Western films have always been a staple of international & domestic cinema, with every decade since the medium began offering new masterpieces.
In every decade since the inception of cinema, Westerns have been a staple for moviegoers, consistently undergoing new evolutions and sometimes entire regenerations. With every decade has come a new genre-defining addition to the Western canon, which began with simple, short black-and-white pictures at the end of the 19th century, experienced revolutionary upheaval in the 1960s due to Italian innovation, and has seen recent remodelling with popular neo-Western films.
1920s: Greed Erich von Stroheim’s silent psychological Western Greed – whose first cut was 9 hours long, cut down from 85 hours of original footage – was a film so extravagantly made that it redefined what cinema could do. The story follows the misfortunes of lottery-winning Trina as she is caught up in a malevolent love triangle pervaded by jealousy and ambition.
1950s: The Searchers Often regarded as the best classical Western of all time, John Ford’s magnum opus The Searchers is a grand, sweeping tapestry straight out of the golden era of Hollywood. It details John Wayne’s Ethan as he seeks to find the two young daughters of a Texan homesteader after their kidnapping by Comanches. On his Homeric odyssey, Ethan’s motivations slowly evolve into racist, murderous ones, all portrayed exquisitely by Wayne in his greatest-ever performance.
1990s: Unforgiven Having grown tired of his apparent typecasting as a gunslinger by the early 1990s, Clint Eastwood decided that Unforgiven , directed by and starring himself, would be his last venture into the Western genre. Using David Webb Peoples’ original screenplay, Eastwood created a paragon of thematic resonance that earned him Academy Awards for Picture and Director.
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