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An introduction to The Western
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BELLWORK: 9/27
Please describe the word: COWBOY. How do you view them?
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The mythic western theme is persistent in American culture, thanks in large part to
the movies. It was, for a long time, how the rest of the world saw us.
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The Great Train Robbery• 12-minute silent film in 1903 considered
the first modern film.
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The Lone Ranger The masked lawman & his trusted
Indian companion Tonto were as popular to kids as Superman & Batman.
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Television programming in the 50s & 60s consisted of many western shows, such as
Bonanza, Wagon Train, High Chaparral, The Rifleman, and Gunsmoke…but movies
were the best.
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American westerns were the things of dreams and adventure for young men growing up in the U.S.A. But were the
westerns really All-American?
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In truth, our filmmakers have often taken their leads from artists working in other
countries. Japan’s Akira Kurosawa’s classis Samurai pictures became box office successes in America, remade as westerns.
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A Fistful of Dollars director was Sergio Leone, the Italian responsible for Eastwood’s “spaghetti western”
phenomenon.
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So you could say that American westerns aren’t really so “American.” Or maybe it is, after all, America is a melting pot from all
over the world.
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John Wayne John Wayne was the ultimate western
star. But why? No one seems to be able to sum up why, except for maybe one film director, Raoul Walsh, when he said, “Dammit, the S.O.B. looked like a cowboy.”
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The Duke John Wayne, nicknamed the Duke, won his
only Academy Award performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969), of course, playing an old, cussing, shooting, U.S. Marshall.
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Western pictures had a way of influencing morals of right and wrong in American
society. There was no doubt between good and evil. The bad guy almost always wore
black.
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It’s probably no accident that the Westerns lost their popularity during the
Counterculture of the 60s & 70s (Vietnam War and Watergate Scandal). Good guys weren’t always following the rules. That
just wasn’t very American.
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Cowboys were the hero’s of the Conformist generation. Even John Wayne received a
large amount of criticism for his role in the Vietnam propaganda film, The Green
Berets.
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Heck, America even elected one of the Western’s most recognized stars as
President of the United States – Ronald Reagan.
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Don’t you think that frightened a few Cold War adversaries, after all, a pistol-packing cowboy with control of a nuclear arsenal?
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American film audiences have lost interest. People being killed slowly, just one at a time, is a plot line that won’t hold our
attention. America wants machine guns firing with lots of explosions.
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Only two westerns have been Academy Award recipients: Cimarron (1931), then six decades later, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992.) Dances with Wolves is almost a western, winning Best Picture honors in 1990.
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The Unforgiven In The Unforgiven, Eastwood, who also
directed, makes use of a popular western movie theme, the lone man. The lone man, isolated, trying to scratch a living from the unyielding soil. A former gunfighter, he is unfit for farming.
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The Unforgiven The opportunity presents itself, to pick up
his gun again and make some money, the only way he knows how, money he
wouldn’t care about if he didn’t need it to take care of his two motherless children.
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The Unforgiven Eastwood moves comfortably on to
another western movie tradition, and takes on a sidekick, Morgan Freeman. The bonds that tie men together in the Western are unbreakable. Death is the only separation.
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The Magnificent Seven Mexican villagers scrape up enough money to hire seven gunmen to protect
their homes and families from evil bandits.
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Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Greatest adventure of western outlaws, there is no better sidekick movie ever (plus lots of laughs). These bank & trains robbers are chased by U.S. lawmen all the way to South America.
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Silverado The ultimate western containing every western
theme ever devised. A group of brothers journey west to settle down, but first they have to take on the corrupt land barons and lawmen.
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High Noon Mega film star Gary Cooper plays the quiet,
mild-mannered, but good-natured sheriff of a small town, left alone, to ward off a band of thugs. He knows he’s outnumbered, none of the townspeople will help him, they’re all afraid.
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High Noon Cooper faces certain death, but he has a
duty, and he’s not running from it. Clocks are ticking on walls everywhere in the movie, moving slowly toward 12 o’clock, when the train is due to arrive with the outlaws.
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The Searchers
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The Searchers Best Western director, John Ford’s
stories, are simply about the individual as the last line of defense, a man willing to take a stand, no matter how high the price. A good example is The Searchers, starring John Wayne.
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The Searchers Disillusioned loner Ethan Edwards (John
Wayne), goes alone to search for Natalie Woods, kidnapped as a little girl by the Indians. This tough man brings her back to civilization, to her family, and then, alone, turns and walks away (the John Wayne walk) into the sunset.
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True Grit
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John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn
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True Grit U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is recruited to
hunt down the killers of a young girl’s father. Unfortunately for him, she insists on going along on the difficult journey into the wild Indian territory. John Wayne wins his only academy award for Best Actor.
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The Cowboys The only western when its alright for a grown
man to cry, because it can’t be helped. John Wayne leads a group of youngsters in a long trail cattle drive battling the harsh elements
and evil cattle rustlers.
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Homework for Extra Credit Watch one of the movies discussed in
this powerpoint, and then write a one-page summary (typed) of why the
movie made a “good” western, what kind of western themes were present.
The summary must also include a short summary of the plot and characters. Lastly, what did you enjoy about the
film.