Analysis Of The Poem Django Unchained - 1313 Words

assuage guilt as it is well-documented that westward expansion could not have occurred without the displacement of Native Americans and the exploitation of slaves, later-freed slaves, and immigrants of varying origins. As such, modern westerns have chosen this aspect as a point of subversions with examples such as Blazing Saddles (1974), Django Unchained (2012), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). Blazing Saddles serves as a merging of the Ranch and Marshal narratives and is ostensibly meant to shed light on the absurdity of racism but also manages to provide a scathing critique of a common archetype of the Classical Western: the Rancher. â€Å"These are people of the land,† says Gene Wilder’s Waco Kid. â€Å"The common clay of the New West. You know†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦show more content†¦2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 3. He must always tell the truth. 4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. 5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. 6. He must help people in distress. 7. He must be a good worker. 8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits. 9. He must respect women, parents, and his nation s laws. 10. The Cowboy is a patriot. The parallels to these other moral codes are apparent in its’ call to kindness, honorable action, and behavior worthy of role model. And like all other practitioners of warrior codes, the cowboys routinely flouted these rules. Just as knights and samurai engaged in wanton acts of cruelty and Anakin Skywalker violated the Jedi mandate against attachment, historical cowboys would violate every one of these rules. In fact, there is no historical precedent for a Cowboy Code existing; such a thing was purely a product of East Coast imaginations and dramatizations of the untamed West. And it is important to note that most Western fiction operates with this core logic with one example being previously cited in this volume: the narrative of Jesse James and his death at the hands of Bob Ford. Autry-logic shames Bob Ford for violating the First Commandment while labeling James as a victim, despite the fact that he was an outlaw (this labeling is allowed