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This blog is for all things Clint Eastwood (and other westerns too). Mostly slashy things My film recs: 30 Days of Western challenge

[anintelligentoctopus]

Top 5 or 10 Rawhide episodes!

In vague order (bear in mind there’s 217 episodes, most of which I’ve only seen once):

IOT Devil and His Due (everything)

IOT Road to Yesterday (good plot, Rowdy’s drunk act)

A Man Called Mushy (Mushy, Favor/Rowdy tension, Mushyates feelings)

IOT Town in Terror (sick!Rowdy)

IOT Roman Candles (Pete!)

IOT Sharpshooter (good Favor episode)

Rio Salado (poor Rowdy)

IOT Red Wind (Favor/Rowdy tension, Neville Brand!)

IOT Running Man (50 minutes of bad things happening to Rowdy)

IOT El Toro (the focus on Jesús, good Favor/Rowdy stuff)

[rawhiiiiide]

That is an excellent list!

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In totally random order apart from #1: 1. The Race 2. IOT Devil and His Due 3. A Woman’s Place (good treatment of sexism, including Favor’s and Rowdy’s) 4. Season 8, Ride a Crooked Mile (hints of Jed/Rowdy) 5. Season 8, The Pursuit (one of the series’ best villains, and hints of Jed/Rowdy) 6. Incident in the Middle of Nowhere (decent plot, funny F/R moments) 7. The ep where F and R are stuck in a town that wants to hang a man hiding in a well (tension, lovely F/R moments, someone please find the title) 8. The two-part ep with Burgess Meredith playing an executioner (title please) 9. IOT Red Wind (Favor wrong, and admits it) 10. The S 1 or 2 ep where Favor is horrible to everyone, so everyone quits, but at the end they recover the herd and re-join (Favor wrong, and admits it, lovely F/R interaction at the end, title please)

[stephantom]

Another good list! 

Except that I’m just really not fond of “A Woman’s Place” (I’d rather not see our protagonists be that sexist, honestly–and Rowdy punches Favor in the face out of nowhere at one point (for trusting a woman doctor with another drover’s life) and I’d rather not see that either). At some point, I think I got a little tired of the kind of social commentary in fiction that mostly involves basically going, “See how bad it was back then? See how realistic we’re being by showing that?” Idk. Why not show me what a good alternative could be instead. I guess it’d be weird and maybe frustrating to have the lead characters just be idealized white knights too. But the thing is, the show does make them out to be like that half of the time–like in the season 1 episode “Power and Plow” where Favor and Rowdy stand up for a Comanche man and clearly denounce racism, maybe a little anachronistically. Maybe it’s the inconsistency which rubs me wrong. 

7. That’s “Incident of Fear in the Streets” from season 1. I love that one a lot too.

10. You may be thinking of “Incident of the Dog Days” from season 1? (But Rowdy and Wishbone never quit in that one, and Rowdy in particular keeps defending Favor throughout.)

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Final (?) thought on A Woman’s Place. Agree re inconsistency on ideological viewpoints (Native Americans occasionally constructed as dignified in their difference, as opposed to women who on the whole are not allowed to be equal). This is why I liked A Woman’s Place: I focused in the representation of the dictor. A woman approx Favor’s age, who does not have or need a man. She knows what she is up against and rationally holds her ground. She does not fall in love with anyone, nobody falls for her, she deals with issues acknowledging her emotions without being overcome by them. Idk, I see her as someone who looks like a woman, does not have any masculine mannerisms, yet implicitly wants to deal with the world as first and foremost a human being, irrespective of gender. My perspective is that of a cis woman who spent her life believing in differences needing to be “on the table” in any discussions of “equal value” (equal to what, anyway?).

[thejokerside]

1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at 50

1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at 50

“Kicking off with a different loner”

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was released in Italy 50 years ago today, completing Sergio Leone’s hugely influential trilogy. The Dollars Trilogy? The Man With No Name trilogy? Whatever it completed, however it fits with the other films, Jokerside salutes the 50th anniversary of a classic that created and consolidated a sub-genre…

IT’S 50 YEARS SINCE ENNIO…

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“Captain Favor, must have been a fine man, died a hero! Story goes, he got his whole company out before he went down. Miss Abigail just can’t stop pining for that man.”

“And Miss Abigail is his…?”

“Widow.”

tbh i dislike most of this episode, but rowdy singing a love song for mr. favor, confident that this whole “widow” thing is all just a crazy lie or mistake, before becoming distressed by the possibility that favor might, in fact, be married is 👌 

[subsequentibis]

seriously. so many deez nuts opportunities in this movie.

[tiya-minuscule]

Yesterday, for the first time, I saw “The good, the bad and the ugly”… And I loved it! I’m not a huge fan of western movie, but I loved the atmosphere, the characters and the dialogues so much! So here is a little animation of Angel Eyes or “the bad”

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"Spaghetti Western" Cinema: Sergio Leone's Camera Angles

Study the father of “Italian Western"a.k.a. “Spaghetti Western” genre Sergio Leone through a brief camera analysis on his epic film “Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)”.

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NB re: homoeroticism in Spaghetti Westerns: “The height of manliness in Leone’s films is to ignore beautiful women”

[artyomrilen]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was released 50 years ago today.

[clinteastwood-blog]

Another Birthday!

According to IMDb, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly opened in Italy on 23 December 1966″

Happy Birthday, guys!

[stephantom]

An unbiased recap of important things that have happened so far in the first half of the first season of Rawhide: 

Rowdy tells a mercenary killer that if he’s after Mr. Favor, he’ll have to come through Rowdy first

Favor leaves the herd to go help Rowdy out in a personal fight

Rowdy yells at people who don’t address Favor as “Mr. Favor”

Favor gets angry & sad when Rowdy announces he’s quitting over a girl whom Favor thinks is taking advantage of Rowdy

“You make me wish I could reach for a hickory rod.”

Favor and Rowdy get into a fistfight, mostly consisting of rolling around in the dirt together

“When you’re always riding me, and you never say anything good even when I get things right, I don’t get sore at that. Because I know you’re just trying to make me better at my job.”

Any time Favor leaves the herd for some innocuous reason: “Rowdy, you want to come along?” “Sure thing.”

Any time Favor leaves the herd for some dangerous reason and doesn’t ask Rowdy along: “I’m going with you.”

Rowdy and Favor are captured and tied to a couple of trees, next to each other, shirtless, to be whipped (Rowdy looks nervous (trying to see the whip behind them); Favor looks pretty stoic (just watching Rowdy with concern/regret))

“As long as I have you for company, I’ll walk up to the devil himself.”

Some bad guys start beating up Favor; Rowdy comes running to his rescue but gets hit in the head with the butt of a rifle and goes down; Favor, with uncharacteristic emotion: “You hit him again, I’ll kill you!”

Rowdy gets sick and passes out; Favor runs to him, lifts him up

Feverish Rowdy calls out for Mr. Favor (who rushes over to him) and weakly apologizes for holding up the herd and causing so much trouble

Favor stays by Rowdy’s side while he’s sick, even though everyone’s afraid it’s contagious and deadly; watches him sadly while he sleeps; risks his life to get him medical aid and shelter, etc.

And to sum up the two of them:

Gil Favor – team dad, lonely leader older than his years (mid 30s), burdened with tough calls and the responsibility of his men, can’t show weakness (but will own up to mistakes), great deadpan, great baritone

Rowdy Yates – temperamental cinnamon roll, babyface of this cowboy band (early/mid 20s) but second in command, likes being liked, plays piano*, frequently smiling, frequently injured, frequently shirtless

*I haven’t seen this ep yet (it’s season 5), but here’s Rowdy singing and playing piano at Favor’s fake wedding or party or something? (I don’t know the details, but something about stolen identity and playing along for.. something.. I don’t know). Favor shows up with his pretend wife at the very end of the clip and Rowdy is so shocked by the sight of him all decked out in military regalia, with possibly a wife?, that he almost doesn’t finish the line “you gave me your love.” lol

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[mcicioni-blog]

Can we talk about Italian Westerns?

I’ll start by saying that I am a bona fide slash fan. Some of my stuff is on AO3. However

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[oldwesternaction-blog]

I fully agree! (Hence the existence of this blog).

Also, I have some thoughts in response to this, but catastrophically busy right now, I solemnly swear to write a proper reply that goes beyond “fully agree”. 

[jaeun90]

[lushthemagicdragon]

Consider if you will: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them, but in the Wild West.   Newt Scamander the Englishman who goes out West to save the Magical Buffalo and acclimatize his buddy the Thunderbird to the wild.   Jacob is a no-maj baker who is going out West to start a new life and whom Newt meets on the train and commandeers as his associate by a series of ridiculous events.  Tina is the sheriff’s right hand in a magic town in the desert, wearing trousers and shooting a charmed gun because it’s the wild west of course some wizards use charmed guns in the wild west.  Graves is the Sheriff.  Queenie owns the saloon.   The Salemers have a prefab church on wheels a couple of miles out of town where they try and stop prospectors and tell them that there are witches among them in that town right there. Credence sneaks away to be Graves’ dogsbody in exchange for sanctuary.  

This AU brought to you by listening to a playlist made entirely of country songs where women kill their abusers. 

[1ltreede]

The guns of the civil war, sharpshooters and why Goody is an utter badass.

It’s been a while since I’ve dropped some history here. I wanted to talk about something near and dear to my heart. Weapons. Specifically guns. So as per usual, this post will have mentions of the Confederacy, the Civil War, and all that junk. So if any of this bothers you, stop reading now.

So… let’s talk brass tacks, or in this case, guns. 

This is the Enfield rifle. In the early Civil War, this was the favored rifle of the Confederate Sharpshooter.  The 39 in (99 cm) barrel had three grooves, with a 1:78 rifling twist, and was fastened to the stock with three metal bands, so that the rifle was often called a “three band” model. The Confederates imported more Enfields during the course of the war than any other small arm, buying from private contractors and gun runners. It has been estimated that over 900,000 P53 Enfields were imported to America and saw service in every major engagement from the Battle of Shiloh (April, 1862) and the Siege of Vicksburg (May 1863), to the final battles of 1865

This is a video of the Whitworth..45 caliber rifle, an English design from the mid-1850s. Forty-nine inches in overall length, it fired a six-sided grooved bullet through a 33-inch barrel having a hexagonal bore with a rapid twist that gave phenomenal steadiness to the bullet’s flight. This is the preferred musket/rifle of the Confederate Sharpshooter.  With an open sight and firing from a fixed rest or the prone position, the shooter could place his shots in a twelve-inch diameter circle at 500 yards. With the 14 ½ “ telescopic sight mounted on the left of the stock, the rifle had a killing range of 1500-1800 yards, or about a mile. Even in the heat of battle they could fire individually and more carefully than the ordinary soldier with a Springfield rifle, they were equipped with hand-held mechanical range finders that estimated distance, and thus trajectory, based upon the target’s apparent height. 

The Whitworth was fired with a percussion cap. Its disadvantage was that it was a muzzle-loader, hence slow to load, and like all muzzle-loaders, needed cleaning every few rounds. What this means is that after every single shot, Goody would have had to reload and after the very first shot, the flash of the rifle and the poof of smoke would let god and everyone know where he was hiding. This will become important later.

Now, imagine shooting the above gun at a target nearly a mile away though a haze of black powder smoke, all while shell fragments are flying around you because the enemy wants nothing more than to kill you.  After all, as a sharpshooter, you’re as much a psychological weapon as a tactical one. Your job was target enemy officers and artillery batteries as well as color bares (because the enemy would rally around the flag and it’s an easy target). They were also the only shooters allowed to fire on their own without orders. 

Now imagine you are on the other side of that bullet. You just saw your buddy fall from a shooter so far away that all you see is the smoke. Artillery and other sharpshooters would target that. So now the shooter is getting hammered with canon fire and can’t move from position because he still has to keep shooting.

Which brings us to poor poor Goodnight Ribicheaux. 

Goody would have been out there alone. All his friends, all his bothers in arms would be in their neat little lines while he was in some tree somewhere or behind some rock. He has no one to look out for him. No one to protect him. It’s just him and his rifle. He shoots. Now, everyone knows where he is. He’s a sitting duck. He now has to load. It’ll take anywhere from a minute to five minutes to reload each time. More when he has to clean it, once the residue builds up. During this time, he’s being constantly bombarded with bullets and shells. He’s got to keep himself alive all while keep himself focused on the next shot. This man got twenty-three confirmed kills at Antietam. 23 doesn’t seem like a large number these days, but back then, that’s an insane number. And with how many other battles he must have fought, 23 is just the tip of a very large mountain. When Faraday calls in a legend, it’s because he is. Because there are very very few men who could do that.

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This needs more notes, people. 

[my-film-world]

The Good, the Bad, the Weird  (2008)

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An idea I briefly entertained last summer. I say briefly - I made over one hundred frames (=30s) by hand before I wisely stopped. Do enjoy the music.

True Detective X A Fistful of Dollars (titles)

Sometimes I don’t know where This dirty road is taking me Sometimes I don’t even know the reason why

Reading Alex Cox’s take on the characters in the Spaghetti Westerns (the dubious good, the obvious bad and the multifaceted ugly), I started thinking that it kinda fits TD as well. Then I rewatched A Fistful of Dollars…

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Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez

(The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

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Manco looking at Mortimer like WHOA HOT

“This is not a man to arrest, this is a man to... befriend” (c)Mag7