The Western is a good genre if reasonably done. It’s a morality play, and it went along that way for 100 years. I contributed to its downfall when I made The Wild Bunch. But notice, since we made it, almost all Westerns have gone to ultra-violent.
Other than Comedies, Westerns are expensive to shoot. John Ford and Sam Peckinpah would do a shot once
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