re: Why Did The Western Die as a Genre?

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I've read that as difficult as it is to sell a western in the US, it's even harder overseas

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And yet you could argue that was BY FAR the most popular genre for American films overseas up to 30 years ago...and certainly the entire 20th century.

How many times has anybody met a foreigner and the first thing they say when you mention you are American..."something Cowboy this or Cowboy that." John Wayne, etc.

But yeah...America is known as the Cowboy. The West. Seriously by itself defines America to a foreign audience. You got some New York in there...but it really was the Western states that people identify America with in the movies.

And if the international market keeps hating America, by proxy they will hate the American Western - because that's what we are identified with.