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The End of Naked Spur and Far Country

There's this incredible conversion that happens at the end of each film where the guy is driven on by a certain desire and he finds that he gets to his object in some way. In naked spur the Jimmy Stewart character I think his name is Howard Beck Howard something and he buries the guy that who he could get a reward for him dead or alive because he's an outlaw. The Western as a genre got a more complex understanding like away from the Ford native antagonism it became allied with capital and the corporate.

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