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The [Western] genre allows viewers to abandon the stifling bourgeois living room for the open prairie, and ends with the ride into the sunset instead of the disappointing conclusion (death or matrimony) of a bourgeois comedy of manners, deflating all attempts at heroism by miring the characters in everyday mediocrity. The Western is never everyday. It is a heroic fantasy genre that everyday bourgeois existence needs