Talk:How the West Was Won (film)

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This was, absolutely, one of the best westerns, I have ever seen. I seen this film, in the theater, when it came out. I was 7 years old, in one of the old curved wide screen theaters with the curtains that would pull back as the movie began. At that age the movie seemed to last forever and it went on for close to 3 hours and I did not want it to end. I cried thru some parts and laughed thru others. It had a big impression on me and I will never forget it. Mark R.

[edit] Grotesque

In light of the rampant environmental destruction brought on by the petroleum-automobile industrial complex--sprawling overdeveloped suburbia, instant blight, hideous, depopulated city centers, smog, road deaths, and so on--not to mention the addiction to oil that lies at the root of the world's current destabilization, the ending of this film borders on the obscene. We see the camera pull back from the Wild West to downtown L.A. freeways (undoubtedly shot on a Sunday so as to appear carefree and uncongested) in a moment of ludicrious American triumphalism. I can't imagine how anyone who has battled ever-lengthening traffic and burned up countless gallons of gas just commuting to and from a pointless job in an office cubicle could bear to watch it.

[edit] Inaccurate Title

The very title of this movie "How the West Was Won," is somewhat cruel, if not embarassing. The title of this well made American western epic does not reflect the sad truth that much of the western frontere was "taken" from the indiginous aboriginal populations which originally inhabited most of the West. To the film's credit, there is at least one scene where this fact is briefly alluded to during the western expansion of the railroad prior to the great stampede of the Buffalo into the railroad camp by an angry group of indians. A more accurate title for this epic could have been "How the West Was Taken." This Cinerama extravaganza does an excellent job of depicting the great die off of many early pioneers who are literally buried along each few miles of the westward pioneer trails.

Mark J. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.156.215.49 (talk) 10:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC).

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Talk:How the West Was Won (film)

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