#the gunfighter is basically like: look at this legendary gunfighter everyone has heard abt for years

[pennyserenade]

gregory peck westerns are a thousand times better than other westerns because he had sense enough to know you could be a little cowboy and make commentary on the fallaciousness of toxic masculinity that so often plagued the men who loved them, too. i do think some of those men might’ve been too stupid to realize that’s what they were about but i appreciate the effort. i saw it gregory peck

#misc. #they’re so great #the gunfighter is basically like: look at this legendary gunfighter everyone has heard abt for years #he’s being killed by his desire for masculine approval! he can’t go anywhere and he’s miserable bc of it #his desire to be some kind of macho man literally ENDED him #and the big country is the exploration of toxic masculinity and classism #and gregory peck’s character is this man that shocks everyone bc he won’t bow down to these stupid masculine rules #and he won’t get into fights to prove anything #and he’ll let people belittle him #and no one can understand why. they think he’s just some stupid yankee but at the end he wins out #bc he was the only one secure enough in himself to not get killed #it’s so good