25 Facts About Western films

Commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

The Western films depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–"frontier justice"–dispensed by gunfights.

The popular perception of the Western films is a story that centers on the life of a seminomadic wanderer, usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.

Western films generally have specific settings, such as isolated ranches, Native American villages, or small frontier towns with a saloon.

The term "Western films", 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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Western films fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West, most commonly between 1860 and 1900.

Rosenbaum describes the acid Western films as "formulating a chilling, savage frontier poetry to justify its hallucinated agenda"; ultimately, he says, the Acid Western films expresses a counterculture sensibility to critique and replace capitalism with alternative forms of exchange.

Also known as neo-Westerns, these films have contemporary US settings, and use Old West themes and motifs.

Quick Gun Murugun, an Indian comedy film that spoofs Indian Western films 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.

Laal Kaptaan is an IndoWestern films starring Saif Ali Khan, which is set during the rise of the British Empire in India.

Epic Western films is a subgenre of the Western films that emphasizes the story of the American Old West on a grand scale.

One of the most popular German Western films franchises was the Winnetou series, which featured a Native American Apache hero in the lead role.

Also in Finland, only a few 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.

Generic term for a Western films which is combined with another genre such as horror, film noir or martial arts.

Ostern films were Western-style films produced in the Soviet Union and Socialist Eastern Europe.

Red Western films usually portrayed the American Indians sympathetically, as oppressed people, fighting for their rights, in contrast to American Westerns of the time, which frequently portrayed the Indians as villains.

Western films 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.

Examples include the American cartoon series BraveStarr, the Japanese manga series Trigun, the Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop, the American television series Firefly, and the Western films Battle Beyond the Stars, which is a remake of The Magnificent Seven; Outland, which is a remake of High Noon; and Serenity.

The classic 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 Western tropes.

Many of these films are low-budget affairs, shot in locations chosen for their inexpensive crew and production costs, as well as their similarity to landscapes of the Southwestern United States.

Western films directed by Sergio Leone were felt by some to have a different tone from the Hollywood Westerns.

Veteran American actors Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef, and Clint Eastwood became famous by starring in spaghetti Westerns, although the films provided a showcase for other noted actors such as James Coburn, Henry Fonda, Rod Steiger, Klaus Kinski, Jason Robards, Gian Maria Volonte and Eli Wallach.

Weird Western films combines elements of the classic Western films with those of other genres, particularly fantasy, horror and science fiction.

Elements of Western films can be found in some films belonging essentially to other genres.

In turn, the Western has explored noir elements, as with the films Pursued and Sugar Creek.

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