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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9701844" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, that's certainly one reasonable example of revisionism.  However, you can also question the history with more accurate history, or question the mythology by exaggerating aspects of the mythology to bring them into focus and ask questions like, "Why should a killer be made a mythical hero?"  My biggest problem with Revisionism when it comes to Westerns is that there is often a lack of self-awareness in the genre where the people making the movies don't realize that the movies that they are using as a reference were themselves revisionist and asking the same sort of questions.  "Shane", "High Noon", "The Searchers", "The Man who Shot Liberty Valance", "True Grit", and "The Shootist" are all already Revisionist movies that would in many ways be shocking to the audience of the 1930s.  When the audience you are producing a revisionist piece for is no longer in touch with either the history or the mythology, and indeed their only points of reference are themselves revisionist, then it gets to be comparing one revisionist narrative to another with nothing left (for me) but shock value.That said, I did like both versions of "True Grit".</blockquote>