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Craving badass cowboy movies but updated? The JV editorial team brings you today a selection of 8 movies and series in the Western genre, enough to whet your appetite for epic journeys in the Great Wild West.
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- Django Unchained
- Border
- godless
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- The mission
- The harder they fall
- The power of the dog
- The revenant
Django Unchained
What better way to start this selection than with a modern western classic? Django Unchained, directed by the famed Quentin Tarantino, features a cast that could only be extravagant. Jamie Foxx plays the determined Django, a slave whose goal is to find his wife Broomhilda after their separation during the slave trade. He then meets a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), who offers him freedom in exchange for capturing the Brittle brothers. Django Unchained, released in 2013, is a film punctuated by sharp pen changes and the violence emanating from the characters’ intersecting stories.
Border
We cross the North American border and make our way to the wide and cold, cold and wide lands of Canada. series Border
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godless
We remain on the American continent but are heading for the New Mexico region. Frank Griffin, played by Jeff Daniels, sets out in 1880 in search of his great rival and ex-partner Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell). Unfortunately, his enemy is found in La Belle, a town run exclusively by women after the tragic death of all men in a mine accident. godless is a 7-episode miniseries that rivals the biggest films in its genre. She even won 3 awards including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Released on Netflix in 2017, the series appropriates Westerb’s codes by emphasizing not only men but women as well.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen brothers’ films are expected by moviegoers, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was no exception to the rule when it was released in 2018. The series moves easily from burlesque to melancholy, oscillating perfectly between genres and tones, dedicating to each “part” a different story, all more pleasant to discover.
The mission
In the 1870s, former Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a public reporter, criss-crossed cities and countryside to bring the latest news to the populace. During one of his performances, he meets Johanna (Helena Zengel), a 10-year-old child who was once captured by the Kiowa tribe and raised for several years. Jefferson Kyle Kidd then sets himself the goal of driving her to his family. The missionreleased in 2020 and directed by Paul Greengrass, brings an authentic Tom Hanks to the fore at the heart of an equally authentic Western.
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The harder they fall
Although most Westerns boil down to a quest for revenge and a series of deadly confrontations between European immigrants, cinema very often forgets the presence of African Americans in the history of the United States, and particularly the Great West. Jeymes Samuel shakes up the western world by offering a predominantly African-American cast. We find outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) confronting Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), a gang leader who escaped from prison. Released in October 2021, The harder they fall
The power of the dog
Following the success of Bright Star, The Piano Lesson director Jane Campion offers us her personal vision of the Western in November 2021 The power of the dog. Benedict Cumberbatch, the famous Doctor Strange from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), dons the hat of Phil Burbank, a cowboy who runs the largest ranch in the Montana Valley with his brother George (Jesse Plemons). While the latter secretly marries a young widow named Rose (Kirsten Dunst), Phil sees a greedy woman there, attracted only by money. He then makes the difficult decision to break them up, particularly with his son (Peter Koti Smit-McPhee).
The revenant
We started this selection with a film starring Dicaprio. How about ending it the same way? The American actor finds himself in 1823 in the heart of a hostile and savage America. During a hunt, trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo Dicaprio) is attacked by a brown bear and left to die by his teammates. He has to walk tens of kilometers in very cold weather and is seriously injured hoping to be able to return to his wife and son. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and released in 2016, The revenant is based on the Oscar-winning performance of Leonardo Dicaprio, driven by a desire to survive and seek revenge.
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