Western astrology

could be as gripping of a western film as ‘Hell or High Water,’ in today’s pop culture, you would tell me that I was crazy. The stellar performances of two unstoppable bank robbers, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, and a Texas ranger out on his last case before retirement, Jeff Bridges, make this dream a reality. Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, and Chris Pine star in a revolutionary movie that was created to bring back a culture of western films. It is bound to be a classic western heist movie, and might…

One of the greatest myths is; all Cowboys wore cowboy hats, when in reality that isn’t the case. They often wore hats wore hats such as the flat pancake hat or the bowler hat. Another rumor or myth was that all bank robbers such as Black Bart or the Dalton Gang ruled the west. Truth be told is that the towns were so small the Sheriff wouldn’t be very far away, even if the robbers got away with the loot it wouldn’t be but a small fraction of the amount banks today have. More criminals would…

Robert R. Dykstra the professor of history and public policy at the New York State university in one of his books The Cattle Towns, talked about that “ the historical record did not support the violence and lawless and image of wide-open in famous end-of-the-trail communities such as Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell” (p. 205). He also mentioned that “ the legend of cattle town killings and cowboy violence lived on in public expression and popular fiction” (p. 205).The…

The evolution of these Westerns would have a deep connection with Arizona landscape and also the culture of cowboys and various minority groups that were living in Arizona. This evolution of Westerns brought more sophisticated storylines that image the Arizona culture and society. Films that were being filmed in Arizona locations started to establish cowboys who were admired by audiences as American heroes. While these films were able to shed a positive light on the cowboys, it didn’t do the…

the genre of western of their era each. Nevertheless, films can hardly be called similar even with having almost the same means of entertaining and story performance. Thus, I would like to start from the definition of classic western. Western is an art direction, common for the United States, it includes a variety of genres, such as comedy, action, detective and thriller. Action to Westerns generally occurs in the second half of the XIX century, in the Wild West - in future it is western United…

contemporary western genre. The main character, Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), is a professional rider in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show that relies on his equestrian skills to make money as a long distance rider. Hopkins’ horse, Hidalgo, is a “low-breed’ mustang that provides an unorthodox and individualistic view of horse racing in comparison to the master breed of Arabic horses in the “Ocean of Fire” race across the Najd desert. Hopkins self-reliance is part of the singularity of the…

The film, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” directed by Sergio Leone, the father of Spaghetti Westerns, is considered one of the best Westerns of all time. It launched Clint Eastwood into stardom as, “The Man with No Name” also known as Blondie “The Good”, through his interactions with his co-stars Lee Van Cleef, Angel Eyes “The Bad”, and Eli Wallach, Tuco “The Ugly”. The hero here, Blondie, is not the typical hero that you would expect, but through an analysis of several scenes, one begins to…

Jane Tompkins’s West of Everything is an energetic and lively account of the most beloved and legendary American genre—The Western. Western films and novels have become a large part of many American’s lives and continues to influence filmmaking to this day. People from all over the world visit western states to have what they think is the cowboy experience. West of Everything expresses a heavy concern with the role of gender in the genre, however, and points out that it is a male dominated field…

There is nothing more classical in film then the Western, and no one tackled the Western better than John Ford. Shawn Dwyer a classic movie expert states, “if there was ever a director-actor tandem that defined the Western genre, it was John Ford and John Wayne” (Dwyer 1). His film Stagecoach was the first of it’s kind in the film industry as being the first talking picture in the Western genre. The film included everything known to the classic Western, however, Ford wanted to question some…

many characteristics of a classic western. Everything from the horses, bounties, and violence point to this movie being a typical western film. However, because of the abundance of twists and turns it would be considered a revisionist western movie. Despite its few traits of a classic western, everything ranging from the unclear heroes to the absence of typical female roles lead to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly classifying as a revisionist western. A typical western movie has a very distinct…