Western films are the most original American genre films. The old group of western film directors represented by Ford once pushed this genre film to a climax in the first half of the 20th century. However, as mentioned in "Toy Story", with the advent of the space age, the popularity of the West quickly declined. Sergio Leone, perhaps one of the most important directors of the 20th century, once had a very insightful understanding of Western films: "In a sense, you watched an American Western film It's equivalent to watching all of them. They make people drowsy because they are always repetitive. The action and violence of the film are pre-set routines, and the characters are always nonsense." There were hundreds of westerns. Almost all are summed up by this sentence, and just like the very popular special effects blockbusters, slowly, they will only be eliminated by history, and only a few classics have survived. Leone’s "The Red Dead Trilogy" sparked a new round of western film craze, and in "Once Upon a Time in the West", this series of films was pushed to the pinnacle. It was not until "Dancing with Wolves" many years later that it was barely comparable.
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