LOWCW 2023 || My tag answers

Yep! It's high time for me to post my answers to our party tag for this year. So let us to it, pronto.

Stetson --  a favorite hero moment (i.e. highlighting their character and/or making a pivotal decision etc)

This boardwalk moment... Ringo unabashedly pursuing his bride. Words are failing me on this scene, so if you want more you'd better pop over to the bottom of my full review for Stagecoach here. I stand behind everything I wrote then and you can see why it's my top favorite classic western of all time.

Petticoat -- a favorite heroine moment

This was actually one of the hardest to nail down, but I finally decided to just stick a pin in it and say the first scene where they meet Sue in Open Range (reviewed here). From almost the first moment we see her she exudes womanliness -- forthrightness, sturdiness, and clear-sighted realism, yet all with undiminished kindness and grace. And, over time, found tried and true as steel.

Canteen -- a favorite scene with a leader/mentor

Literally any scene between these two in The Tin Star.

 

Gloves -- a favorite sidekick/friend scene

Don't have a pic of the exact shootout scene from Shadow on the Mesa I have in mind, but it features these two, who over the course of the film have gone from strangers to comrades to blood brothers.

Canyon -- a favorite western landscape

Well there's this.

And I have been known to cry driving up through Yellowstone's Lamar Valley. ;)

Oh. But yeah, if we're being purists about anything film related, then the Longmire cabin and surroundings.

Open Range is also pretty stunning.

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Pistol -- a favorite fight scene

The final shootout in The Fastest Gun Alive

 

Saddle -- a favorite horse / animal in a western

Clarice xD (Apple Dumpling Gang)

 

Sky -- a favorite ambitious / crazy plan in a western

This foursome walking down the road and into legend (Tombstone)

 

Rifle -- a favorite scene with an antagonist  

The whole dousing-the-lights-and-facing-down-the-Bad-Guys-while-straddling-a-chair-with-an-unloaded-gun scene is always thrilling in Angel and the Badman.

 

Chuckwagon -- a favorite meal scene 

Ok, besides the tea discussion in Open Range (which is undeniably cute), I just keep thinking of different scenes with men scraping beans off tin plates, so... for an actual communal meal with all sorts of underground messages flying round, I have to default to Stagecoach again. (I know, I know, but it really does have everything.) 

Or quite honestly, if I'm in a sentimental, autumnal mood, any of a number of scenes in Love Comes Softly.

Badge -- a favorite scene with peace officers / sheriff

Apple Dumplings aside, I do always enjoy the twisteroo with the marshal at the end of either version of Angel and the Badman. (Full review with appropriate highlights and caveats for this newer one hopefully coming at a later date.)

EDIT: had to come back and adjust this one because I finally remembered where the scene came from that had been niggling at the back of my mind: where Sheriff Holden is going on in Love Begins about how his grandfather could creep up and catch a jackrabbit by the ears. It's always humorous, how he pops round, irritating our hero while being very deadpan about it all. But since LB is basically a very Hallmark 2.0 of Angel and the Badman, that would actually all kinda fit with my original answer. ;D

Lariat -- a favorite cattle drive/roundup 

Open Range tops the list

I also loved the growing backbone and camaraderie development in City Slickers (note: though I've only seen it once so can't entirely vouch for every plot detail ;)) 

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(Just signing off with this pic to add some general cuteness to your feed.)

 

So there ye have it! I'd love to hear your thoughts and if we enjoy any particular scenes in common!