(gunshot) (rudy wurlizter) sam identified so much with billy that he didn't want him to die, you know great freak-out on the end about whether sam was going to let him live or not. he was getting pretty loaded and we were all trying to get him to stop drinking, get him to go get some sleep and he says, "i don't want to kill him." i said, "what are you talking about, sam?" "what if he lives, what if you don't shoot him?" "what if you don't -- what if we don't kill him?" i said, "you can't do that. i mean, the history's says --" he said, "history! we'll create a new myth." we know how much myth and nonsense was spun. and you can imagine what it's like after 100 years of spinning that kind of nonsense and having it be embellished and embellished and embellished by historians, legend-tellers and story-tellers. and pretty soon it's very hard to find out any center. (arthur penn) the most prominent level was the nature of the relationship between native american indian and the western. (alphonso ortiz) western films perpetuate the notion in american minds that the indian is the enemy. the i