Film Analysis: Once Upon A Time In The West

When it comes to films, I am generally open to almost anything and by almost, I mean, anything with the exception of Westerns. I cannot stand them with everything in my being. None of it makes sense to me, none of it looks real and it just does not appeal to me. Growing up, I seen or should I say, was forced to endure westerns if I wanted to watch television, because my mother was a big western fan. That may be what led to my extreme distaste for them now, having to watch them every day as a child. We still have a collection of John Wayne VHS tapes in a bookcase. After viewing, Once Upon a Time in the West, my opinion of westerns has not changed one bit. The elements in every western are pretty much the same, the country setting with rustic house, tumbleweeds, train engine sounds, harmonicas, dirty clothes, cowboy hats, horses, magnums and shotguns and people getting shot to a very fake gun shoot sound over with banjo music. They all look the same, they all generally do the same thing, and the only differences are the people playing the characters. I do not feel like much …show more content…
The use of country homes, grass and dirt settings and nature that we see in basically all westerns come from a time when that was all that was of the Hollywood hills, a time when people were traveling by horses. Seeing the footage and photos of what Beverly Hills used to be, makes me understand where the idea of the westerns comes from. It is crazy to think about a time when the west was basically nothing, because it so much there now. But westerns were created at a time when people could reignite with them, when that was the way that people in the west lived. Unfortunately they became popular and are here to torture generation after