Billy the Kid Got a New Mythology in 2021’s Best Western
When you think of a film genre that tends to put a new spin on real-life events, Westerns are usually at the very bottom of that list. Generally speaking, period piece dramas are usually the go-to category for this type of storytelling revisionism (see 1984’s Amadeus or 1995’s Braveheart for examples of this), but big screen productions involving the Wild West, sheriffs, and cowboys usually leaned into fact as this was more exciting than fiction.