Idea for a Movie

THE TALL MAN
a myth of the west

A lousy mayor and the town's newsperson face off in a showdown. Everything is in fluid, dusty slow motion. We hear each click of the cogs in the town's clock as if they were the slow declaration that many seconds have gone by. Every click we cut between the two men standing off. Click. Click. Click.
Flashbacks tell us how we got there in the first place. They tell the story of the lousy mayor and his lousy brain trust. Like a series of short stories. At the end of every arc, we cut to the slow motion stand off, each time introducing a townsperson. They each have their own arc, their own reason to root for one or the other. Click. Click. Click.
The climax. The clicks turn into a slow whirrrrrr and the first toll of the noon bell. They fire...