(arthur penn) there's a major character who idealizes billy. i knew you weren't dead.gure of billy deviates from his expectation he eventually ends up betraying him. the situation got to be one of the earliest forms of it, of the media dictating the events. you're not like the books. you don't wear silver stuff. you don't stand up to glory. you're not him. (crying) you're not him. (john sturges) the appeal i think has to be answered with the word legend. they were legends of the west who did these outlandish things which if presented straight out of nowhere, it would not be accepted. but because this theoretically happened in the west, audiences were prepared to accept them as re people. (elmore leonard) that meeting in the street for that showdown must have been made up in hollywood. a typical gunfight out west was a man in a saloon with a shotgun or revolver and seeing who he wants at the bar and shooting at him. then the guy at the bar turns around and shoots at him and follows him out onto the street and shoots a couple of more times. and maybe eight shots are fire