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Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs  Okay let's start again.
Spaghetti,Eastwood,Peckinpah,Bronson or Gritty.....
I'm not up for the 'Oklahoma,home on the range,where the buffalo roam' -'type' western.
Maybe I'm wrong......do these westerns contain violence like the abovementioned suspects? |
i think the point MB is making is that westerns went through evolutionary phases in terms of themes explored and the violence portrayed and you would never have had the grittiness without the likes of Boetticher and Mann dipping their toes in the murkier waters. hell, even Ford developed - look at The Searchers, basically Wayne was playing a racist/sociopath. there were many 50s westerns that were not just about the black hat versus the white hat.