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Still 'Search'ing for an Accurate List of the Greatest Westerns

7 July 2008 12:08 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I am almost in complete agreement with Anne Thompson, the Deputy Editor of Variety.com, who railed a recent list put together by the Western Writers of America. Her headline: "Westerns Top 100 List Sucks: Shane Number One"

That about says it all. Shane is by no means the best Western ever made. But this list has a much more populist bent than a truly artistic one and that's fine, unless you're trying to be accurate. See, the problem is, you just can't defend Shane as the best Western of all time.

It borders on the illogical to not have The Searchers as the number one Western, because in addition to being an exceedingly well-made film, it for the first time blurred the line between right and wrong, meaning most of the good Westerns that preceded it had failed to account for the moral ambiguity of living life by the gun

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