Favorite Western Film Scene?

[Doug Williams]

Mine: Tuco

[agusto]

I dont have any favorite scenes, but i have some favorite music:

 

 

 

As a western fan you will certainly recognize it.

[Doug Williams]

I recognize all of it, Agusto. ;-) Nice!

[Doug Williams]

[Childress]

'Who's the fella who owns this sh*thole?'

 

The denouement of Unforgiven, the greatest western ever made. And the 1992 Oscar winner. Dark and profound. Richard Harris delivers a bravura performance in a subsidiary role.

 

Edited July 19, 2015 by Childress

[Doug Williams]

I have to agree. Unforgiven is amazing. Gene Hackman is perfect as Little Bill. The whole film is perfect, IMO.

[Childress]

The whole film is perfect, IMO. 

 

 

Yeah, I can't get enough of the thing. You can make a case for either Hackman or Harris in Best Actor in a Supporting role.

 

'Make sure you don't get wet.'

 

Lawman Little Bill (Hackman) confronts English Bob (Harris) and his groupie of a biographer.

 

Edited July 19, 2015 by Childress

[Doug Williams]

For a Few Dollars More.....final

[Childress]

Hmmm... The Mexican shoots the gun out of Lee Van Cleef's hand at 75 meters from a second story window. One trusts that the former's Annie Oakley-ish skill with a pistol is foreshadowed- somewhere- in the plot.

 

One the other hand this IS a spaghetti western.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Childress

[Doug Williams]

Yes, all the main characters, good and evil, in the old spaghetti westerns are crack shots and rarely, if ever, miss. If they can see it, they can hit it.

Edit: Perhaps I shouldn't say "good". Prior to the spaghetti westerns, all westerns clearly had good guys and bad guys. Often, you could tell who was who by the color of their hats. The spaghettis made popular the notion of the "anti-hero" to the western genre.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Doug Williams

[Childress]

Yes, all the main characters, good and evil, in the old spaghetti westerns are crack shots and rarely, if ever, miss. If they can see it, they can hit it.

 

Lol! Those screenwriters should have been lined up against a wall and, well, shot. That's just bad writin'. pardner.

 

Watching these old Eastwood Westerns from the 60s it strikes me what a stud muffin he was. Even as a grizzled gunslinger. Handsome in an unsettling, scary kind of way. All 6'4 of him. Eastwood was acutely conscious of his size and appearance caused and used these assets to good effect. 

 

Living in LA, I've met two Hollywood stars, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlton Heston. My socialite sister ran a charity tennis tournament in the 70s. Heston, an avid player, agreed to lend his name to the event. We drove to his digs in Coldwater Canyon one afternoon. Heston was playing tennis, bare-chested, on his private court. A good 'B' player. He towels off after the match and strolls around greeting people, exuding masculinity and tailed by a diminutive black kid porting a tray of Martinis. We shook hands. I'm 6'1 and he towered over me.

 

I, a twenty yr old, just met  Moses.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Childress

[Doug Williams]

Clint is still a badass, even in his old age.

Please excuse the departure from the western genre while I post a scene from Gran Torino.

[Childress]

I see your Clint and raise it. With his most iconic scene:

 

'I needs to know!'

 

 

And an exchange at the police station, replete with politically incorrect dialogue. Nobody takes offense, just Dirty Harry being Dirty Harry. But unthinkable today.

 

Edited July 24, 2015 by Childress

[Doug Williams]

Let's get back on topic. :-)

Edited July 25, 2015 by Doug Williams

[sburke]

why Johnnie Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave

 

[Doug Williams]

I can pretty much quote every line in Tombstone. I must have seen it at least a dozen times. Used to work with a guy who could do the same, and we would go through whole scenes together just from memory.

[Doug Williams]

[Vinnart]

"We' re burning daylight!". Favorite western line from John Wayne in "The Cowboys". It always reminds me of my Dad since we watched it together, and I used to go to work with him as a kid house painting. We would get up around 4-5am, and I would be draging ass, and he would give me the line come on "We're burning daylight!". Always made me smile because it was something between us.

[sburke]

"We' re burning daylight!". Favorite western line from John Wayne in "The Cowboys". It always reminds me of my Dad since we watched it together, and I used to go to work with him as a kid house painting. We would get up around 4-5am, and I would be draging ass, and he would give me the line come on "We're burning daylight!". Always made me smile because it was something between us.

 

Nice memory to hang onto Vinnart, priceless.

[Doug Williams]

[Childress]

Richard Harris, a notorious bad boy of the cinema when younger, reminisces about Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood, and his out-of-nowhere smash pop hit MacArthur Park.