-- Orson Welles, on which directors he most admired
A few years ago at GenCon SoCal, I was asked by someone (
The Four Gospels:
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Shane (George Stevens, 1953)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
The Two Commentaries:
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks' 1959 response to High Noon)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood's 1992 response to Shane)
The Two Heresies:
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
The Epistle From The Virtuous Pagan Samurai:
The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)
The Weird, Hallucinatory Apocalypse:
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1967)
Note: This is not the Ten Best Westerns of All Time, although there is a good deal of overlap. This is a primer on the Western as art and myth. Advanced students will likely scoff good-naturedly or nitpick assiduously, as advanced students will when seeing an introductory curriculum in any subject.
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