25-01-2015, 10:11 PM
It's worse than that. In the John Wayne era of Hollywood, the good guys never shot people in the back or head from ambush (especially not civilians). That was something only cowards and the worst villains did.
I'm a big fan of Richard Boone in the TV series Have Gun Will Travel, which operated on a totally different moral and ethical level than anything we see today. Paladin was a poet and philosopher as well as a hired gun, guided by his own strong moral code. Native Americans and foreigners were portrayed in a positive light. He was always helping people in trouble, and was never sadistic. Same could be said of shows like Gunsmoke and Bonanza. But today we have shows like Game of Thrones, which appeal to all the worst elements of human nature, and give us no positive and sympathetic role models.
I'm a big fan of Richard Boone in the TV series Have Gun Will Travel, which operated on a totally different moral and ethical level than anything we see today. Paladin was a poet and philosopher as well as a hired gun, guided by his own strong moral code. Native Americans and foreigners were portrayed in a positive light. He was always helping people in trouble, and was never sadistic. Same could be said of shows like Gunsmoke and Bonanza. But today we have shows like Game of Thrones, which appeal to all the worst elements of human nature, and give us no positive and sympathetic role models.