Westerns to watch after playing Red Dead Redemption 2

While I was playing Red Dead Redemption 2, a handful of Westerners come to mind. Many of these films are probably explicit influences, but others are simply evocative or evocative.

For me at least.

After each round of Red Dead Redemption 2, my list of movies that I want to see again and again is getting longer and longer. Until now, it is …

(Note that even though some of the trailers are dated, the movies themselves deserve, in my opinion, to be viewed or viewed again.)

The good the bad and the ugly

This film continues to improve with age.

A handful of dollars

A handful of dollars not only lifted the plot of Yojimbo but like Kurosawa's film, completely reinvented a genre.

Johnny Guitar

With Sam Fuller's Forty Guns, Johnny Guitar is one of the most unusual westerns of the 1950s. Before becoming a director, Nicholas Ray briefly studied with Frank Lloyd Wright. During his career, Ray has often used environments, especially architecture, to reflect the characters. Likewise, Rockstar characters and stories often reflect or contrast their surroundings.

One-eyed

Marlon Brando made a movie in his life and my boy, did he ever direct a movie. This is a wonderfully strange westerner. Is it good? Well is bloated and complacent, but also fascinating, bewitching and beautiful.

Once upon a time in the West

When it was originally released, critics hated it and the image collapsed. Henry Fonda was reluctant to take the role, but that is perhaps the best performance of his career. Woody Strode and Charles Bronson are also at the top of the film that brought Sergio Leone back to the western genre. This could be my favorite Leone Western. Thematically, it's the closest to the Red Dead Games.

The story of the film was designed by Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, and Charles Bronson accepted the role of Harmonica after the rejection of Clint Eastwood. Bronson had previously refused the role of The Man With No Name in A handful of dollars.

Rio Bravo

Howard Hawks has often shot movies about groups of people getting together to get something. Here, it's about defending a prison against outlaws. There is comedy, humanity and Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing. The film is so good that Howard Hawks did it again several years later. Eldorado (below) with Robert Mitchum in a state of intoxication, originally interpreted by Dean Martin, and a young James Caan as a new child, originally played by Ricky Nelson.

John Carpenter redone Rio Bravo in Assault on the speaker 13 in 1976, which was then redone in 2005 with Laurence Fishburne and Ethan Hawke.

Diligence

It may be blasphemous, as a Western enthusiast, but I have never been a big fan of John Ford. I have always preferred the John Wayne of Western Hawks Westerns.

I like the interviews of Ford with Peter Bogdanovich!

Diligencefor a long time, I learned how much he had influenced The adventurers of the lost arch. Red DeadHumor and characters sometimes remind me of something from John Ford.

unforgiven

As Red Dead Redemption 2 Bucks current game trends, decades earlier, Unforgiven did the same thing for Gunslinger movies. I remember seeing the movie when it came out and I recently saw it again. In just over two hours, unforgiven destroys much of the western myth of Eastwood's early films that have spent decades building.

The wild bouquet

Make the Red Dead games need more to Leone? Or to Sam Peckinpah?

When the Strip of thugs it was created in 1969 and has received acclaim and boos. The director Sam Peckinpah was trying to surpass the violence of Depression Era gangster thread Bonnie and Clyde. He did. At a first screening, a client apparently became so sick that he vomited during the last shootout.

Sam Peckinpah's use of slow motion movies and different film speeds was revolutionary for his time. Violent and beautiful, The wild bouquet would later inspire a generation of American, European and Hong Kong filmmakers.

Winchester '73

Jimmy Stewart directed a series of westerns with filmmaker Anthony Mann in the 1950s. Stewart was looking to change his affable typographer, while Mann, who had previously directed detective film classics like Raw Deal, would bring his sensitivity to the film noir to the cowboy genre.

This is the first collaboration between Stewart and Mann. It focuses on the course of a Winchester rifle appreciated when changing hands, reminding me of how I acquired some of my pistols Red Dead Redemption 2. There is also an outlaw named Dutch!

Feel free to add westerns to watch below.