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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The western is a cornerstone of American cinema and, from Shane to The Searchers, many of those early, seminal, genre-defining westerns still hold up today. Filmmakers have been mythologizing the Old West for as long as they’ve been telling stories on film. Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, one of the first narrative films ever made, released in 1903, laid out the tropes and conventions of the western genre.
The quick camera pans, use of filming locations, and bursts of violent action made The Great Train Robbery a more dynamic movie than contemporary audiences were used to. It went a long way towards creating the cinematic language that would make narrative films a popular form of entertainment. The closeup of Barnes emptying his gun into the camera is so iconic that Martin Scorsese recreated it as the final shot of Goodfellas.
Wayne and Clift have one of the most captivating character dynamics in the entire western genre in Red River. Russell Harlan’s cinematography realizes the full beauty of the frontier landscapes that the cattle drive traverses throughout the film. Red River proved that westerns don’t have to just be about cowboys getting into gunfights; they can be about anything, including a strained father-son relationship.
Alan Ladd’s iconic performance as Shane dug deeper than any past trigger-happy western movie star. He paved the way for nuanced western movie performances like Warren Beatty’s John McCabe in McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Clint Eastwood’s William Munny in Unforgiven. His closing “no living with a killing” monologue is one of the best-written and best-acted monologues in movie history, resolving the themes of the story perfectly.
In Rio Bravo, Wayne’s Sheriff John T. Chance locks up a notorious outlaw and learns that in a couple of days, the outlaw’s gang will come to town and try to break him out. Instead of panicking like Gary Cooper in High Noon, Chance just kicks back and gets to know his new deputies while he awaits the gang’s arrival. Rio Bravo was the first dialogue-driven western, and it worked spectacularly.
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