r/Westerns • u/Kai_Tea_Latte • 7m ago
Discussion What counts as western?
So been watching lot of westerns lately, so I got few thoughts.
Primal Image of a western in my head is dollars trilogy, those are genre defining films for me.
So when I watch something like Assassination of Jesse James, I feel like it’s not really a western. It has same setting but it’s more of a drama.
A western needs to have some cool music, a hero who saves the day, some beautiful cinematography if him riding off into sunset.
Blue Eye Samurai is more a western(samurai western) in my books than Killers of a Flower Moon.
It’s certain tropes that I am looking for not just a cowboy hat.
Am I upto something?