Gunfighter

In the early days, Will explains how he and his partner Ned had a violent path of destruction and murder as gunfighters. He later says that he has killed “everything that walks or crawls at one time or another” including women and children. When he drank he became more violent, and when violence ensnared him, he had no mercy for really anything. When Will's best…

disfigured by the local town gang. William has been living on a farm, raising his two children, a boy and a girl. His wife died in the year 1878 and he’s not as young as he used to be. Munny’s life was not totally virtuous, he was a thief and a gunfighter; he had killed a lot of people in his day with his friend Ned Logan portrayed by Morgan Freeman. One day a boy rides up to Munny talking about how a women got cut up by couple of cowboys and he looking to go and kill them but he needs help. …

Many readers that love the western writing genre can argue that Zane Grey is one of the bestselling western writers of all time. His novels The Lone Star Ranger and The Spirit of the Border are two examples of this. In these two novels Grey does a good job at showing the differences of the west during two different time periods when Native Americans roamed the lands and when cowboys and outlaws ruled the west. When examining the two novels, it will show the stereotypical views of the west,…

When, or if a movie genre gets popular enough, it has the authority to change and transform itself into something different. For over a hundred years the “Western” style of film has cemented itself as a hollywood staple, but has the exhaustion of its content pushed the limits of what it means to be a western? To accurately depict what it means to be considered a true Western, we first must reference the most notorious movies it has to offer; Shane, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. These…

Liberty Valence. Random Stoddard is an attorney of law from the East, who went to the West convinced that he could administer justice through the knowledge of law and his books. Tom Doniphon is the “good” Westerner, who is known for his skills as a gunfighter and Liberty Valance is the “bad”…

Grisel Alvarado Ms. Ahonen English 1302 13 Abril 2016 Pancho Villa Pancho Villa grew up in a very poor family and experienced the difficulties of life at a very young age. After losing his dad, Villa became the head of the household at only 15 years of age. Even though Villa was a fugitive and outlaw, he was still seen as a historical person due to the war tactics that he used during the time period. Villa was a national hero and a prominent figure to many Mexicans, he had become a runner of…

Shane Quote: “I’ve heard you’re a low-down Yankee Liar” The tale of a gunfighter who, no matter how hard he tries, can’t escape trouble, Shane is the quintessential Western. A quiet movie overall, the final gunfight is sheer dynamite. Tense in built up and lightning fast in action, the 3-against-1 shootout is heart racing and iconic. The speed of the fight (gunfights then and now are typically quick affairs) keeps the scene grounded, as does Shane getting mortally wounded. The movie earns…

On 02 March 2002, Operation Anaconda launched. The primary objective was total destruction of the Taliban an al Qaeda that have bedded into the Shah-i-Kot Valley in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. US Special Operation Forces (SOF) had been closely monitoring for over a month that a large population of Taliban fighters where bedded in the valley. In February, the order came down to the Afghanistan ground force commander MG Hagenback to clear out the evident…

Finally, Platoon serves as a nightmarish vehicle into the brutal experience of the Vietnam Hell. Historical Context and Platoon As American involvement in Vietnam dragged on through the late 1960’s and the body count spiraled upward, morale sagged in many sectors of the U.S. military. Many units suffered from internal tensions, the crippling and terrifying environment, drug use, unwillingness to fight, and the sense that the war was for nothing. Also, there was no doubt that battlefield…

of understanding what the frontier truly was, and conceptualizing the hidden savagery (Native Americans) that lived within. These myths and thought processes as described by Richard Slotkin, a cultural critic and historian, whose Journal titled Gunfighter Nation; the Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century…