Taylor Sheridan - Defining The Neo-Western
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2025
- The last video essay of 2017 is a look at the work of writer Taylor Sheridan. He has written Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River and this analysis of all three films looks at their place within the Neo Western subgenre. We explore some of the themes and ideas of the genre and what it says about society as a whole.
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Taylor Sheridan on Wind River- • DP/30: Wind River, Tay...
Taylor Sheridan on Hell or High Water- • 'Hell or High Water' S...
David Peoples on Unforgiven- • On Story: 105 Western
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Taylor Sheridan is one of the best writers working today. Wind River caught me off guard, Hell and High Water was a pleasant surprise of last year, and Sicario is one of my favorite movies of all time. Definitely looking forward for his future work.
He is a great screenwriter and a great director. Sicario, Hell or High Water, Wind River, Yellowstone, the movies and shows he's involved in are all great.
This Chanel is so under-rated. Easily should have 5 million subs
Thanks Justin!
I just found your channel. You deserve many more subscribers, man! I love your content, keep doing what you're doing! One of the best movie analysis channels on TH-cam!
Fargo really felt like a neo western. Particularly the scene where the Gerharts come for Ed and find the sheriff guarding the house. That standoff was so intense
Congratulations on a heck of a year, Jack! Your work is always wonderful, can’t wait to see what 2018 holds. All the best.
Thank you! I'm glad you've been enjoying!
I absolutely love your work! I’m so glad that you touched upon the Neo-Western. Happy New Year!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed! Happy New Year!
This has easily become one of my favorite channels to date. I love the neo-western genre and am planning my next short to be a neo-western. This dissection was absolutely fantastic and captured the similarities and ideologies that tie the genre together. Well done.
Thoughtful commentaries on profound movies by an excellent writer and speaker. I feel blessed! ;-)
Wind River is my all time favorite in Sheridan’s portfolio…. Such a powerful movie…..
Every Frame A Painting is no more.... but you're filling their shoes pretty good so far. Here's to 2018!
You're too kind!
Why is every frame a painting no more?
Every Frame A Painting hasn't made a video in over a year, so it's safe to assume he's either lost interest in the channel, or ran out of things he wants to talk about, at least for the meantime.
This is my favourite channel of 2017 xD
Now this is the new cinema
Awesome way to close 2017, a (well deserved) great year for you channel! Wonderful analysis as always! Can't wait to find out what 2018 will bring! Thank you for all the deep insight and inspiration!
Thank you! I have a good feeling 2018 is going to be a great year!
I can’t wait to see what Sheridan does next give in 5-10 years and I think he’ll be one of the best directors of the generation
I cant wait for Sicario's sequel. Awesome video Jack
Ended the year with my favourite videos of the year. Keep it going it’s awesome!
this is one of your best ever. You are a real artist in every way. Thank you!
i see this film as a masterpiece
I've only watched three of your videos and I'm hooked,
Great content man!
Was happy to see you mentioned Fargo, I thought I was the only one who saw elements of the Neo Western in the show! Especially the idea of characters making their own rules, which is a prevalent theme throughout the show.I'd love to see a video on Fargo (the show), especially considering how great your essay of the movie was.It's been a great for your channel and I can't wait to see what you come out with next year!
Putting in a request for 3 Billboards, Happy New Year. Thanks for the great reviews.
Beautifully written. Thanks.
I love sheridan’s films all fantastic
I just gave Hell or High Water a 2nd viewing over the New Years weekend. The final scene with the former ranger menacing the former bank robber resonated. The ex ranger contends that 4 deaths are on the hands of the surviving bank robber even though he didnt actually kill anyone. I began to think how the ranger was driven to go after the bank robbers that eventually lead to 2 deaths. Most of the characters we are shown did not find it urgent to apprehend the bank robbers; fellow cops, citizens and even some bank workers overlooked the robberys. The former ranger never sees his own actions leading to tragedy. All the time corporations, the rich and military organizations (like law enforcement) break laws like murder and justify it to themselves and the world. I would have to watch the movie closer again if they do also portray the law officer as morally ambiguish. I mean its hard not to identify with characters played by Jeff Bridges.
On a related note i also watched a movie by Paul Haggis this weekend called In the Valley Of Elah. It came out the same year as No Country For Old Men and also is set in Texas with a crusading Tommy Lee Jones. The film is worth you seeing and considering as a part of expanded analysis of Neo-Western, or Neo-Noir. I like how the movie captures a current event (the US invasion in Iraq) made in the style that would attract pro-war audiences but has a strong commentary about war culture and how young men are made into monsters.
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Honestly wish I had the talent to make this video. I’ve been wanting to talk about these 3 films and Taylor Sheridan for so long now. Thank you for doing it for me and most likely 1,000 better than I ever could. Amazing video !
Thank you, but don't be so hard on yourself, it's practice. I've made what 93 of these? Best way to talk about these movies is just to talk about them!
Great video love your work would like to see individual disections of Hell or High Water and Wind River as well. Keep up the good work. Here’s to 2018
Truly visionary analysis Jack !
Much appreciated Rajeev!
I love your work! Hell or High Water is my best movie of 2016. makes you feel out of wood.
Such a great film gives you strange feeling ,great cinematography believable characters and wonderful score by nick caves and warren ellis
No Country for Old Men, Let Him Go, Mean Dreams, Wind River, and Hell or High Water are my favorite Neo-Westerns
The only one of these movies I’ve seen is Hell or High Water and it was amazing. I’m definitely gonna see the others.
I couldn't agree more with MrSquifler, Sheridan is easily one of my favorite writers now. I just stumbled upon a trailer for "Yellowstone", and thought immediately "that's gotta be Sheridan." I was right and can't wait to see another quality written, superbly directed, great acted movie. He seems to get the best of the best actors for his movies. Why wouldn't they be drawn to excellent an script.
Keep 'em coming Taylor, you have a HUGE standing ovation audience.
Hell or High Water was my favorite of 2017 (in Mexico we only can watch some movies a few months after the official release date) Taylor Sheridan is a new role model for me. Hopefully neowestern will receive more attention, I really love the characteristics of this subgenre. Great analysis as usual.
Happy New Year Jack , I wish you get more subscribers in 2018.
Your vids are always so interesting and teach me things I didn't even realise. Thank you
Jack, as always, I love your work and I`m glad to see that your channel is growing this way. You are a true inspiration for a lot of people who wants to create this type of content, including myself. Cheers and happy new year!
I did not know all those movies shared a writing/directorial link! Makes so much sense. All hard to watch yet so engrossing, something you’d recommend to any film lover but don’t want to see again.
58k!
Taylor Sheridan is my fave writer and now new director. Wind River was my film of 2017.
Dammit I liked all three of these films a lot. I'm looking forward to seeing more from Sheridan
Very articulate. I love Taylor’s frontier trilogy.
Wind River was so good.
good filmmaker
Hi Jack! Your New Year's Resolution should be to advertise & market your channel more! Happy New Year Jack ! -from Delhi, India :-)
Awesome video, think I'll subscribe. I'm actually making a Neo-Western for my Honours thesis, so this was a nice resource. Cheers
Thanks for covering my favorite movie genre. Kindly make videos on 'dystopian sci-fi', 'dark comedies', 'psychological thrillers' etc. Also one of my fav movies In Bruges. Great work, keep it up. Wish you good luck and happy new year.
Thank you!
Thanks for making this great video. Taylor Sheridan is my man crush.
Love your work mate.
What song is playing in the background?
I just watched Wind River and I thought it was a good film. Now I'm looking forward to Sicario 2.
The video I didn't know I needed , thank you .
Would love to see your take on Synecdoche, New York and other Kaufman movies.
Thank you for this video.
Thank you for watching!
very very good vid subject. neo western has produced some incredible film recently. well done for mentioning true detective there aswell
Loved the video, love Taylor Sheridan's work. Wind River destroyed me emotionally. Cautiously optimistic about Sicario 2. Minor nitpick, you pronounced Fausto's name as "Fusta", heh.
+A Shogun Named Juan - yeah, (South American) Spanish is sometimes tricky to pronounce. In Spain (the parts where they speak standard Castilian aka Spanish), (as you of course know), they would pronounce him as: "Fauh-to" (no "s"). And nearby in Portugal, the same name is pronounced "Faush-too".
Well I just know this, because I happen to live in Portugal and know a few people from Spain (one even from Barcelona, where they speak Catalan, not Castilian - very different).
But yeah, a closer pronunciation in English would be Fausto, but as you said: minor nitpick.
truefilm Good points, I was thinking South American spanish (specifically Mexico because of the character) but yeah, pronunciation is a tricky thing and there's not a right way necessarily.
I'm curious, what are your thoughts on Sicario 2?
A Shogun Named Juan - well I wasn't "defending" anyone. You were right to begin with. Just wanted to point out that it can be tricky.
Sicario 2: just watched the trailers. It can be anything from a great sequel to a personal story - or a violent "shoot 'em all!" run of the mill badass follow up. Anyway: anything with Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin in it: I am already excited.
that Wind River soundtrack
"contemporary world"
a much more soothing term than listening to "modern setting" for the billionth time by a two bit essayer
btw , anyone looking for western montage th-cam.com/video/i2QGCcrPnNk/w-d-xo.html here
includes some later westerns like Unforgiven and Neo westerns too , and of course classics like Stagecoach , short but sweet
Just one request. I know it's hard when you're constantly showing clips from all of the movies in random order, but I would've liked to know what movies I was seeing shots from. If it's not too much of a burden, I'd love it if you could include a title from the movie in the lower corner of the screen for clips and shots. Great video nonetheless. Thanks.
Love your stuff. However every time you post something I haven’t seen I’m forced to go watch it first. Not sure that’s a bad thing.
I don't think it's a bad thing-I usually try to cover the best movies out there!
Love me some Neo-Westerns! Based on what you say defines a one, would you say Logan could be considered one as well?
I think so, it definitely is influenced by a lot of Westerns and has a lot of interesting ideas about the changing of times.
do you think realism can be a potential for Neo-Western? I know that "realism" is the last thing that people can be profitable in the Western genre, but there are plenty of amazing but untold real life stories, as well as real social problems, about the contemporary American West. Maybe that can be a frontier for the future Western movies.
so is it safe to class sicario as a neo western or a western at all..? because most just refer to it as a thriller or action film
I would say it is
Do a video on Blade Runner 2049
Yes
Jack's Movie Reviews Nice
So why is Yellowstone so, so, so… sooooooooo bad. He had a chance to do something great and made a soap opera.
Are there also spoilers for Wind River and/or Unforgiven in the video? If so, then I'd rather watch it once I've seen Wind River, it didn't come out here yet. :/
Same... I added this video to my watch later list so I'll watch it once I've seen Wind River. :)
There are. And major ones. Do come back to this video later, after having watched the movies.
Yes, proceed with caution
Ok thanks for the responses :)
How do you study movies? Do you pick a theme at first then go through the books written on it?
Who remembers Taylor Sheridan from Sons of Anarchy playing David Hale?
Are you excited for Sicario: Soldado? Sheridan is writing it and that's really the only reason why I'm giving it a chance, because otherwise it seems like a cash grab.
Also, I don't know if you've examined the Revenant, but that seems like something worth your time. Also the new film Hostiles (hasn't come out yet but hopefully it'll be good).
Thanks again and have a great new year!
With him writing, I am, but that's the only reason.
I talked about The Revenant a while ago-truth be told, it wasn't a very good video in terms of editing, but if you listen to it, there's some good content in the writing.
Hey Jack, what’s the name of the backing track in this vid?
Ross Goodman - try watching the video 'til the end ...
Antagonista oh yep haha. Missed the credits.
I would really like to see a video on The Last Jedi.
Maybe-no immediate plans but a possibility in the future.
Cool. Also I just left a comment on your Die Hard video.
Breaking Bad is a neo western too right?
In a lot of ways yes.
Jack's Movie Reviews aye you actually answer me. Thank you man keep up the good work man.
Any Yellowstone fans?
Heheh "Fusta". It's "Fausto", Jack. No worries. I watch Sicario way too often.
I consider myself to be an above average English speaker, the second you have me say ANYTHING in an accent or another language-I'm a lost cause!
Jack's Movie Reviews understandable lol!
Been wondering, what about a video on 2001 space Odyssey, how bout' it.
I definitely will be covering a lot of Kubrick in the new year. The only trouble with 2001 is that it is such an epic movie that has so much written about it. I obviously want to be original, but still write something meaningful about it.
Jack's Movie Reviews thats fine take all the time you need it's an ambitious piece of filmmaking that's been discussed for decade's so just do what you can.
Jack's Movie Reviews I look forward to your Kubrick reviews.
Fuck I wish you hadn't spoiled Wind River. An alert or something would've been appreciated.
If only I had one at 16 seconds into the video...
Jack's Movie Reviews Oh shit sorry. I usually listen to commentary videos in a second tab while I work, so I didn't get the text Spoiler alert.
It's your voice.
Tremendous film writing of today's standards
Love your art, keep it up! Merry Christmas and a Happy Mohamed :) Allah al akbar
Fargo, Blood Simple?
Caitin Pendley - well I think most of the Coen Brothers' work is much closer to neo noir than neo western. The difference being that fate vs. choice, greed and things going south are the main themes. Fargo (the feature film) is, when stripped down, about a greedy loser with a bad "plan" to get him a better life, - he had it coming. That's a variation of classic noir (like most Coen Brothers' movies, who "got" what noir was/is really about, then add a TON of irony and dark humor).
Yellowstone is taking this genre to the very next level.
"That is crazy yall aint even Mexicans"
Does anyone else think neo westerns are better than westerns?
I really really love Hell or High Water and I superadore Sicario (easily the best movie of 2015). Wind River was a tad underwhelming but ... it's a directorial debut. He'll get a critical pass on that one.
I can tell you right now the truck convoy is no bullshit stuff like that actually happens. Think how the church shooter was stopped.
And I doubt the convoy in hell or high water would have ran
Hell or high water had the worst anti gun scene of all time
"Lack of rurals"
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Great videos but I think you should change the channel name before you grow more, "Jacks movie reviews" isn't memorable or special as a name
Nice video on the gerne, very well put together too. I think you make a lot of problematic claims about for instance new country for old men as a certain starting point or later on in the video human nature. From a scholarly perspective you should put your claims into perspective with more care. You will find no such absolute claims in relevant writings on the gerne (Slotkin, Wright among many, many others) or in the field of literary/film critcism. Don't want to be a party pooper, hope my words are received in the spirit in which they are intended. Have fun researching!
Man the video is great but is full of spoilers...
That's why I put a spoiler warning 15 seconds into the video.
why cant you say rules lol?
Dude, Wind River...
It really is an emotional kick to the gut.
Except for THE LONE RANGER from '03 I find I don't like new Westerns.
FAUSTO
His tv series are good, but after a while the tropes get repetitive and boring
Wind River sucked.