I'm holding out hope for Scott, but…yeah, when I think of a Western setting, I think of buttes and mesas and cacti.

Morricone himself said the American press mistranslated what he'd said and was making a mountain out of a molehill.

Yeah, you're on to something when you brought up "The Searchers". Even though much is always made about how anti-racist that movie is, and how it condemns Ethan's bigotry, etc…the simple fact is, the Comanches in the movie are either clear-cut villains (Scar and his crew) or "cute" little goofballs (the "squaw" named…