The Westerner is regarded as one of those classic genre films so easily identifiable by the public due to its characters, settings, and story plots. These movies are filled with semantic and syntactic elements, such as small dusty towns, bars, horses, guns, and cowboy hats, with the ultimate showdown between the lone “good guy cowboy” against the trouble makers of the town. The Westerner always seems to end with the hero freeing the town from the grasp of the bad boys. The lone cowboy is then expected to ride off into the sunset, out of the town which he just saved and brought back to justice, to wander into his next daring adventure in the next helpless town that comes along. These movies involve good vs. evil, and the central focus is strong figures that fight for dominance. Who holds power and how they […]
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