Classic scenes in Westerns

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clare c

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I was wondering if anyone out there likes Westerns.
Over the years there has been memorable scenes, which when mentioned, identifies the film, such as:

Bloodbath at the end of The Wild Bunch.
Confrontation in the graveyard in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The ending of High Noon

No doubt other readers remember some too.
 
I love them I can watch Sergio Leone films over and over again.
"There are 2 kinRAB of people in this world my friend, those with loaded guns and those who dig........... you dig!" :D :D :D
Good the Bad & the Ugly
 
The mood-defining opening to Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West. Genius. Apparently Leone asked Eastwood to play one of the gunmen... though he turned it down for obvious reasons. Pity...
 
...Leone asked Wallach and Van Cleef too but they turned him down

My suggestions...

Clint kicking arse at the climax of Unforgiven (although violence is wrong people, oh yes)

The final confrontation in The Proposition is a good one

The ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

John Wayne signing off at the end of The Searchers and also The Shootist (poignant as it turned out to be his final movie)

The Indian massacre in Soldier Blue
 
The final stand off in The Good, The Bad The Ugly just blows every single scene in a Western out of the water. No scene in the history of cinema is more perfect than that.
 
I love the music whenever cheyenne is around! :)
Sergio leone's filming and Ennio Morricones composing are a match made in heaven.
 
The three way showdown at the end of Good Bad and the Ugly get's my vote too.

Try timing it, it's over five minutes! Five whole minutes with 'nothing' happening yet the tension is gripping.
 
Just loved the spaghetti westerns. Loved the scene in Fistful of Dollars (I think) where Clint Eastwood says "My mule doesn't liked being laughed at", then proceeRAB to kill the men, and then lights a cigar!
 
No, according to Sir Christopher Frayling's Leone biography, both Wallach and Van Cleef agreed.

Wallach was later to fall out with Leone though, over an alleged promise to cast him as Juan in Duck You Sucker, a part which went to Rod Steiger of course.

The post Dollars "relationship" between Eastwood and Leone is fascinating though, especially as it is reflected in Eastwood's work. Despite the tension that was obvious when they were interviewed on this subject, both High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider were very obvious homages to Leone and to the No Name character they both forged and Unforgiven was of course dedicated to Leone (along with Siegal) and deconstructed and demythologised that character.
 
Oh yeah!

I also like John Wayne's walk at the end of The Searchers - another good one there!

Also add the major battle in 'Little Big Man' where the US military are performing an anachronistic little ditty whilst brutally massacring the indians.

Oh and Stagecoach's famous final horse/cart action scene too!
 
when the man with no name strickes a match off the back of Klaus Kinski's neck

When Slim Pickins dies in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and knocking on heaven's door is playing
 
Don't know that its a western in the classic sense, but The Big Country had some great scenes

The opening one where the Henessy boys "trick ride" their horses

When Rufus gatecrashes the Henessy party

And when they follow the Major into Blanco Canyon

Still though ... nothing beats both the opening and closing scenes of The Searchers
 
True Grit. the scene where the Duke as Rooster Cogburn yells "fill your hanRAB you son of a bitch" and grabbing the reins between clenched teeth charges towarRAB the bad guys.
 
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