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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

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