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Captain Jesus posted:I randomly watched The Great Silence last year on tv without knowing anything about it and it really stayed with me. The winter setting is fairly unique for a western and I was honestly shocked by how merciless the ending was. The music is also really good. It's the best example of lawful neutral/evil I can think of in a movie.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Which version of Three Godfathers is the “canonical” one? I watched the 1936 one and it was pretty good, easily the best Christmas Western I’ve seen. The John Wayne one was directed by John Ford, so that one wins. Though his 1926 silent Three Bad Men is wonderful. It's the story of 3 outlaws who decide to look after a young woman whose father is killed in a raid by a different group of bandits. What got me is how good Tom Santschi's performance is, but also how John Ford's work seemed to be created in anticipation of John Wayne. Like, Ford had all the elements in place, but he needed Wayne to arrive as a leading man to complete the formula. I highly recommend it, it's got great performances, some pretty good humor, and it's clearly where Far and Away got it's scene of the settlers lining up and waiting for a canon shot before racing to claim a piece of land. Here's a still from the movie: 
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Basebf555 posted:Finally watched The Great Silence and goddamn, that is a brutal ending. Not sure I've ever seen an ending quite like that in a Western. "And all according to the law."
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Arcsquad12 posted:There's very little story to the Revenant which makes it hard for me to call it dumb since there's very little to criticise from an acting standpoint. Tom Hardy was great. The best thing is when you realize that Tom Hardy is channeling Tom Berenger in that movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhJ7DZdL0AQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bw8UM1eLFo
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German westerns from the 30s are an odd bunch. Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936) features a main character that rides into San Francisco to a heroe's welcome at the end of the film and basically act like Hitler at Nuremberg, complete with "Nazi" salute. It's pretty bizarre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4mTDnSOTnQ&t=39s
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I just got done watching A Bullet for the General. What are some other good socialist/revolutionary spaghetti westerns?
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ruddiger posted:Fistful of Dynamite aka Duck, You Sucker I'm well familiar with that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd3JrFXLrA0 A Bullet for the General is amazing, it ends with the bandit/revolutionary telling a peasant not to spend money on food, but on dynamite to continue the struggle. It also has one of my favorite things, finding out the kettle drums on the soundtrack are actually one of the characters playing them to harass their prey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsbzC6fMjZo
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