If you’re going to watch a movie that takes place in Wyoming chances are you’re going to watch a western or something close to a western since Wyoming has a lot of nice, open country that lends itself to filming in a way that many places do. The scenic and the rustic aspects are hard to miss and tend to give a movie a different feel than the concrete jungles of the city or the laid back feel of small towns. When all is said movies that are shot in Wyoming (or other areas of open land and mountains) tend to be more about the happenings outdoors than anything, which makes for an interesting film.
There’s something about wide open country that’s just appealing to people.
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The life of a criminal must be hard to give up once one becomes used to it since both Butch and Sundance can’t seem to make an honest living work for them. Plus there’s the problem of the law that’s still tailing them wherever they go and the incessant need they have to keep out of jail. Moving from one country to the next doesn’t seem to work either when their lawless tendencies get the best of them.
4. Flicka
It takes a lot for some men to see what needs to happen even when it’s right there in front of their face. Rob has a daughter that wants to run the family ranch, and a son that wants to go to college. What does he do? He forces the son to learn about the ranch and the daughter to go to college. Once Katy, his daughter, shows him just how much dedication she possesses however he begins to finally come around.
3. Shane
The story of a lone gunman making his way into a town set upon by a villainous official is nothing new, but Shane made this formula something great when the titular character made it his business to take care of Ryker and his men. The townsfolk had been trying to fight back for a while, but obviously force was the only thing that Ryker and his men understood, and Shane gave it to them. Pale Rider kind of mirrors this story if you look at it closely.
2. Brokeback Mountain
Passion finds people in the oddest places it seems, but once it’s burned out it tends to leave behind a great deal of hurt and yearning that never really goes away. Unfortunately for Jack and Ennis the kind of yearning they gave themselves over to was viewed as anything but pleasant or even acceptable by the people in their lives, and was enough to mark them for a good long time after.
1. Unforgiven
Sometimes it doesn’t matter how far you run from the past, it will come back to find you in one way or another. When two former gunslingers are called upon to take up their weapons and strike out against a corrupt lawman and his posse, that past comes back with a vengeance that neither of them shy from.
Wyoming definitely has its charms.
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