Clint Eastwood

Europeans assuming Indian identities for rituals and how this often displaced Native Americans. The concept of displacement of the Native Americans that Deloria explains mirrors the shift that Ira Hayes experiences as a Native American soldier in Clint Eastwood’s film Flags of Our Fathers. Though the time periods are extremely far apart, the sense of Native American displacement as the result of white Americans in the film echoes that in Deloria’s writing. Deloria points out the ways in which…

Movies such as the Back to the Future trilogy contain many life twisting themes within the story. Throughout the three films BTTF I, BTTF II, and BTTF III; there are dozens of possible themes that could be drawn from the story-line. All three films inter connect with one another and have some of their own themes and themes that were created amongst all three films. Back to the Future themes tend to be generally about average life things and what people wish they could do. Themes that are most…

Changeling is a Clint Eastwood movie that took place in the 1920’s in Los Angles, California. This film is based off of the true story known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. Overall, the movie for the most part, accurately portrayed the actual event. However, there were some minor details that were not mentioned in the film. In the actual event, Gordon Stewart Northcott kidnapped, sexually abused, and violently murdered, at least three, and possibly as many as twenty young males. Of those…

Crash is a tremendous crime drama, capturing the roots of racial tensions in the greater Los Angeles region post Rodney King beating and 9/11 era. Crash has an R rating due to its strong language and violence. The official running time of Crash is 112 minutes. Bulls Eye’s entertainment was the leading production company for the film and Lion’s Gate lead the charge in distributing the movie throughout the United States. Crash’s screenplay was written by Paul Haggis as well as Bobby Moresco,…

Western being a genre itself has subgenres. The major common subgenres are pre-classic, classic, spaghetti and revisionist. Western movies, regardless of what subgenre, had a similar major attribute, which included; Narratives that took after a mission that the legend needed to partake in-characters, mostly males who isolate themselves from whatever remains of human advancement by having an unmatched level of mental/physical durability and chivalry settings in normal settings, for example,…

Revised Western Essay The standpoint of race, women, and violence have been shown a lot in the revisionist Western story, Unforgiven. Legendary actors Clint Eastwood (Will Munny), and Morgan Freeman (Ned Logan) take on the rolls of old retired gunslingers trying to finish one last job. The first thing noticed about Ned Logan is that he’s colored, which is kind of a big thing at that time; having a colored person play a decently big role in a Westen was practically unheard of. Throughout…

The film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is an outstanding film that depicts many characteristics of a classic western. Everything from the horses, bounties, and violence point to this movie being a typical western film. However, because of the abundance of twists and turns it would be considered a revisionist western movie. Despite its few traits of a classic western, everything ranging from the unclear heroes to the absence of typical female roles lead to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…

named Nelson Mandela, when he was put in jail for 27 years of his life, then eventually being released. He even became president and ended apartheid, while the blacks gained the same rights as the whites. This movie was directed by a man named Dir Clint Eastwood. The production company were Perf, Matt Damon. Morgan Freeman played as Nelson Mandela. The Warner Brothers were also included in Invictus. This movie was published in 2009 on Dvd. They planned the start of the movie to be taking place…

INTRODUCTION The act of crime is brought about by breaking the law enforced by the government thus, there is violation of rights entitled to individuals and disruptions of well-being (Brown et al. 2013: 20). The duty of a law enforcement officer is to eradicate crime in a society, it’s to promote peace and ensure safety within a society. Additionally, law enforcement officers are normally seen as law abiding citizens who are tasked with implementing the laws at all jurisdictional levels (Otu…

Probably the most significant myth in American culture is that the west lives on in the American imagination. Clint Eastwood has ensured that the American people do not forget how the West was occupied in his western films. In most western movies we see a lonely man moving west, perhaps running away from the law, stopping at the only saloon in a very small town that perhaps has a barber shop, a bank, and a hotel where the prostitutes carry on with their business and on occasion, a gun fight out…