Tactility and Transcendence in Red Dead Redemption 2
879Arthur Morgan can sense it. The Wild West, the age of gunslingers and cowboys, is approaching the end of the line. What can we do to hold onto a time, a place and a feeling?
A video essay on Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 - includes minor spoilers for story, character and themes.
0:00 Prologue
0:43 Intro
3:27 Themes of Westerns, Hollywood & John Ford
7:56 The Ultimate Cowboy Simulator
10:10 Horseriding & Shooting
12:15 Arthur's most treasured possession
13:47 How The West was Lost
16:19 Transcendence
18:12 Strangers
20:18 Epilogue
Movies included in this video (all of which I'd recommend):
Unforgiven (1992)
The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Directed by John Ford (1971)
Stagecoach (1939)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
The Searchers (1956)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962)
Night on Earth (1991)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Clerks (1994)
The biography I cited in the video was Searching for John Ford (2002), Joseph McBride. Well worth a read if you're interested in the genesis of Hollywood, Westerns and the life of the enigmatic Grandad of cinema.
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