High Noon

Both the film, High Noon, and the story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” share a very similar setting that affects the course of the stories. “Near a landmark of some kind-a tree or an outcropping of a rock-a man on a horseback awaits”(Foreman 288). This quote is trying to demonstrate how the closest object, feature of a landmark or town of Hadleyville is a tree, which goes to show how detached from society the setting of High Noon is. “His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau: it…

branches blown by the stiff wind. If you can relate to this, I'm sure you will understand the tough loneliness of the main characters in both High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game." They both depict characters fighting to achieve something mostly on their own. Although they have the same underlying isolation, they both come in different ways. In the movie High Noon, the marshal of Hadleyville, Will Kane, fights alone to stop an old foe that he sent up. Although he is considered the best marshal…

Have you ever thought that two stories have things different, yet have something in common? In the story High Noon A retired Marshal has to save his town from a man who wants him dead. The Most Dangerous Game tells a tale of a hunter who leans what it means to be hunted. Both of these characters and the settings that they are in are different, but the conflicts that they have to deal with are the same. We can see those differences and similarities vividly throughout each tale. In both stories…

town, as a gang, on their horses. The film then shows us a man and woman getting married, also finding out the man is a deputy. Will Kane, the deputy, previously locked away Frank Miller, the outlaw, for a crime he was supposed to be killed for. High Noon is filmed in real time, the audience only know as much as the characters because everything is portrayed at the same speed between viewers and characters. There is not a narrator, viewers can listen to and find out what is happening or any…

High Noon is a transitional plot, and it also gives a dreadful image of society. In transitional plot, the conflict is between the hero and society instead of the villains. Society hates the hero and wants to drive him out. However, in High Noon, the reason that the community wants to extrude Will is unreasonable. As a marshal, Will fulfills his duties to protect the town, so he brought Miller to justice. Unfortunately, Miller is released by an unspecified legal technicality. Will has planned to…

Who are the Antagonists in High Noon and Unforgiven High Noon and Unforgiven are films set in the Western culture depicting the livelihood of people in Hadleyville and Big Whisky respectively. The main antagonist in Unforgiven is the cowboys who decided to cut up a prostitute for having laughed at one of them for having a small penis. Their actions are what led to the other prostitute’s decision to put a bounty in their head. In High Noon, the main antagonist is Frank Miller. He was an outlaw…

The 2 stories High Noon and “The Most Dangerous Game” have many similarities and differences. The movie High Noon is about a Marshal of a town just trying to take responsibility for his town while facing many other conflicts going on around him, and “The Most Dangerous Game” is about a man playing a deathly game to determine if he lives or dies. Although the short story and movie are similar if you’re looking at character and conflict, they happen to be very different when it comes to the…

The story The Most Dangerous Game and the movie High Noon are very much alike and have some differences. The main characters are alike in some ways. The setting is located differently but has a major impact on both stories. Both stories are also in the same time period in the early 1900s. These stories having many things alike, such as the characters and the setting, and many differences like the plot. In both stories the characters have many similarities. They are both facing life or death…

The dreadful feeling of being hunted. The struggle to stay alive. High Noon, a movie taking place in Old Western times where a notorious murderer comes back to town to seek revenge on the marshal. The Most Dangerous Game, a brilliant short story about a world renowned hunter falling off of his yacht and taking shore on a remote island where he finds a strange man that hunts the most cunning animal there is—humans. Although High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are different, they are strikingly…

gets stranded on an island, and learns what it means to be hunted. In the film, High Noon by Carl Foreman, the skilled Marshall has to protect himself and the town from a man and his posse seeking revenge. In both the film and the text, the main characters and conflicts are similar; however the settings are vastly different which affect how the course of events play out. Will Kane, the main character in High Noon, is an experienced Marshall who has the perseverance and strong willed…