The heroes usually take the spotlight in Western movies, but they’ve been overshadowed by the villains in some of the genre’s greatest entries. When it was first pioneered in the early days of film, the Western genre presented filmmakers with a framework to explore clear-cut stories of good versus evil. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the genre became a lot more complex as directors like Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Corbucci brought a rougher, bloodier vision of the Old West to the screen, featuring morally ambiguous antiheroes. In these movies, the heroes have villainous qualities, blurring the line between the two.

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