obsolescence of the gunslinger

His final spaghetti westerns, particularly 'Once Upon a Time in the West' and 'Once Upon a Time in America,' elegize the gunslinger as a figure inevitably erased by modernity and civilization.

His directorial work, especially 'Unforgiven' and 'The Gauntlet,' systematically deconstructs the gunslinger myth and portrays violence as costly and obsolete in the modern age.