It was a way to differentiate between classic American Westerns and this new Modern Western (Fridlund, 2006, p.4). ... This may be the most notable difference with modern Westerns is that new directors with no attachments to classic Westerns were starting to toy with history. ... Aging outlaws whose manner of supporting themselves (bank/train robbery) is becoming too difficult; the world they know is dying, and they seem hell bent on dying with it. ... They were the great evil that stood in the way of the white man's progress in creating a habitable world. ... The tone of modern Westerns ...

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