's a remake of Rio Bravo, but Robert Mitchum makes a better drunken sheriff than Dean Marten, and there is no singing. It's got the tough chick, the drunk, the old gunfighter, and the young hot head, along with the rail road/rancher tycoon and his band of paid mercenaries. But if you want all the tropes ever in one movie, you cant beat 'The Magnificent Seven' is one of the best films put to film as far as Westerns go.
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Post by akavidar on Oct 9, 2017 14:42:50 GMT -8
Yes, the Magnificent Seven is a wonderful homage to Akira Kurasowa's Seven Samurai. And also a great Western.
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Post by OFTHEHILLPEOPLE on Oct 10, 2017 5:45:33 GMT -8
I actually quite liked the new Magnificent Seven. It didn't have the best story beats but it did a good job.
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Post by flyingjackelope on Oct 11, 2017 15:31:07 GMT -8
If you want to get into a western mood, Ennio Morriocone is the guy. He scored The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and gave us this treat:
If you recognize it, it was used in Kill Bill Vol 1. when the Bride called out Oren Ishii
Spaghetti Westerns FTW
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