Bob described Westerns as having a "limited scope of available plots." This is the genre that produced Roy Rogers, The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy, and The Good the Bad and the Ugly. That's without even getting to deconstructions like Unforgiven (and, arguably, High Noon) and comedies like Blazing Saddles. Film expert, everyone.
Also, his tossing off phrases like "operatic melodrama tradition" as if he has the faintest fucking idea what he's talking about makes me want to strangle him with my Eng Lit degree.