MY FIRST WESTERN FILM! FIRST TIME WATCHING Open Range Movie Reaction

Have you watched any Australian “country/western” movies ? The Man From Snowy River or Quigley Down Under for example ?

Open Range and Tombstone are my favorites Western movies. Good reactions Dillon, I recommend you to watch Tombstone (1993).

If you haven't seen them there are 2 westerns that will make you laugh AND cry. One is Silverado starring a much younger Kevin Costner, Danny Glover and Kevin Kline. The other is The Cowboys starring John Wayne.

One excellent western not mentioned in the comments is "Unforgiven" starring and directed by Clint Eastwood with Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman.

The man you recognised as Percy from Green Mile is Michael Jeter. He died shortly after making this movie but made it known how proud he was of this film. He is also great in the Robin Williams film, The Fisher King……but it will WRECK you.

You, being Australian, would love the movie The Man From Snowy River. It takes place in the Victorian High Country near Mansfield, Victoria, and is beautifully done!

The US Federal laws permitted the grazing of cattle on unclaimed or federally owned lands. There was a dispute, though. Most ranchers believed that meant all the lands around their spread were theirs for the grazing. But some drovers, cowboys, who spent their time mainly driving herds from pasture to pasture, or across country to market, realized that they could buy cattle and simply drive them slowly across open lands, birthing and fattening along the way to market. That way simple drovers could save money to eventually build a homestead, maybe with their own home range. But ranchers had more influence, and open range free grazers were seen as taking advantage of a loophole, as were shepherds who often drove their flocks constantly across country. Eventually local jurisdictions started putting up barbed wire fences to cordon off local free ranging areas. But the fences also served to carve up all the open country and spelled the end of the cowboy drifter, unable to ride the wilds.

The actor you thought was Percy in The Green Mile was actually Del, the one Percy let burn in the electric chair

If you haven’t seen them, then “Silverado” and “Dances with Wolves” are excellent Kevin Costner-westerns. You find Robert Duvall in the original “True Grit” movie with John Wayne and in The Godfather I & II

According to Robert Duvall, this is the middle of his three favorite Westerns; the first being Lonesome Dove, the last, Broken Trail. Three more you should add to your list.

You should watch John Wayne and Clint Eastwood old westerns. They’re pure gold. Love the reactions brother🤝

A cattle drive was a way of getting a herd of cattle (or horses) from one location to another. This is largely what cowboys were about. They kept the herd together as they transported them, kept them rounded-up. Ranchers raised cattle, and their animals grazed on their property. They resented the cowboys driving cattle which grazed on their land as they passed through. Hope that helps.

"The Shootist" - John Wayne's last film is very good. It's another sentimental western.

This movie was set in 1882, so Charley is suffering from PTSD from the Civil War, which ended in 1865. The Civil War in the US was between the Union/North, commanded by President Abraham Lincoln & General Ulysses Grant (who later became president in 1869-1877) and the Confederacy/South, and was mainly about slavery; the south wanted to keep slaves, the north wanted to abolish slavery.They had soldiers on both sides as young as 11yrs old and it was quite a violent war, with over 360,000 Union deaths, 250,000 Confederate deaths, and about 50,000 civilian deaths. The North ultimately won, despite being outnumbered when the Confederacy's General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Battle of Appomattox to Gen. Grant. That all being said, please watch and react to "Tombstone" (starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot and Bill Paxton)! It's based on true events, also set in the 1880's, but in Arizona, USA. The town of Tombstone still exists to this day with the majority of it's original buildings still standing, and hasn't evolved much since. It's my favorite western, I was there on the set in 1993, when I was 7yrs old and visiting Old Tucson (a western theme park where a lot of westerns were filmed, about an hour or so north of the actual town of Tombstone, AZ). It's considered one of the best westerns of all time and if you liked this one, you'll definitely like Tombstone too!

Fun fact, George Stevens who directed the classic Western Shane. He had the sound of gunfire enhanced above normal sound. Costner also used this technique in open range.

Open Range refers to land that is not owned by anyone, or is government owned and is therefor legally open to livestock grazing by all parties.

Best western for me is "Shane" with Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jack Palance and Jean Arthur. Don't expect any youngsters will know it. It is a classic.

This is in my top three westerns of all time. This The Outlaw Josey Wales and dances with wolves.

Interesting choice for your first western. Certainly not one of my favorites, and I really like Kevin Costner. It’s just a little too overly sentimental for my taste. Costner’s masterpiece, “Dances With Wolves” from 1990, is a classic, and shouldn’t be missed. There are, of course, the classic older westerns, but some of the better, modern westerns would be “Unforgiven”, starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman; “True Grit” (the 2010 version with Jeff Bridges); and one of my favorites, “3:10 To Yuma” from 2007, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale (not to be confused with an earlier 1957 film). All are excellent movies.

It's one of my favorite westerns. Dances with Wolves with Kevin Costner is a great movie.