My Favorite Western Themes

This isn't really apropos to anything in particular; it's just, I don't know, nostalgia for cowboy cinema, so, without any preening pretentions, here're my favorite western themes:

'Il retorno di Ringo' (The Return of Ringo)

This song actually was the inspiration for a climatic last episode of a gangland saga I was drafting years and years ago.* The line that addicted me to this song was,

 "I have looked in the faces of my old friends..."; because the story was about brotherhood and honor in humanity, or, in other words, honor above the law.**

'My Name is Trinity'

I based an entire character's personality around Trinity (one of my best ever); enamored with the iconic bad ass that, in the breadth of a second, can oscillate from the absurd to the lethal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YLkHyhm1I

I combined that with the panache, nihilism, self-abuse and ride-or-die loyalty of Tombstone's Doc Holiday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-kDlUnj5lg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXJWwzCSB8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnLtuVaW_9M

'Navajo Joe'

'Django' from the original classic

'His Name was King' (We wuz kangs!)

Before the Tarantino movie, I loved this theme because it was so Shaft-like in its swaggering, pistol-pulling bravado.

Last but never least, my all-time favorite Western theme--from the classic that did the impossible, surpassing the original--is the Bon Jovi classic that kneecaps 'Dead or Alive', 'Blaze of Glory':

* In the vain attempt to avoid thematic felattio, I'll forebear any summarizing of the story in question; it's an uncut diamond that, when first conceived of, lacked a more seasoned story teller to give it the angles and fine polish it demanded. It's on the back burner, for now, but I'm hoping to revisit it when I have more experience to do its themes justice.

I decided a long time ago, 'I need to grow up before I write this.', because I wanted to take the genre-hopping rubber-legged antics, contemplative poetry and gangland gusto of 'Cowboy Bebop', and carry that into a dystopian setting inspired by 'Blade Runner', 'Bioshock' and 'Metropolis'; but the world building would feature a supernatural backbone heavily inspired by b-movies like 'Children of the Damned' and comics like 'Sandman' and 'Sandman: Dream Hunters'.

(I had a lot of big ideas and not nearly enough experience in plot structure to pull off a fraction of them!)

**A huge inspiration for the story's season one climax was 'The Wild Bunch'.