Stagecoach

There is nothing more classical in film then the Western, and no one tackled the Western better than John Ford. Shawn Dwyer a classic movie expert states, “if there was ever a director-actor tandem that defined the Western genre, it was John Ford and John Wayne” (Dwyer 1). His film Stagecoach was the first of it’s kind in the film industry as being the first talking picture in the Western genre. The film included everything known to the classic Western, however, Ford wanted to question some aspects of the genre.What John Ford did to the plot and the character portrayals diverged from the classic Western and subverted some of the themes that were typical in Western books and earlier silent films. John Ford modified the conflict, bend the…

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Stagecoach represents American Indians as noble savages, a typical Hollywood Indian in western movies. A noble savage is a racist term used to describe a character as a wild person who symbolizes the goodness of humanity. American Indians are outsiders who have not been civilized, which is a representation completely stereotyped and inaccurate. The stereotypes were created for the entertainment purposes, yet they were highly fictionalized. For example, people cannot shoot an arrow at a long…

1. One part that I found interesting in Twain’s “Stagecoach Bits” was his description of the mail that was three days late. The amount that was placed not only in the coach with the passengers but also with in various other places besides the roof leaves one to only guess how that coach looked when it was done being loaded. Twain leaves this image of an overstocked coach with barely any room inside as the mail sacks rise to the sky. Secondly, was their snap judgment to strip down to their…

The “Good” vs. “Bad” Girl in Stagecoach In John Ford’s film, Stagecoach, he shows his audience the drastic difference between a lady from the East and a prostitute from the West. When the film opens, the audience meets a proper and well-behaved woman, introduced to us as Lucy Mallory, searching for her husband, “I’ve traveled all the way here from Virginia. I’m determined to get to my husband. I won’t be separated any longer” (Ford, 1939). She quickly shows that she is quite the opposite of…

Waterworld and Stagecoach, two seemingly similar movies with different plots. Both movies are great although waterworld was a bit strange, in its sense of it taking place in a water covered world where there was no land and people inbreeding and eating dirt. Besides that i say that this movie was very strange.The movie Waterworld is a post-apocalyptic story about a mutant named Mariner. As the polar ice-caps in the world have all melted, very little land remains, causing some humans to mutate…

Jennifer Sanchez 2015SP-FILM-280-5062 April 29, 2015 Comparison and contrast of the themes. Both “Stagecoach” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” films are examples of masterpiece cinematography in the genre of western of their era each. Nevertheless, films can hardly be called similar even with having almost the same means of entertaining and story performance. Thus, I would like to start from the definition of classic western. Western is an art direction, common for the United States, it…

DiMitri Smith November 1, 2015 ARTH 110 Stagecoach John Ford’s film “Stagecoach” is about a group of people with different backgrounds, cross paths in a stagecoach on its way to Lordsburg, New Mexico. The group consists of an alcoholic doctor, a run out of town mistress, whiskey salesman, a bank manager turned thief, and sickly wife of a soldier accompanied by a shady man who seems to be charmed by her. Along the way they encounter the infamous escaped convict, Ringo Kid. On the latter half of…

The following essay will compare the cinematic language of the two Western classics Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) while analyzing the claim that both film respectably are pioneers of the Western genre during their times proven on the basis of their original work in editing and narrative, and its influence on other filmmakers. After a brief summary of both movies, I will continue with the analysis of both, in particular with the formal…

The Ringo Kid starts off as a seemingly minor character as his entrance scene starts well into the film. However, the audience is aware of the rumors of the Ringo Kid as a fugitive on the run and also a little of his past story with his quest for vengeance against the Plummer brothers. Moreover, since Marshal Curly decides to join the stagecoach on its journey to Lordsburg, the audience can also glean that the Ringo Kid could potentially pose a threat to the passengers aboard the stagecoach. In…