Western Films

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly are typical of it's western genre through it's conventions such as it's visual symbols. Straight away you are aware of the genre of the film because of the characters and what they are wearing. The characters all wear typical 'cowboy' outfits, with Hats, boots, etc, this connotes that they are in fact cowboys. Characters in a western are also well known to have facial hair, mustaches in particular, which all characters in this scene had. Guns are also shown in this scene, each character has one, which connotes a stand off which is a typical western convention. The location also tells us the film is a western, as the scene is set in the desert, which is a typical location for westerns to be placed.
In terms of the narrative there is always a hero, the one who wins the stand off and kills the enemy and triumphs and rides off on his horse, in this film, that character is Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood is a very iconic character of America and is often associated with the Western film genre.
Age is represented on this scene, all the men in this stand off Western scene are all middle aged, and they are all shown as very dominant and powerful, as during the stand off technical codes are used like close ups of there faces, and their faces show determination and power.