Critics were " wowed " by the film at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, according to Peter Bradshaw of " The Guardian ", who termed the film a " stir-fry horse opera [ and an ] uproarious high-camp cowboy drama ."
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Autry's early recordings merged the western style with country music, then known as hillbilly, while his movies set the standard for the horse opera, with its white-hatted singing cowboy, heroic horse and bumbling sidekick, a format later taken up by Roy Rogers and others.
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Gershe was born in Manhattan and got his start writing for musicals, including " Alive and Kicking, " a revue, in 1948; " Horse Opera, " a spoof of Westerns, in the same year; and " Wedding Day, " produced by Clinton Wilder, in 1951.
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These elements may not make " The Claim " any less authentic than a Hollywood horse opera, but they lend it a meditative, distanced sadness that is closer in spirit to Robert Altman's bleakly romantic " McCabe and Miller " than to any traditional western.
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In fact, some fans and critics have noted that the plots of space operas have sometimes been taken from horse operas and simply translated into an outer space environment, as famously parodied on the back cover of the first issue of " Galaxy Science Fiction ".
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Exploring a spiritual sub-terrain that few other westerns have touched, " Dead Man " borrows puns from " The Odyssey " of Homer, wealthy villains and hired goons from the Depression era's Saturday-matinee horse operas, and a dislocated soul from the English poet William Blake ( 1757-1827 ).
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Critics, first in France and then in the United States, discovered that those taken-for-granted society comedies, horse operas, crime stories and tear-jerkers were works of art after all, and a newly refined ( if at times also snooty ) film culture took root in American cities and college towns.
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He's racked up an impressive list of film credits : Earlier this year, he did a cameo as Buffalo Bill in the horse opera " Hidalgo . " He got to polish his Southern accent as the sheriff in " The Gift, " co-starring Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and Katie Holmes.
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I wouldn't say the explanation is definitive, but something to keep in mind is that western movies were often called " horse operas ", i . e . basically the same joke, humorously dubbing those works with a high-falutin'connotation . ?! carrots?! 01 : 46, 8 March 2010 ( UTC)
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Soap operas, horse operas, and Wagner's kind, lyric operas . . . elements of all were on display as dust swirled and gusted across the earthen battleground of the French Open, and Graf stormed through the crimson haze, 6-7 ( 2-7 ), 6-3, 6-4, to yet another height that had seemed beyond her in her supposedly declining days.
