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In Fallout, the Western is Remade, Again | The Backdrop (Patreon)

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2024-04-23 15:03:12
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2024-05

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A new episode of The Backdrop is now available!

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In Fallout, the Western is Remade, Again | The Backdrop

This week on The Backdrop, Darren is talking all about Fallout. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SecondWindGroup Second Wind Merch Store: https://sharkrobot.com/collections/second-wind

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KingDead42

I love the re-writing of the old west in the in-show movie, where Cooper's sheriff shots the villain, calling him a "communist", an ideology that didn't even exist in the time period being portrayed.

Joseph

I disagree with the assertion that the 50s were an essentially individualist decade. It's precisely the opposite: the 50s are probably this country's most conformist decade. I think that's one of the reasons that the western and the myth of the cowboy resonated so strongly in that decade; it was a backlash against that conformity (and against an increasingly sterile, suburban life).

Darren Mooney
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I mean, I think that you can market individualism in such a way that encourages conformity. Even today, a lot of people who position themselves as "free-thinkers" are adhering to a fairly standardised ideology with a conforming set of ideas. All of those fifties westerns might have been rugged odes to individuality, but a lot of those 50-odd westerns pumped out each and every year were functionally indistinguishable from one another. It's more the rejection of the idea of a shared communal society, which suburbia ties into. The whole point of suburbia is that you buy your own house with your own garden, separated from your neighbour by your own white picket fence. Sure, it's the same as everybody else - "I'm an individual, just like everybody else" - but it's a rejection of the shared communal spaces of the city, the houses built into one another, the apartments built atop one another, the blending and shifting of identities and cultures across time and space. You put a swingset in the backyard, so the kids don't share a playground. You get a car so you don't have to use public transport like trains or buses, or because you bought a house unconnected to train or bus lines. Later, you might install a hot tub or swimming pool so you don't have to share those spaces either.

Snakeinthegarden

This was a terrific video Darren. Finally finished the show and thoroughly enjoyed your thoughtful essay full of side bars and bad jokes. Great job on the edit too, look forward to finishing shogun to watch that one next :)