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“Find hungry samurai. Even bears come down from the mountains when they are hungry,” states the Old Man of the beleaguered village in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. In the next scene, in a nearby town, four peasants look for samurai who would deign to fight for them against ruthless bandits. But would a noble samurai ever . . . → Read More: Of Rock Stars and the Rest of Us; The Seven Samurai’s Western Revival   4 comments  Cowboy Moments, Cowboy Mythos, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, Origins and Originals, The Good the Bad the Fugly, What Would Gary Cooper Do?  conflicts in westerns, cowboy hero, cowboy kurosawa, essential western plots, isao kimura, kurosawa, seven samurai, silver-screen western hero, takashi shimura, toshiro mifune, western cliches, western genre, western samurai, westerns Silver-screen western heroines have it tough. They’re not as pioneer-hard as actual historical Western women, and they have the added burden of the madonna/whore paradox, eternally scripted as being either the sweet Clementines or the volatile Chihuahuas of the Silver-Screen West. Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs (Clementine) Victor Mature, Linda Darnell (Chihuahua), and another goddamn fake saguaro (Not . . . → Read More: Yu So-chow Rocks; or, A Silver-Screen Western/Eastern Heroine Leave a comment Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web awesome cowgirls, bloodbath at golden sand, cowboylands, cowgirl mythos, cowgirls rock, double pistol heroine, my darling clementine, reach for the skies, western movies, western women, women in westerns, women of the west, yu so-chau, Yu So-chow Wyatt Earp brought himself from pragmatic businessman/lawman/gambler/loyal brother to epic gunfighter of the high plains. A straight-talking, straight-shooting saint to pray to when life needs dividing into black and white.
How’d he DO that? How can we do that too, before our ending credits? 1. Accept your averageness . . . → Read More: Roadtrip Sidebar #4; or, A How-To Wyatt Earp Makeover 2 comments Cowboy Mythos, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, Reel Life vs. Real Life, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Uncategorized, WestWays: Traveling in the American West american west, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, extreme makeover, frontier marshall, my darling clementine, myth, reach for the skies, silver-screen western hero, stuart lake, tombstone, westerns, wild west, Wyatt Earp It was a messy fight–short, bloody, and confusing, the way most fights are that aren’t guided by judges, rules and regulations, and a boxing ring. Cue Frankie Laine, please… Thanks. It’s also the epic that caused Tombstone, Arizona, to revamp itself from fading mining town to THE Wild West town, and the draw that sucks tourists from . . . → Read More: Roadtrip Sidebar #3; or, Tombstone’s Wyatt Earp, Pre-Makeover Leave a comment Cowboy Mythos, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Origins and Originals, Reel Life vs. Real Life, The Good the Bad the Fugly, WestWays: Traveling in the American West american west, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, gunfight at OK Corral, makeovers, OK Corral, silver-screen western hero, tombstone, western movies, wild west, Wyatt Earp The rental car rocked and shook on the narrow trail–I mean, road. Tucson and its spangly lights and hard-hearted soiled doves had been left far behind. My urban cowboy and I were heading south toward the frontier, toward adventure, toward a date with destiny and hopefully some great souvenirs. I had high expectations of Tombstone. OK Corral. . . . → Read More: Classic Western Setting 2; or, Tombstone, Boots, and Val Kilmer Souvenirs “I’ve been here before,” you say, and you have–in the movies.
Visiting Monument Valley, a space of mind-blowing proportion, 30,000 acres on the Utah-Arizona border, is best seen on foot, as part of a tour, or on horseback, or even in a rental car to drive through the fine red dust of the . . . → Read More: Classic Western Setting 1; or, Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii, Of Course 2 comments Cowboy Mythos, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, WestWays: Traveling in the American West american west, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, harry goulding, john ford, john ford monument valley, krazy kat, mike goulding, monument valley, travel in american west, westerns, wild west Back in the late 1800s, she was hawtness personified–Annie Oakley, sharpshooting superstar, a favorite of Buffalo Bill, Chief Sitting Bull, and European royalty. She was the idol of American youth. No, she wasn’t a cussin’, mannish, cross-dressing kind of gal. She was a typical late-1800s lady, decked out in heavy skirts and petticoats and awesomely cute . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday to Real-Life Cowgirl Hero Annie Oakley Leave a comment Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, On This Day in Western History, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events annie oakley, annie oakley birthday, buffalo bill, buffalo bill's wild west show, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, cowgirl, frank butler, pulp illustrators, reach for the skies, sharpshooting women, wild west, women in old west So in the What Silver-Screen Western Hero Are You? quiz you figured out you’re a lawman with a touch of singing cowboy and a slice of gunslinger. Excellent. But you still want to walk on the dark side. All right, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Just know that good versus evil isn’t just a story—it’s a . . . → Read More: Villains and Badmen: Your Own Worst Enemy, Part I Leave a comment Cowboy Mythos, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Cowgirl Mythos, Movie Quotes, Origins and Originals, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, What Would Gary Cooper Do? cowboylands, how well do you know your western villains quiz, reach for the skies, silver-screen villains, villain quiz, western badmen The most satisfying part of a quiz are the answers. It’s as if having something hard and fast–a yes/no/write/wrong/you are this/you are that–keeps all the demons of uncertainty at bay and hence make us happier and more satisfied, right? Who wants to be consumed by doubt when so much is at stake (you, your love interest, . . . → Read More: Which Silver-Screen Western Hero Are You?; or Part III, The Answers 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, What Would Gary Cooper Do? cowboy hero, Cowboy Mythos, cowboy quiz, cowboylands, reach for the skies, silver-screen western hero, silver-screen western hero quiz, western hero quiz The Roy Rogers Museum in Branson, MO, closed = bummer. |
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