西部片
horse opera //
→same aswestern
a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
同义词： Western
...漫画、杂志、电视、电影中都出现这类西部 82 故事，20世纪四五十年代很多西部小说被改编成广 播剧或者电影西部片（horse opera）。（Jones，1978： 164—65）在传统的西部故事里，西部边疆是“美国 男性气概的天然制造厂”，以掠夺土地、积累国家财 富为核心，...
But Liu aside, there isn't a lot of glamour for the 45-year-old Chan in this East-meets-West horse opera.
除了刘以外，45岁的成龙在这部马上驰骋中西结合的戏中并没有太多的艳遇。
The opera features a tableau following big wins at the horse races and a night of domestic drama, complete with gunfire, in the Clinton household.
全剧突出表现生动的场景，包括在赛马中的大胜，夜晚克林顿家中的闹剧，连同炮火之声。
and "A Night at the Opera." In "Horse Feathers,"
VOA : special.2009.07.19
The safest thing one could say about "Django Unchained" is that it finds Quentin Tarantino hurtling over the top yet again by juxtaposing the horrors of slavery with an absurdist, horse-opera buffa plot that quotes from all sorts of movies, including his own, with special emphasis on spaghetti westerns.
WSJ: Joe Morgenstern Reviews Django Unchained and Promised Land