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 Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 01:36 am
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 Actually, if one stretches their imagination a bit, "September Dawn" can qualify as a "western" also because the massacre of a wagon train of immigrants portrayed did take place in the west in the 1850s. So that would make THREE westerns in one month--unheard of for decades at  theaters. We used to go a year and never see a western.

But there is more.  "No Country for Old Men"which  can be described as a "modern western" that takes place in the southwest. Maybe some would argue with me on that point. A purist would say it isn't a true western, but I have read Cormac McCarthy's book on which the movie was based and it does have a definite western vibe even though the situation is modern.  This movie comes out in early December, I think. Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and other well known actors star.

None of this current crop of movies glamorizes the western. I can't wait to see them.