Westerns & the Old West

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I post exclusively about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films/pop culture. I also do figure drawings. You can find those here: @davidfigureart 🍉

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In his Leone bio, Frayling notes that Shane was a big influence on Yojimbo &amp; A Fistful of Dollars. Eastwood did his own limp remake with Pale Rider. So you'd think they'd recall that the most famous scene of violence in Shane is a gun firing with the victim in the same frame...

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) directed by John Huston The Quick and the Dead (1995) directed by Sam Raimi

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Check out this wild optical effect in Anthony Mann's 1960 adaptation of Cimarron:

Val Kilmer talks to Tom Green about making Tombstone

The Hateful 8 is based on Fair Game, a 1960 ep of The Rebel. A bounty hunter stuck at a stagecoach stop is poisoned in order to rescue his female prisoner &amp; everyone is a suspect, etc. Tarantino borrows the concept, reworks dialogue &amp; more. This vid is rightly a long, slow burn

The Frozen North (1922), directed by Buster Keaton

Robert Carradine tells John Carpenter about the time he tried to correct John Wayne on the way he was saying his lines during the filming of The Cowboys:

James Coburn on the time Bob Dylan made Sam Peckinpah cry:

When A Fistful of Dollars aired on ABC in the 70s, the network added a 4 minute prologue in an attempt to justify the film's cynical tone &amp; amoral violence. The prologue was directed by Monte Hellman &amp; stars Harry Dean Stanton:

More movies should introduce their cast like Raoul Walsh's Wild Girl (1932)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford has a lot of very similar dialogue to a 1986 TV movie starring Kris Kristofferson &amp; Johnny Cash called The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. Did the filmmakers really rip off a mediocre TV movie? (1/3)

Ennio Morricone's theme for A Fistful of Dollars was based on the arrangement he had recently done of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for American folk singer Peter Tevis. Listen to Guthrie's original, Tevis' cover &amp; the film's title theme "Titoli" 👇

Land Rush Bicyclists: Tumbleweeds (1925), directed by King Baggot 3 Bad Men (1926), directed by John Ford Cimarron (1931), directed by Wesley Ruggles Cimarron (1960), directed by Anthony Mann Far and Away (1992), directed by Ron Howard

Here's a young Sam Peckinpah playing a bit part as a bank teller opposite Joel McCrea in Jacques Tourneur's Wichita (1955). I think you'll agree that Peckinpah's performance is nuanced &amp; riveting, just like his films

Here's Clint Eastwood's first appearance in a Western, from 1956's Star in the Dust:

Howard Hawks on Ernest Hemingway:

The Wild Bunch is considered one of the first films to put squibs on both sides of an actor's body to replicate entrance/exit wounds. Sam Peckinpah had previously shown the devastating effects of a bullet tearing through a body in this scene from his TV show The Westerner:

The Big Country (1958) directed by William Wyler Stimpy's Invention (1991) directed by John Kricfalusi

The Left Handed Gun (1958) directed by Arthur Penn Pat Garrett &amp; Billy the Kid (1973) directed by Sam Peckinpah An excerpt from Sam Peckinpah's 1957 draft of One-Eyed Jacks

In his Leone bio, Frayling notes that Shane was a big influence on Yojimbo & A Fistful of Dollars. Eastwood did his own limp remake with Pale Rider. So you'd think they'd recall that the most famous scene of violence in Shane is a gun firing with the victim in the same frame...

The Hateful 8 is based on Fair Game, a 1960 ep of The Rebel. A bounty hunter stuck at a stagecoach stop is poisoned in order to rescue his female prisoner & everyone is a suspect, etc. Tarantino borrows the concept, reworks dialogue & more. This vid is rightly a long, slow burn

When A Fistful of Dollars aired on ABC in the 70s, the network added a 4 minute prologue in an attempt to justify the film's cynical tone & amoral violence. The prologue was directed by Monte Hellman & stars Harry Dean Stanton:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford has a lot of very similar dialogue to a 1986 TV movie starring Kris Kristofferson & Johnny Cash called The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. Did the filmmakers really rip off a mediocre TV movie? (1/3)

Ennio Morricone's theme for A Fistful of Dollars was based on the arrangement he had recently done of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for American folk singer Peter Tevis. Listen to Guthrie's original, Tevis' cover & the film's title theme "Titoli" 👇

Here's a young Sam Peckinpah playing a bit part as a bank teller opposite Joel McCrea in Jacques Tourneur's Wichita (1955). I think you'll agree that Peckinpah's performance is nuanced & riveting, just like his films

The Left Handed Gun (1958) directed by Arthur Penn Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) directed by Sam Peckinpah An excerpt from Sam Peckinpah's 1957 draft of One-Eyed Jacks