Thomas Butt is a senior writer at Collider who focuses on classic movies.
It's become trendy to interpret films as "secret Westerns," even though they are explicitly not Westerns. Analyzing films through the prism of Western tropes and themes is ironic, considering that the genre appears dormant.
Christopher Nolan’s Practical Approach To Filmmaking Complements the Western Genre Based on box office trends and the general audience climate, it seems that viewers are weary of the status quo at a mainstream level, whether it's exhaustive franchising or an overreliance on CGI-riddled spectacle. A solid Western, a genre representative of old-school movie magic and entertainment, would be the perfect antidote.
Western Themes in 'Oppenheimer' and All Christopher Nolan Protagonists Close To find the blueprint for a Nolan Western, look no further than Oppenheimer, particularly in the Manhattan Project section. The makeshift town in New Mexico is a spitting image of a typical Western community, so much so that when Oppenheimer rides into Los Alamos, his wife, Kitty , remarks that all their temporary residence needs is a saloon to tie everything together.
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