Like the landscapes in classic westerns, it's the place where the individual and the mythic can merge.
The classic westerns often held out the possibility of redemption for their socially outcast heroes.
This affectionate spoof of the classic Western has lost none of its charm on the home screen.
An episode of the "Biography" series about the director of classic American westerns.
This link resulted in a type of bond between classic westerns and "hardboiled detective" films.
It's a great wilderness area that will be familiar from classic Westerns, where settlers came in their rickety stagecoaches.
The film was described as an "homage to classic westerns and telenovelas" and shot in Spanish.
The same issues of liberty and organization, territory and property, integrity and compromise that animated the classic Western are at work.
The film is a good place to start as Leone references at least 30 classic American Westerns to create his own riveting and moving story.
Good guys from Frank Sinatra to Henry Fonda gunned him down in classic westerns.