I love that Superhero movies are becoming like westerns.
I love that Superhero movies are becoming like westerns. At their height, westerns told all kinds of stories framed within the western genre. There were buddy movies, action movies, romances, tragedies, comedies, revenge movies, character studies, any kind of story could be made as a western.
Now when we get a western, with very few exceptions, it’s got to hit every bullet point on some studio executive’s list of what they think a western needs. That’s why I didn’t like the 3:10 to Yuma remake from a few years ago. Here’s the gatling gun, here’s the apache attack, there’s the sociopath gunslinger, etc etc.
The superhero genre won’t go stale until filmmakers forget that they can (and should) tell many kinds of story inside the superhero frame.
Via Robert Bohl
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/28/kevin-feige-next-spider-man-will-have-new-villains-john-hughes-vibe
Now when we get a western, with very few exceptions, it’s got to hit every bullet point on some studio executive’s list of what they think a western needs. That’s why I didn’t like the 3:10 to Yuma remake from a few years ago. Here’s the gatling gun, here’s the apache attack, there’s the sociopath gunslinger, etc etc.
The superhero genre won’t go stale until filmmakers forget that they can (and should) tell many kinds of story inside the superhero frame.
Via Robert Bohl
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/28/kevin-feige-next-spider-man-will-have-new-villains-john-hughes-vibe
That's really interesting and I can definitely agree.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I did like the remake of 3:10.
Interesting take on why the Western went away. I also didn't know (but am not surprised) about the diversity of storytelling in the genre.
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ReplyDeleteHey, some back up. Silverado was made in the 80's, when westerns were now mostly out of style. Here's what a critic said:
ReplyDeletePeter Stack wrote that the film "delivers elaborate gun-fighting scenes, legions of galloping horses, stampeding cattle, a box canyon, covered wagons, tons of creaking leather and even a High Noonish duel." He openly mused, "How it manages to run the gamut of cowboy movie elements without getting smart-alecky is intriguing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverado_(film)
Good westerns since then are mostly smaller, more personal films, like Unforgiven or Open Range, or most recently, the Cohen's True Grit.