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Missouri. Det eneste som gjensto var et<br />
bankran. Han inviterte med seg<br />
brødrene Charles og Robert Ford til å<br />
rane banken. Uheldigvis for Jesse James<br />
hadde ikke brødrene tenkt å delta i<br />
ranet, men heller heve en dusør på<br />
10.000 dollar som var utlovet for den<br />
som fi kk has på James - død eller levende.<br />
Jesse James ble en legende og fi kk<br />
heltestatus etter sin død. Robert Ford<br />
ble sett på som en feiging og forræder.<br />
Andrew Dominik fra New Zealand har<br />
regissert fi lmen basert på en bok av<br />
Ron Hansen fra 1983.<br />
Flere westernfi lmer er også kjømda:<br />
Ed Harris skal regissere og spille en av<br />
hovedrollene i westerndramaet «Appaloosa».<br />
Han får selskap av blant andre<br />
Renée Zellweger og Viggo Mortensen.<br />
«Appaloosa» tar oss med til det lovløse<br />
ville vesten på 1800-tallet. Handlingen<br />
følger to venner som ankommer byen<br />
Appaloosa, som styres av en skruppel-<br />
Westerns as fi lm genre have been popular<br />
throughout fi lm history and have<br />
seen glory days several times; last in the<br />
1960s and 70s with for instance Sergio<br />
Leone’s spaghetti westerns. Th e most<br />
famous, and in the opinion of many, the<br />
best of them all, ”Th e Good, the Bad and<br />
the Ugly” and ”Once Upon a time in the<br />
West” with Ennio Morricone’s music,<br />
have remained standing as classics.<br />
Usually, the plot of western fi lms<br />
takes place in the second half of the<br />
18th century in the western part of<br />
30 NAVIGARE 4 - 2007<br />
MICHAEL CLAYTON. Tom Wilkenson og George Clooney i en intens thriller.<br />
FOTO: WARNER BROS. PICTURES<br />
løs rancheier. Men alt forandrer seg når<br />
en vakker enke entrer scenen.<br />
Også svenske Lasse Hallström vil<br />
prøve seg på westernsjangeren med fi l-<br />
USA, Canada or Mexico, and often at<br />
”the frontier” – on the outskirts of civilization.<br />
Here, the settlers battle the<br />
wilderness as well as the indians, or<br />
take the law into their own hands in<br />
the absence of stable law enforcement<br />
authorities. Th e fi lm makers’ love for<br />
this genre is attributed to the classic<br />
western fi lm’s peculiar ability to describe<br />
moral and ethical confl icts in a<br />
concentrated and naked way.<br />
During the 1980s, the western genre<br />
was as good as dead, until suddenly<br />
men ”Boones Lick”. Handlingen spinner<br />
rundt en sterk kvinne som tar med<br />
seg familien ut på en reise med Wyoming<br />
som mål. Julianne Moore skal<br />
The wild west<br />
– almost like it used to be Trine Carin Tynes,<br />
rådgiver <strong>Sjøfartsdirektoratet</strong>,<br />
advisor, the Norwegian Maritime Directorate<br />
Th is time, the fi lm service off ers both classic western fi lms and<br />
somewhat more modern interpretations of the genre.<br />
Kevin Costner’s ”Dances with Wolves”<br />
appeared, harvested seven Academy<br />
Awards and caused people to queue up<br />
outside cinemas all over the country.<br />
Despite the fi lm’s mega success – it did<br />
not send the genre into new glory days.<br />
Now, however, it seems that western<br />
fi lms are riding again! You may look<br />
forward to two westerns coming soon.<br />
”3:10 to Yuma” is a new production<br />
based on a western classic from 1957.<br />
Th e notorious Ben Wade (Russel<br />
Crowe) and his ruthless gang of thieves