As part of Vexercises exercise 6 I chose to reframe the movie Tampopo as a Western using Ennio Morricone's iconic theme song from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Some of the common Western tropes include:
The mysterious stranger riding into town - Goro His trusty steed - Goro’s truck Beautiful woman with a troubled past - Tampopo, a widow with a failing restaurant A villain - Pisken, who harasses Tampopo about closing her restaurant The gunfight - in this case a fistfight in the street Riding off into the sunset
Ramen Cowboy - Tampopo
The mysterious stranger riding into town - Goro
His trusty steed - Goro’s truck
Beautiful woman with a troubled past - Tampopo, a widow with a failing restaurant
A villain - Pisken, who harasses Tampopo about closing her restaurant
The gunfight - in this case a fistfight in the street
Riding off into the sunset
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