Western Facts

 1. Look at the target audience for the film and how each film attracted their target audience; The typical western tends to be quite adult oriented with many western films featuring intense violence, bad language and scenes that are too adult for children to watch. How ever in recent times the western genre has broadened into child films with many featuring typical western setting and scenes but in a child like fantasy, such films would be Rango and  The long Ranger.

2. What type of company distributes your chosen films? United artists and wines tine companies are some of the only film companies that distribute westerns, most famously at the very least.

3. How have social groups been represented in these films and how does this relate to the target audience? The majority of westerns include and mostly American, latin american and Native american cast. In traditional westerns the Mexican and Native American cast are cast in a negative light. This is mainly due to the racist ideals of the pre 1970s people, with many westerns being produced at this time. The typical western tends to relate to the people of the mid west and indeed the entire west, often painting the struggles the mid west had at the turn of the 20th century.

4. What are audience expectations for these films? The audience tends to expect violence from a western movie, a adventure tale of of a lone ranger making it against the odds. They expect a mid west setting with a varied range of characters and tropes. Mainly the lawlessness of the mid west that was a typical stereotype at the time.