I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker credits John Carpenter for adapting a western genre into an urban setting to create the modern cop movie.
- In plain terms
- Carpenter turned a western into a city story, which started the cop film genre.
- What can you take from it?
- Adapting genres can create new categories.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do genres evolve?
- What makes an adaptation successful?
Another view
It oversimplifies the origins of a complex genre.
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