High Noon

Every story has protagonists choosing between moral issues- issues of right and wrong. Their choice depicts the series of events that take place through out the story. The film and story we experienced in class were some of the first stories to use these themes. They use them similarly and differently making both of these stories great and unique in their own way. In the novel The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell a world class hunter experiences getting hunted after washing up on an island. He is hunted by a narcissistic psychopath who thinks it it okay to hunt and murder men in cold blood. In the film High Noon written by Carl Foreman Will Kane the marshal of the early western town Haleyville feels the need to protect the town…

High Noon is one of the greatest American films of all-time, in fact it was ranked in the top thirty greatest films of all-time. The Most Dangerous Game is a short story, and although you might have not have ever heard of it, it is a great story. In High Noon, the setting is in the middle of nowhere, the main character, Will Kane faces death with nowhere to run. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford, who is the main character, also faces death. The two men have to overcome different obstacles to…

hope of survival. High Noon's main character is Will Kane. Will Kane is a sheriff that has to fight Frank Miller, a criminal, who comes back to seek revenge. Imagine traveling up the Amazon river at night and you hear a gunshot from afar. You want a closer look so your hop on top of the railing of the boat, but by accident you fall into the water. You realize that you are on Ship-Trap island and you meet a friendly stranger that hunts humans. Rainsford is a hunter that is traveling to the…

The stories of Sanger Rainsford from “The Most Dangerous Game” and Will Kane from High Noon are prime examples of quick thinking in adventure stories. They are both about a protagonist who is being hunted by a maniac. Although they both have the same idea around them, there are differences. Them being where the story takes place and patterns that come about within the story. The patterns aren’t very different but you can tell how they are. Both of these stories include a life or death situation…

In many ways it might be hard to see the stories High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" as having many similar parts. High Noon is a movie, and "The Most Dangerous Game" is a short story. Both High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Games" symbols throughout the the story are completely different, their main characters have no where to run, and Kane, High Noons main character and Rainsford, "The Most Dangerous Games" main character are both related to there enemies in the story. The symbols in both…

Changing the Western Hero and Women The hero in the Western is as iconic as apple pie in America (Dirks, part 1). He represents the west and all its mystery. In, film the hero has been represented as the wholesome man with ethics and also the antihero starting in the late fifties with all his gruff and attitude. As Western films progressed, the hero became different. Film viewers were looking for a different kind of hero along with the changing times in America. In Gary Cooper’s character,…

When you are stuck in a difficult situation, you can always find a source of help, whether it is advice from a person or maybe even the Internet. In the end, multiple solutions to resolve the problem are found. Both the film High Noon and the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" happen to not have this in common with you, but they have that in common with each other. High Noon is a film that takes place in a small town, but the people are not very helpful when the time comes. Although, "The…

The movie High Noon portrays the elements of a Greek tragedy. In High Noon, we see a very close relationship between what Aristotle described as the essential elements to a tragedy and what we see unfold throughout the movie. We see all of the six elements; plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song, shown in some form throughout the movie, although, Aristotle says that plot and character are primary, so those will be the two elements of focus. In exploring plot and character, the…

The short story The Most Dangerous Game and the film High Noon can be very similar and different. In both the film and short story it was about a guy and he had to kill the other to survive. They were wrote or directed about ten years apart from each other so they are in the same time frame. They are both action packed and very unpredictable. Even though the two men fought alone they still won the battle The Most Dangerous Game and High Noon both have their differences. For example in High Noon…

The stories High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are very similar. High Noon is about Will Kane a marshal in the old west who is being hunted down by a criminal he arrested in the past. The Most Dangerous Game is about Rainsford the hunter who is going to find out what it is like to be the hunted. Both of these characters will need to fight to survive. These two stories have lots of similarities but they also have differences. The first similarity they have is the setting. "Street from Kane's…