1. turn your western into a love story . 2. have the protagonist a hired gun that rid into town from the dusty wasteland and be hire a a marshall to take on a local cattle rustler who live above the law fall in love with the town whore . 3. fill an otherwise cliché and paint by number and fill in the blank and textbook story of good vs. bad with pointless and extended musing on the nature of love and romance a la just about any chick flick you can waste time and money seeing . and and presto . there you have it . you have just ruin your first western arguably the easy movie genre to produce and direct and star in and and market . congratulation and ed harris . you take high plain drifter and you ruin it .