Western Short

Okay there are a couple 3D westerns out there after all. One of them is surprisingly like the 'John Hu Samurai Cowboy' pitch, but thats for you guys to decide. Its name is "Los Gringos" the the architectural style and setting is much what I had envisioned for this western idea, although it can be pushed a few different ways. There is even a 3D spaghetti western parady (it was pretty good, although a lot of its pizazz is in the credits).





I've been kicking around a few other scenarios that seemed to help push some of the ideas of the old west:
1- A young man waits in the upstairs of a saloon. The room is somewhat humming and vibrates from the noise and drunken debauchery below as muffled piano music and loud crude yells of laughter fill the upstairs hotel suite. He stares into his pocket watch which not only is giving him the time, but reveals the tin-type of his wife. He envisions his wife sitting by the fire knitting. The room is calm and harm from the fire with a cooking pot brewing. Back to the man in the saloon, the hum from below breaks the calm of the flashback. Two people, a man and a woman, clatter laughingly as they can be heard coming towards the room. The young man nervously moves to the corner of the room positioning himself. The door breaks open with an rough older looking man shocked to see who is in the room. The call girl gives off a scream and runs back down the hall. The young man raises his gun just as another flashback cuts in. The wife is in the room knitting and door breaks open to cabin and the rough looking man enters. She gives a horrified scream. Flash foreword- the young man pauses and then painfully pulls the trigger. The point of view is now from the call girl, nervously looking from the stairwell. The young man slowly walks out of the room and down the stairs with an unsatisfied look on his face. As he passes the call girl he drops a pouch of money on the floor next to her. The music and laughter downstairs is still loud- masking the violence that occured above.

This is obviously a subtle revenge piece that is intended to tribute the calm frontier of the west against the not yet civilized wild, and in some cases, lawless saloon crowd that ran rampant during this period of time.

The next piece isn't nearly as worked out as the first.
2- A law officer is forced to uphold the law when a mob comes to the sheriffs quarters one evening. They want to lynch this ruthless killer confined the back jail room. The sheriff has to struggle between the law of the land and the law of the wild west- which can be very conflicting perceptions. Before mob arrives his relationship with the prisoner is shown to be negative. The prisoner is a snake that deserves to die, but somehow is only imprisoned do to court complications. The underlying theme is: 'what is true justice'. After some research, mobs typically overthrew prisoners to preform lynchings under their own code of regulation.