Re: [DL] Western Cliches

["Fantaphage" <zom-b@chipsnet.com>]

SPAGHETTI WESTERN CLICHÉS

-Upon arriving in town, people stare at the stranger from every window,
door, balcony and street corner.

-An undertaker is always lurking nearby.

-Gotta wear spurs!

-Bunches of hot peppers hanging somewhere.

-Just can't have a drink in peace.

-Piano player continues playing during the bar fight.

-Someone has to fall from a balcony and through a table.

-Informants that know all about someone, something, or someplace.

-Somebody's wife takes an interest in the hero.

-The street clears, window shades are drawn, and closed signs are put up
when a gun-fight is about to go down.

- Matches are lit from either a holster rig, or someone's face

-Shifty eyes.

-Fanning a number of toughs down.

-Good guys always get the hell stomped out of them before they take out all
the bad guys.

-Rides off alone, always leaving someone behind.

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Fantaphage

----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Gwyn <dgwyn@colba.net>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [DL] Western Cliches


Slimy bigshots in string ties.

Earnest settlers in covered wagons.

"Mongo"-types (i.e. big, dumb and stupid thugs who suddenly respect the hero
after being knocked out.  viz Blazing Saddles and Pale
Rider.)

Church congregations singing "We'll all gather at the river."

Sliding drinks along the bar

Mesas that look suspicously like they are in Monument Valley.

Nameless evil extras taking up positions on rooftops behind false fronts
with rifles.

Said nameless evil extras getting shot (usually with a pistol!) and falling
with outthrown hands.

          Daniel Gwyn
"No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
From "The Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers (1949-1983)
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De : Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : December 7, 2001 4:14 PM
Objet : Re: [DL] Western Cliches


>On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:21:56AM -0500, Yuri said:
>> Riding out into the Sunset
>> The Duel at High Noon
>> Stage Coach Robberies
>> Hangin' Judges (the mundane ones)
>> Poker Tournaments
>> Cattle Drives
>> Wagon Trails (do they still have them in Deadlands?)
>> Train Robberies
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> Cattle stampedes
>
> Ghost towns
>
> Wishkah (not a western cliche)
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