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OUR BASS & BELLE PANELISTS WILL ADDRESS WEST STUDI'S RECENT STATEMENT ON HIS VIEW OF THE WESTERN GENRE.
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Oscar-winning Cherokee actor Wes Studi calls the Western genre U.S. mythology" built around genocide.
It makes heroes out of absolute villains," he says.
"Over the years, what's happened is, I think people, and especially Indian people, and other minorities that have
been affected by the way that the United States of America was built, we began to put pressure on the storytellers of the
world, in that, 'Hey, what about us? Did you uh, did you ever stop to think that no, we didn't disappear. You didn't kill
all of us. And we are still here, we have developed, and we have been a large part of your development?'
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I think we need to start telling stories in a way that is real. Enough of these fairytales. Enough of this making heroes out
of people that weren't actual heroes. Let's talk about the fact that our present and our future depends on a better recognition
of our past.
And I think that some filmmakers, some studios, caught the gist of that and began to move in a direction that is hopefully
more true to what our population is.
Again: We need to start telling stories in a way that is real. Enough of these fairytales.
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