Making something of your final days in the west. Westerns where life outside the film has implication on the movie itself. John Wayne had cancer, but did 1890 have cancer? The large star of The Shootist fights for his role. Could The Shootist exist without John Wayne? Other self-referential fiction. Ron Howard has been around for a long time. Bone Tomahawk is the greatest fucking thing. Westerns for horror movie fans. Ultra violent westerns. Fuck you, foreshadowing. Foreshadowing as a crutch and foreshowing as a red herring.
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The Shootist
Released: August 20, 1976
Runtime: 100 min | IMDB | Wikipedia
Director: Don Siegel
Writer: Glendon Swarthout, Miles Hood Swarthout, Scott Hale
Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
Bone Tomahawk
Released: February 19, 2016
Runtime: 132 min | IMDB | Wikipedia
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Writer: S. Craig Zahler
Starring: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox
Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
