Well, I have used quotation marks for the word “real”, which indicates that the term “real west” is quite problematic. There is at best an idea of what the real west might have looked like, and in Ride the High Country Peckinpah presents a changed west which he contrasts with the memories of an older west, which maybe never was like McRea is imagining it. And this changed west is then only Peckinpah’s conception of the real west.
My assume is of course that Lordradish is looking for a western which tries to have a more “realistic” look at the west, or which confronts a different west with the mythological west (Like High Country or Liberty Valance). A more revisionist type of western.
And for this the twilight westerns about the destroying of the west, or a SW which is situated in a destroyed west, or one of these 70s westerns which are trying to show a “realistic” west (like Bad Company) are perfect to show how the western genre has developed in contrast to the old mythological westerns he is searching for in his film #1.
And I don’t think that deconstructing a genre is necessarily the same as Derrida’s philosophical ideas of deconstruction. But maybe I’m wrong.