Romero’s interest in the look and culture of cowboys and their Western regalia sprouted when he was a boy, and he shared a love for the vintage film archetype with his younger brothers. “It's so interesting that all those movies that made such an impression on me as a young man were movies that were actually made in the thirties in Hollywood. So it's interesting that we grew up in the fifties watching cowboy movies from the thirties, because [they] were rehashed. That was the first recycling of a culture, I think, in our society. Because that's what TV does, in a sense-or did, you know?”