How western do you think the show would have been?
POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Thursday, November 29, 2007 01:08
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I have several old westerns that would have made inspirations for FireFly or even Serenity II
True Grit and Rooster Cogburn. I think that the whole bounty hunter thing would work well with Firefly. You could play it were it was a really bad guy that should go to jail or the misunderstood criminal sort.
Rio Lobo, the drunk Sheriif calls in his friends when he hits bottom to clean up a town gone bad while he was lost in the bottle grieving over a lost love.
The Shootist The last gunfight for an aging gun fighter. Mal could indentify with him and be broken hearted when he dies and perhaps gains insight into his life.
Yeah, I like John Wayne ;-)
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I liked the above listed films, and also Nevada Smith, and Bite The Bullet.
But Brisco rules Chrisisall
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I thought of a couple more while at work.
McLintock, flying in the ransom for someone that is really a rescue attempt because the kidnapper was a really bad guy (Maybe Mischa?)
I really liked "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" but it would be a stretch to put the crew in that scenario.
Why do I like John Wayne so much? My dad was 6'4" and looked very much like him. When I was 5, I asked my mom if those movies we were watching were about dad. I was heartbroken to find out that it wasn't so ;-)
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I have to admit to not being a Westerns fan. In fact I like them just a notch above musicals! Which aint much.
However that said. There are some great FILMS out there that are westerns and those I love.
1. The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
2 The Bravados
3. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.
How to relate them to Firefly; well in the case of The Good The Bad and The Ugly, you could have had a similar plot motif to, in search of treasure, reportedly on some outer rim planet that sees two other craft aswell as SERENITY and its crew go in search of. In the process all three crews (one of whom should be a rouge Alliance craft) must at some stage deal with each other in order to reach said treasure until such stage develops, where there is an almighty shoot-out. It shouldn't be treaure though. Maybe something like a pardon for previous misdemeanours, that carry's weight for Mal and Serenity.
In terms of the Bravados. That's a little bit tricky, as it was mostly a one man effort but again you could always make it a rival crew thing.
Butch and Sundance. Well just a good old fashioned hunt across the universe, although SERENITY did this to a certain extent, but this time it's not just the Alliance after our crew but just about every other pirate and bounty hunter in the 'verse going after Serenity and cornering them in some god foresaken part of a solar system, hey maybe even Earth that was! This would have to be the final ever episode of Firefly as it would need to leave us with that enigmatic ending.
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I wasn't overly keen on Westerns before being a bit too young but Firefly realy got me into it, don't have enough time to watch all I'd like too but your list are really helpful!!
How come things never go smooth
'My feet are warm, two pairs of socks warm.' Claire Bennet
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The 1950's - 1960's was the "golden age" of Westerns on TV. I don't know them all, but some are :
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
Big Valley
Death Valley Days
Rawhide
Lancer
High Chapparel
Wagon Train
Lone Ranger
Rin Tin Tin
The Rifleman
Branded
Broken Arrow
The best of these shows usually involved bad folk hurting good folk......then the good folk fight back and win over the bad folk. Throw in a family and friends..and voila...you've got some great shows. Just re-hashing the decades of episodes of Bonanza & Gunsmoke alone would provide Joss with thousands of plot ideas to build on and re-make into Firefly episodes.
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This one popped into my head as I was driving home from work.
Sean Connery made a science fiction film call "Outland" that is based on "High Noon" with Gary Cooper. So this crossover has some history to it. I'm sure others have done similar crossovers. As I said several Westerns are based on Japanese stories. So the theme gets passed on from one genre to another.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler
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