Classical Western Hero vs. Super Western Hero
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The Classical Western Hero: Cowboys
Cowboy/Heroes another convention of the Western genre. The cowboy has been a significant element to the Western Genre, you can not have, make or call a movie a western if it does not not have a cowboy figure in it. Like any super hero movie we must have a villain, it is necessary to have a hero. We all accept this fact and do not even think about it when watching a super hero movie it is common sense. This very concept lead Western audience's to accept cowboy figures as heroes. However, the result of this was to that a villain had to be identified and categorized for future Westerns. This role was assigned to Native Americans or a secondary race other than Whites. The White Cowboy was portrayed as a heroes and either Native Americans or Mexicans in occasion were visualized as the "bad guys." It would be very difficult to name a Western Movie that does not portray a white cowboy figure as a hero that is if we are talking about a classical Western movie. Chances are that if it is a Super Western a completely new set of rules apply to identify a Super Western hero.
The Super Western Hero
Why the Batman Logo? Well we all know that Batman does not really have any super powers, he just has a lot of money that he uses for good. Batman in a sense is the Super Western Hero he is a super hero but with out the natural given powers. Something along the same lines occurs with a super western hero. The super western hero, a hero that by some of his actions does not actually fit the title of a hero. Basically what I mean by this is that in cases the "super western hero" does not preform any particular heroic action in the sense that he is saving a person. Its actually the complete opposite. If we recall the character in Blood Meridian (The Judge, Glanton, and the Kid and every other member ) were not actually preforming any heroic action on the contrary they were actually killing Apaches and Comanches. To begin with this does not sound as a hero at all, it sounds more like a murder/villain who gets paid for killing. how ironic is this, it is like if someone robbed a bank and afterward was given they key to the city.....Exactly the two do not make sense. Life lesson here. Before we judge anything we must identify the causes why they are doing what they are doing. Just as the saying states "never judge a book by its cover." In the super western we should never judge a character by their actions. There are cases that may justify why they are preforming such a dead. Super Western heroes preform jobs and server people on a moral basis of a recompension or for a particular reason that benefits them in one way or another. Just as the crew in Blood Meridian they would kill Apaches and Comanches for money, paid by the Scalp Industry. (More of the Scalp Industry can be read at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/scalpin/oldfolks.html). Therefore based on this fact we can say that even though the men were killing all the Apaches and Comanches they were heroes under the established circumstances.
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