Most Re-Watched Movie - Westerns

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Westerns? You name it, I gotta watch it.
Yeah, when they made Tombstone and Silverado, the return of the big western with great score and Open Range, I thought we were going to see more great westerns return but instead we got The Hateful Eight and I am not a "Too Talkative" Tarantino fan. He doesn't need guns, his actors talk the other guys to death.
 

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Yeah, when they made Tombstone and Silverado, the return of the big western with great score and Open Range, I thought we were going to see more great westerns return but instead we got The Hateful Eight and I am not a "Too Talkative" Tarantino fan. He doesn't need guns, his actors talk the other guys to death.

I'm not a big Tarantino fan either but it's a Western so......
 

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Big Jake. I re-watch it all the time.

Richard Boone: Who are you?
John Wayne: Jacob McCandles.
Richard Boone: I thought you were dead.
John Wayne: Not hardly.
<Boone's character falls dead>

Love that scene!
 

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Wow. How can you watch the remake without thinking throughout the whole movie, "What's with the aversion to contractions in this flick???"
Because the film was authentic in that modern-day contractions are avoided. They don't say " I'll shot you cause you need killing." Instead, "I will shoot you because it is necessary."
I recall the bad guy in "Eldorado" greeting the other bad guys with "Hi." That is not old west talk, that is bubblegum English, bloke.
 

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Because the film was authentic in that modern-day contractions are avoided. They don't say " I'll shot you cause you need killing." Instead, "I will shoot you because it is necessary."
I recall the bad guy in "Eldorado" greeting the other bad guys with "Hi." That is not old west talk, that is bubblegum English, bloke.
I'd have to see evidence that contractions are a twentieth century creation, and even if that's the case, it's very distracting to be so aware that they're refusing to use them.
 

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I'd have to see evidence that contractions are a twentieth century creation, and even if that's the case, it's very distracting to be so aware that they're refusing to use them.
Go to any correspondence, letters, business transactions from the 1800s, and you will see how people spoke. Even the lower classes spoke with a bit of stilted but correct language. In the U.S., that is. In me dear old England, the same, matey!
 

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Go to any correspondence, letters, business transactions from the 1800s, and you will see how people spoke. Even the lower classes spoke with a bit of stilted but correct language. In the U.S., that is. In me dear old England, the same, matey!
Just because people wrote without contractions doesn't mean they spoke that way, my friend. :rolleyes: Think of the way many people speak today. Could you picture anyone writing that way?
 

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Just because people wrote without contractions doesn't mean they spoke that way, my friend. :rolleyes: Think of the way many people speak today. Could you picture anyone writing that way?
Still, any linguist or historian can tell you that the modern "True Grit," when viewed, was superior to any western as far as authenticity.
Some examples:
Phony: "you need to play me back."
More historically accurate: "I require recompense."

Phony: "I killed him."
More historically accurate: "I dispatched him."

Phony: "I'm afraid he's been killed."
More historically accurate: "I fear he has been sent to his maker."
 
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I like The Hateful Eight almost as much Pale Rider, although I know there are better Westerns that have been made. I just enjoy the heck out of them And then there's Six-String Samurai... Gorgeous.
 

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I like The Hateful Eight almost as much Pale Rider, although I know there are better Westerns that have been made. I just enjoy the heck out of them And then there's Six-String Samurai... Gorgeous.
From a true literary mind. Well done.
 

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Tombstone
Wild Bunch unrated
True Grit original
Long Riders
Unforgiven

These are a MUST
 
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