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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Awesome movie. But I have the same problem with it as I do with "There Will Be Blood".
Characters like Plainview (nod, nod, wink, wink), and Little Bill simply wouldn't have survived in the old west. Someone would have simply shot them in the back for being such dicks.
Same could be said for Holliday, but he was a bad mother****er who was insanely lethal with a gun. And also kinda charming in a weird way.
Splitting hairs here. All insanely GREAT movies.
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I respect that they don't mesh with your perception of the wild west, but you should consider whether or not your perception is just shaped by Holywood western cliches and maybe, just
maybe those movies are better for shaking those cliches.