Valentin:
>>>The current generation has more a sense of entitlement. I deserve to be happy?
Yeah, that too.
To which I would add in reference to the decline of the cowboy and Western genre movies in U.S. Cinema: an archetypal hero needs a archetypal villain. In the last half century, thanks to demystification of how the American West was settled by Europeans, the Western genre has lost its default, go-to villain, the Native American. Thank god and about damn time!
And yet, Native Americans are mostly marginalized in current movies about the West (few as they are) . Modern writers seem either unaware of their importance and influence or unsure of how to portray them.
So that leaves Big Bad Business (greedy bankers, ruthless railroad owners) and the Lawless Predatory Gang (cattle rustlers, bandits) to answer casting calls for villains.