The film, The Good The Bad and the ugly is typical of it's Western Genre by different categories of conventions, one of them being the iconography. Things such as the setting, barren land or a desert, the clothes they are wearing e.g. stetsons and buckskins, and the music, All of these are connotations that establish the Western genre. Another category is narrative. The character roles such as the hero killing the villain is also a convention of western films. This also fits in with Propp's theory of character roles.
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