Observation on Westerns

[ariandshan]

A bit off target here but when people are sitting in the dark ( but we can still see them) and they turn on a flash light. They always point it at their faces to see if it works. WTF!!!!

 

[bobsguns]

There is an outhouse scene in "The Missouri Breaks".

Also one in The Young Riders. The Brian Keith shoot-out scene. Pretty funny.

 

[lihpster]

Two different outhouses in The Hateful 8.

 

[CH4]

I don't know that I've ever even seen an outhouse in most TV westerns. Only movies I can think of offhand where one is shown or mentioned is in Pale Rider and Blazing Saddles.

Unforgiven

 

[bobsguns]

Two different outhouses in The Hateful 8.

That was one of the weirdest movies I ever watched. Right up there with Blue Velvet.

 

[rockquarry]

That was one of the weirdest movies I ever watched. Right up there with Blue Velvet.

It was not only weird, it was terrible. To waste a good cast on a typical Tarantino film is regrettable.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Kanewpadle]

It’s interesting how observant some of you are.

 

[38 Specialist]

Westerns are a complete and total farce. The depictions of the technology, society, the history are complete fabrications. There were actual cowboys back back then. They were often black or Mexican. There was tighter gun control then than there is today.

We have a romantic vision of the Old West. And like so many of our romantic visions of bygone days....it's just a Hollywood fabrication.

 

[Rubone]

Westerns are a complete and total farce. The depictions of the technology, society, the history are complete fabrications. There were actual cowboys back back then. They were often black or Mexican. There was tighter gun control then than there is today.

We have a romantic vision of the Old West. And like so many of our romantic visions of bygone days....it's just a Hollywood fabrication.

Over the years I have worked with French, Swiss, Italian, German, and other European nationals. To a fault they are all enamored of the notion of the "Wild West". They want to live in Tee Pees, smoke pipes, wear buckskin, just about any cliche' you can think of, they are all in. Pretty funny stuff!

 

[SGT ROCK 11B]

Over the years I have worked with many Americans who were enamored of the notion of the "Wild West" too.

Today most Americans are just "City Slickers".

 

[chief38]

And, remember that Paladin stated in the very first episode of Have Gun Will travel that his Colt SAA had a 1 ounce trigger pull. Don't know how many here ever caught that.

 

[Bekeart]

Matt Dillon will ride up to a campsite with flat saddle bags, yet in the next scene he is cooking beans over a campfire with a large Dutch oven and has at least a washtub sized coffee pot. Yet when he leaves in the morning, the saddle bags are flat, and the bedroll has mysteriously disappeared. Worst yet, when someone dies on the trail, a shovel that was never present in any previous scenes, suddenly appears to dig the grave, but is not on the horses when they ride away.

Sitting around the campfire and singing.
Where did the guitars come from?
No large guitar size lumps in saddle bags.

Bekeart

 

[Alpo]

And, remember that Paladin stated in the very first episode of Have Gun Will travel that his Colt SAA had a 1 ounce trigger pull. Don't know how many here ever caught that.

It was not a Colt Single Action Army.

It was a custom-made Hamilton.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I don't know that I've ever even seen an outhouse in most TV westerns. Only movies I can think of offhand where one is shown or mentioned is in Pale Rider and Blazing Saddles.

What about The Unforgiven?

 

[Nevada Ed]

I hate to tell you this folks, but in the old days a lot of places had windows with lots of 16x10" glass that were four foot wide and
about seven foot high and did NOT open.
They were just for looking or letting the sunlight in.
My father perchased a old 1800 school house , with no moving windows but the wood wook was all tounge and grove and
the workmanship was amazing.
It made for a great fish/deer camp for his friends.

 

[Hair Trigger]

What about The Unforgiven?

It's been a long time since I saw the flick, so I don't remember. There is one in Pale Rider during the gunfight near the end, and one in Open Range.

 

[johnbeaver]

Years ago, I was channel surfing and came across a movie. B&W. I remember not the name, but the opening scene is forever burned in my memory.
Train pulling into the station. Sun setting behind the mountains in the distance. Wind blowing dust and tumbleweeds. Train pulls in slowly to reveal the sign... Beaumont, TX.
And movies are where a lot of people get their perceptions of the west and Texas in particular.
At a big Boy Scout Jamboree, in Beaumont, a lot of the Eastern and Northern scouts were wondering is this really Texas. Did not fit what they had in mind.
Our troop built a ferris wheel out of pine logs lashed together. Worked pretty well... for a while.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Hard to miss all those outhouses!
The old time rail fence was typically ‘stacked’, no nails or other retainers.
On days of Yore, nails handmade and relatively expensive.
And Good old Bailing Wire was yet to come!

 

[WardenRoss]

IIRC...In Appaloosa, Bragg was captured while going to the outhouse.


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