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posted April 07, 2025 05:38 PMHide Post
I have a top ten that I consider to be " cowboy / westerns"

In the last two years I've been liking the lite versions
Of the genre.

Like Big Hand for a Little Lady, Maverick, Support your local Sheriff,
Support your local gun Fighter, The Cheyanne Social Club, Rounders.

I dislike civil war movies and Mexican American war movies.





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posted April 08, 2025 02:55 PMHide Post
Good Westerns should also have saloon girls, beans and lots of them by the campfire, slimy scoundrels masquerading as public servants, some rustling and horse thefts, maybe some sodbusters and sheepherders, wagon trains...and panoramic vistas that stir the soul. Movies of the Oregon, Santa Fe, and California trails and legends; Westerns. War movies set before 1865, not so much to me.

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posted April 08, 2025 03:12 PMHide Post
The late Frank Gruber categorized the Western film into seven basic plots:

  • Union Pacific Story: Focuses on the construction of a railroad, telegraph line, or other modern technology in the frontier.

  • Revenge Story: Involves a protagonist seeking vengeance for a wrong done to them.

  • Cavalry and Indian Story: Centers around conflicts between settlers and Native Americans.

  • Outlaw Story: Features outlaw gangs as central characters.

  • Marshal Story: Highlights the challenges faced by lawmen in the frontier.

  • Taming of the West Story: Depicts the process of bringing civilization to the frontier.

  • Cowboy Story: Focuses on the life and adventures of cowboys in the Old West.
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    posted April 09, 2025 07:25 AMHide Post
    Wow, that's great!

    quote:
    Originally posted by parabellum:
    The late Frank Gruber categorized the Western film into seven basic plots:

  • Union Pacific Story: Focuses on the construction of a railroad, telegraph line, or other modern technology in the frontier.

  • Revenge Story: Involves a protagonist seeking vengeance for a wrong done to them.

  • Cavalry and Indian Story: Centers around conflicts between settlers and Native Americans.

  • Outlaw Story: Features outlaw gangs as central characters.

  • Marshal Story: Highlights the challenges faced by lawmen in the frontier.

  • Taming of the West Story: Depicts the process of bringing civilization to the frontier.

  • Cowboy Story: Focuses on the life and adventures of cowboys in the Old West.




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    posted April 10, 2025 02:51 PMHide Post
    I would include
    2 guys chasing after the same woman.





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    posted April 10, 2025 09:14 PMHide Post
    quote:
    Originally posted by Loswsmith:
    I've had people argue to me that Star Wars isn't sci-fi. People are, in short, sometimes just fucking dumb.

    It isn't. There's nothing scientific about it.
    What genre is Star Wars? Simple to determine, just describe it in one sentence. Here goes.

    A farm boy learns to use magic from a wizard and teams up with a couple of scoundrels in order to break into a fortress of doom and rescue a princess from a dark lord.

    Star Wars is a fairy tale.




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