Re: The Westerns

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Ezra, I did not overlook Lonesome Dove. Augustus McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call are right up there with the greatest Western iconic characters ever put on the screen, large or small. And the performance of Robert Duvall as Gus McCrae ranks with the best of John Wayne himself, while Tommy Lee Jones portrayal of Captain Call tops all but a handful of other performances in this genre.

But the reason Lonesome Dove does not make the list is because it is in fact a conscious summation and exemplification of all that the great Westerns had on offer. As great an achievement as it is, Lonesome Dove is not, ultimately, original in the sense the three movies I chose were.