As Django, Jamie Foxx isn't just a dead-eyed western hero: He's a proud antebellum Avenger, battling a parade of racist archetypes alongside a scenery-gnashing Christoph Waltz. Tarantino snags the name and the title song from Corbucci's Django-and features a cameo from original-Django, Franco Nero-but Unchained funnels the explosive majesty of Italian Westerns into the explosive history of American racial politics. With Django Unchained, the filmmaker let his spaghetti-Western fetish run amok, delivering a full-blown homage to the ultraviolent, political, and crazed cowboy cinema of Sergio Corbucci. But Quentin Tarantino dreams of a different, wilder West. The Western's decline as a popular genre coincided with its rise as a prestige genre. Elevating all this out of the dust and gunsmoke is Val Kilmer's combustive (and consumptive) performance as Doc Holliday-gunslinger, poet, and bon vivant-who pierces his foes with one-liners before filling them with lead. Their "Cowboys" gang wears red sashes in the clearest nod to contemporary gang colors, which leads the lawmen to venture outside the boundaries of their profession to bring the chaos to an end. Unfortunately, fortune has created a robust criminal class in town, led by Johnny Ringo ( Michael Biehn) and the Clanton brothers. That brings him and his brothers ( Bill Paxton and Sam Elliott) to this scorched Arizona mining town with the ominous name. Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp just wants to retire somewhere quiet after a lifetime of often brutal law enforcement taming the badlands of the American frontier. It was created in the aftermath of Unforgiven, but owes a lot to that other Clint Eastwood classic: Dirty Harry (which itself was a Western played against the backdrop of modern San Francisco). Tombstone is a modern cop saga projected against the backdrop of the lawless Old West. In 2015, EW ranked the 25 best Westerns since Dances With Wolves was released. Recent years have seen the Western continue to flourish on screen, with filmmakers from Alejandro González Iñárritu to Quentin Tarantino putting their own stamp on the genre. Since then, all sorts of filmmakers have splashed drama and morality plays on the wide-open canvas of the Western, though the genre has had its ups and downs. It scored at the box office and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for a vindicated Kevin Costner. 9, 1990, Dances With Wolves opened in theaters and revitalized a classic genre. But then, just like that, the sun seemed to set on the Western.
You had to ride to be a star, and Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, even Elvis Presley had their turns in the saddle. On the big screen, it wasn't just John Wayne and Henry Fonda doing the shooting. In 1959, there were 26 primetime "oaters," as they were called, on TV-including eight of the 10 most-watched shows. For decades, the Western was king, beginning with The Great Train Robbery in 1903.
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