The first major Hollywood film he showed was the Western "Tombstone, " starring Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell.
He mocked the musical -- and Hitler --in The Producers, the western in Blazing Saddles, and the horror film in Young Frankenstein.
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Kevin Costner revitalised the Western genre when his 1991 film Dances with Wolves won the best picture Oscar.
Those who knew Gaspers say he shared the quiet confidence of the characters played by those Western film stars.
And although the influx of western sunbirds is turning the city into a giant outdoor film set, the indoors infrastructure is shabby.
Director Ram Gopal Verma seems to agree with this contention - he has embarked on the mother of all remakes, a reversion of the 1975 blockbuster hit Sholay (Flames), a star studded curry-western which ran for years in the theatres and became the most iconic Bollywood film ever made.
Among the most recent videos to be shot include Liverpool electronic pop band Ladytron's film at a 5, 000-year-old site on the Western Isles.
Like when he commits the Western alliance to be the world's policeman, as he does at the film's outset, without alerting his national security advisor beforehand.
Mumbai is the glittering epicentre of India's gargantuan Hindi-language film industry, and they are often looking for Western extras.
At last year's Karlovy Vary film festival, the Czech spa town hosted a two-day seminar on Kazakh films which reignited western appreciation.
Film fans' favourite Quentin Tarantino also celebrated as he picked up the original screenplay Bafta for his western slavery epic, Django Unchained.
It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.
Even so, the region's film industry still has a long way to go before it can match the scale and reach of its Western rivals.
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