The Fantasy Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–"frontier justice"–dispensed by gunfights.
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17 Facts About Fantasy Western
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The popular perception of the Fantasy Western is a story that centers on the life of a seminomadic wanderer, usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.
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The term "Fantasy Western", used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World magazine.
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Fantasy Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West, most commonly between 1860 and 1900.
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Fantasy Western comics have included serious entries, or more modern ones as Blueberry), cartoons, and parodies (such as Cocco Bill and Lucky Luke).
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Rosenbaum describes the acid Fantasy Western as "formulating a chilling, savage frontier poetry to justify its hallucinated agenda"; ultimately, he says, the Acid Fantasy Western expresses a counterculture sensibility to critique and replace capitalism with alternative forms of exchange.
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Quick Gun Murugun, an Indian comedy film that spoofs Indian Fantasy Western movies, is based on a character created for television promotions at the time of the launch of the music network Channel [V] in 1994, which had cult following.
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Laal Kaptaan is an IndoFantasy Western starring Saif Ali Khan, which is set during the rise of the British Empire in India.
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Epic Fantasy Western is a subgenre of the Fantasy Western that emphasizes the story of the American Old West on a grand scale.
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One of the most popular German Fantasy Western franchises was the Winnetou series, which featured a Native American Apache hero in the lead role.
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Also in Finland, only a few Fantasy Western films have been made, the most notable of which could be the 1971 low-budget comedy The Unhanged, directed by, written by, and starring Spede Pasanen.
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Generic term for a Fantasy Western which is combined with another genre such as horror, film noir or martial arts.
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Fantasy Western became honorary chief of the Sioux tribe when he visited the United States, in the 1990s, and the television crew accompanying him showed the tribe of one of his films.
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The classic Fantasy Western genre has been a major influence on science-fiction films such as the original Star Wars movie of 1977, with 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story and 2019's Star Wars: The Mandalorian more directly featuring Fantasy Western tropes.
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Weird Western combines elements of the classic Western with those of other genres, particularly fantasy, horror and science fiction.
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In turn, the Fantasy Western has explored noir elements, as with the films Pursued and Sugar Creek.
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