By the early 1980s, the Western seemed hopelessly irrelevant to the largest share of the moviegoing audience?the teen market. How could it ever compete with the simpleminded eighth-grade prurient voyeurism of Porky's, the futuristic and infantile fantasies of Star Wars, the primal fears of Jaws I, II, III, etc...
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? Obviously it couldn't. For all subsequent generations, then, the Western has to be rediscovered, like some store of ancient literature one studies in school. Reviewing the last twenty-five years of the Western, 1960?1985, is salutary for both aficionados and novices. The sixties began with a great film done in the sparest, most austere classical manner, Budd Boetticher's Comanche Station (1960)...
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Playboy Of The Western World: Discovering Reality The fantasy of the tale that Christy spins, and then the insanity of his father showing up again for round two is such a captivating tale that it truly infects the audience with a feeling of wonderment at the state of the peasantry...	2 / 410
Playboy of the Western World Christy's story goes out the window, causing the complete collapse of the "contract" as it is. A new, very short-term, contract arises when the villagers are allowed the entertainment of the fight between Old Man Mahon and Christy...	2 / 472
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art of the western world Leonardo creates a pyramid of intermingled gazes and forms held together by transcendent love; it is above the physical. The landscape behind the group is idealized, yet based on closely observed nature...	3 / 834