Chapter | Forty – Five
Drama: Western
WHAT IS IT?
A narrative movie set among pioneers – often set in 1880s, in USA, Australia or Mexico.
Forget all other movies, the western is the original genre, the Native American of the movie world. Once upon a time, every film was made of shootups about lonely heroes west of the Mississippi, north of the Rio Grande, south of heaven. But then the bigbusiness corporate confederate hit town with his bigbudget blockbusters and soon the western was reduced to its own reservation in small film festivals for the faithful.
So what did the western do then? Just like you’d expect, the genre went a-wandering – ending up with some great movies from Australia, Italy, Spain, Mexico, any place where the countryside ...
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