For The Ones Who Like Westerns..

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Kurben

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OK. My top ten john Wayne Westerns
The Man who shot Liberty Valance - Ford
Rio Bravo - Hawks
Red River - Hawks
The Searchers - Ford
Stagecoach - Ford
True Grit - Henry Hathaway
She wore a Yellow Ribbon - Ford
Fort Apache - Ford
The Shootist - Don Siegel
Alamo - Wayne
El Dorado - Hawks
 

CrimsonKingAH

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OK. My top ten john Wayne Westerns
The Man who shot Liberty Valance - Ford
Rio Bravo - Hawks
Red River - Hawks
The Searchers - Ford
Stagecoach - Ford
True Grit - Henry Hathaway
She wore a Yellow Ribbon - Ford
Fort Apache - Ford
The Shootist - Don Siegel
Alamo - Wayne
El Dorado - Hawks
My favorite are .. all of his.. lol
 
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skimom2

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Another question..why did they wear kerchiefs around their necks? some was for covering their faces for a hold up, but what about the ones who were good guys.
Bandanas had many uses, but around the neck was so the cowboys could pull it up over their noses when they were riding drag (at the rear of a herd of horses or cows)--kept the dust out of their noses/mouths.
 
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skimom2

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Yeah, the folkses here have it right. A kerchief is just a handy thing to soak up and mop up sweat, and also to hoist up over your face, not to rob stagecoaches, necessarily, but to keep from breathing in prairie dust during a windstorm.

The Stetson is a great hat. Keeps the sun off your head and the rain outta your eyes. That's why real cowboys take their hats off indoors, not only out of manners and respect, but because they're not needed. It's jarring when I see an affected Western look out here where someone has their "cowboy hat" on inside.

YES! Sure sign that someone is NOT a cowboy is a hat worn indoors :)
 
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skimom2

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This is the central premise behind one of the best westerns I've ever seen: Unforgiven.

The "good guys" are really bad guys who haven't reformed so much as removed themselves from society, and the "bad guys" -- some of them -- are guys that you think should be good guys. To my mind, it's a story about how there isn't really any such thing as "redemption" and, while that may be a cold message, it's probably a more accurate portrayal of life in the 19th century west than anything Jimmy Stewart ever did.
I read somewhere that was the reason that Eastwood did Unforgiven: to show western nostalgia for the fairy tale it really is.
 
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skimom2

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The era in time, men wore more clothes.. and being they were out in the sun all day, they had to keep their skin protected from the elements, no matter how hot it was.
Vests were for watches and looks.
Indians had war calls... it wasn't quite the same in the movies... but they did holler, it made for a scarier attack on the enemies as well.
Cowboys didn't look clean unless it was bath day.. hahaha even on the trail they would take baths in streams/rivers/lakes/ponds and wash their clothes. They shaved at those times as well.
The hats , most of them, wore ties on them.
I love westerns

Cowboys still wear long sleeves year round, both for protection from the elements and for protection from vegetation, rope burn, cow or horse hide (the hair is damned abrasive), etc. etc.

War calls were only for attack, to startle or scare whoever was being attacked. Otherwise, tribes could move very silently (even babies and kids).
 
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skimom2

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I'll mention an exception: Silverado. Some years before Unforgiven. Not a serious Western, just a fun one. Took all the Western cliches (except for Indians, and that's OK) and executed them right. Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed. Great lines. Scott Glenn was born to play the laconic, iconic cowboy. We own it and enjoy it tremendously.
The Long Riders was damn good ,too.
 

Aericanwizard

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I'd never really been a big fan of Westerns (I found them kind of goofy), until I saw "Unforgiven". That movie is fantastic.

One of my favourites that I don't think was mentioned is the remake of "True Grit", by the Coens.

Another is "Lonesome Dove". I picked up the novel last year, and I think it was the best book I read last year.

I also liked "The Homesman", with Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank.

I picked up a few of the Eastwood westerns on the cheap a while back, but haven't gotten around to watching them. I saw "Josey Wales", "High Plains Drifter", and "Pale Rider", as well as the Leone trilogy, but have a few others to watch.

As for another western by Mr. King, I'd read it.
 

skimom2

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Excellent movie. I like how they used real brothers, Carradine, Quaid, Keach brothers to play the outlaws who were also brothers. Great flick.
It really was :) I'm not much of a western fan, to be honest, but I like a few here and there, and that is definitely one of the good ones.
 
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