Some people would consider western movies as some of the top action movies of all time. Popularized by John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, they often featured multiple fight scenes, gun duels, and chases. The heyday for western movies was in the 1960’s and they took a hiatus for a while, but they are now starting to make a comeback in both film and television series.
Western movies are considered a specific genre where the setting is in the American Old West in the late 1800’s. Think pioneers, wagons, and frontier families and you’re picturing western movies. In just the last decade, we saw the remark of True Grit and the following films released: 6 Guns, The Virginian, American Outlaws, Hidalgo, No Country for Old Men, Sugar Creek, and Angel and the Badman. Let’s not forget Broke Back Mountain, not one of the top action movies of all time, but a romantic western with a twist.
As the Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) are aging, they are reflecting back on their youths in addition, pining for the type of cinema they remember growing up, hence the comeback of western movies. Of course, one of the reasons for the popularity of western movies in the 1960’s was because they were filmed in the desert nearby the movie studies in Los Angeles, making it affordable and commutable. Spaghetti Westerns then came up in scene and grew in popularity. “Spaghetti Western” refers to the fact that American western movie stars like Clint Eastwood and others would travel to Italy to shoot the movie.
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