Westerns
Some of the movie makers consider westerns as separate film genres, but there are also those who believe westerns to be the subgenre of action movies. It may be explained in the base of such common features between action movie and western as the same aim of the film, the same auditory and, actually, rather identical plots. Just like the plot of typical action movie the plot of typical western is developed around bad guys and good guys, bad guys want to harm the state or single taken person and good guys try to stir them. The difference between those to typical plots is that talking about western one may not forget that invariable feature of any western is hunting for gold. Characters of western also fought to each other but mostly not for sake of nation or those they care much but to win the race for treasures. Another peculiarity of westerns that differs them much from typical action picture is time and place of events marching. Events of westerns march at Wild West of America, the period of events usually XIX century, the century of gangsters and cowboys.
Characteristic feature of every western is feeling of freedom, independence, wilfulness and rebel spirit. Typical main character of the western is so-called good-bad guy, usually cowboy or gunslinger who wanders around the Wild West searching for something very special (every western's main hero has its own peculiar "something very special") and on his way searching for something special he has time to save someone or help someone. Sceneries of westerns usually describe rough terrain full of danger, rocks, cactuses and bad-guys. The tumbleweed is a component that present in every western, one can't imagine or recollect a single western where there is no tumbleweed. For example as the character arrive to some abandon place where no one is living, or when the bad guy arrives to some city and everyone has already hide in order to avoid the unpleasant meeting view, no doubt, will see the following scene: dummy houses and pubs and the tumbleweed rolling over the dummy streets, it rolls to character's boot and than camera slowly ups to his face. No doubt he will have a three-day bristle, screwed up eyes, stern eye-look and absolutely calm aspect.
According to researches of some western specialists image of tumbleweed is rather symbolic and mat not be abolished. As it was written before westerns are movies of rebel, independent spirit of freedom, and the tumbleweed is an herbal symbol of that freedom, it contains in itself all the main features of the character. The main character of western is a freedom-loving gunslinger who is likelihood came from nowhere and goes to his dream, but no one knows where that dream is, and the tumbleweed also appears from nowhere as it's desert all-around, it appears from nowhere and rolls away to nowhere after its appearance at the scene.