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Westerns out of time and place

Started by Toadmaster, January 13, 2018, 02:39:33 PM

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Keysh

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January 30, 2018, 07:07:43 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1022483a) That sounds AWESOME!

b) Welcome to theRPGsite!!

a) As Omega pointed out, there's a (single) sixgun in Yojimbo. There's also the example of the English-language Japanese film Sukiyaki Western Django, which is a weird mash-up of traditional samurai mythos (Tale of the Heike) and a Western, with some Shakespeare references and a (terrible!) cameo by Quentin Tarentino thrown in for good measure. More sixguns (and Gatling guns) than katanas, though there are definitely some of the latter. Google for the trailer if you haven't seen it...

b) Thanks!

The Black Ferret

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January 30, 2018, 09:09:46 PM
The movie The Wild Bunch takes place in 1913 and deals with aging outlaws trying to find their place in a world where cowboys are a dying breed. Much of it takes place in Mexico.

Krimson

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January 30, 2018, 11:08:24 PM
Quote from: Keysh;1022707There's also the example of the English-language Japanese film Sukiyaki Western Django, which is a weird mash-up of traditional samurai mythos (Tale of the Heike) and a Western, with some Shakespeare references and a (terrible!) cameo by Quentin Tarentino thrown in for good measure. More sixguns (and Gatling guns) than katanas, though there are definitely some of the latter. Google for the trailer if you haven't seen it...

Why have I not heard of this until now? I need to watch this. Soon.
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February 01, 2018, 01:16:40 AM
Quote from: Keysh;1022231Some historians have drawn analogies between the northern and westward expansion of China in the 17th and 18th Centuries and the westward expansion of the US. In both cases, a powerful, urbanized and organized state expanding into areas dominated by nomadic or semi-nomadic peoples of very different ethnicities, sometimes to the point of wiping out the latter.

You can also find (journalistic) articles talking about present-day western China (e.g., Xinjiang) being a "wild west", with Han Chinese flooding in to exploit minerals and clamping down on restless natives, e.g.:

http://theweek.com/articles/703698/chinas-wild-west

Oh hell yes. Actually, Chinese history had several 'wild wests' (not always in the west, obviously).
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