Are there no more heroes in Hollywood?
"There’s no way of telling, because there haven’t been any real movie heroes for a generation. This fact has been disguised from us partly because of the popularity of the superhero but also because Hollywood has continued to make war movies and Westerns, the biggest generators of movie heroism, that are superficially similar to those of the past but different in ways that are undetectable to their mostly young audiences, who have no memory of anything else. In an otherwise excellent article in Vanity Fair about “chick-flicks,” James Wolcott recently wrote that, like the chick-flick, 'the Western is also a genre that’s often pronounced dead and buried only to be dug up again and propped against the barn door—witness 2007’s ‘3:10 to Yuma,’ ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,’ and ‘No Country for Old Men.’'"
James Bowman on the dearth of heroes in movies.
Thanks, Arts and Letters Daily.
WYATT
Morgan, are you crazy? They’re out gunning for us! What the Hell’re you doin'?
MORGAN
What’s it look like? They want a piece of me they can come and get it. I'm not crawlin’ into my hole.
WYATT
Morg, use your head.
MORGAN
I am usin’ it, Wyatt. Been wonderin’ how the hell we got in this tangle. You know they hit Clum’s house, too? Shot up his wife. His wife! Who ever heard of that? Men sneakin’ around in the dark, back-shootin’, scarin’ women? They’re bugs, Wyatt. You know all your smart talk about live and let live? Ain’t no live and let live with bugs.
DAVID
We got bugs now like Doc and the Earp brothers couldn't imagine.
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