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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fimmtiu" data-source="post: 1696827" data-attributes="member: 7953">I'm from a more recent generation, and I can still remember that I thought Westerns were cool growing up. The point at which they lost their appeal was when I started learning the actual history behind the mythology, which is rather cruel and frightening. Once you open up that can of worms, the whole "Western" genre begins to feel less like an adventure setting and more of a cultural rationalization. sort of a deliberate whitewashing of our country's atrocious behaviour. There's a million great ideas and motifs which can be borrowed from it wholesale (e.g., Firefly), but as a historical setting it just leaves me kind of depressed now.Ahh, cultural guilt. Maybe I'd be happier if I'd just read less and watched more TV...(Interesting but useless trivia: Yes, Fistful of Dollars is a direct ripoff of Yojimbo. But Yojimbo itself is based on a Japanese novel, which itself was based on a translation of a Dashiell Hammet novel, "Red Harvest". It's amazing how much abuse a story can take over the years and still be recognizable from its original source material.)</blockquote>