Western Conference

Western stories share a multitude of themes. The Revenant and The Hateful Eight show themes of violence, and nature. Both films use these themes to show the brutal power of the elements, along with the abusive nature of people. Westerns have a long standing relationship with violence. Violent ideas, and themes help show the power of characters throughout the story. In The Revenant violence is the main drive for Hugh Glass to enact revenge on Fitzgerald. The motivation for Glass to push through…

The Westerns The Genre As a Whole I will be researching how old style westerns have influenced modern day superhero movies from their editing, writing, and their aesthetic appeal. I will be going through the history of westerns as well as discussing what makes a western a western, how they’ve changed through the years, and why they’re still relevant. I will then talk about superhero films and how they have started, their brief history, how they’ve changed, and how westerns have influenced them…

proved to be allies, during World War II. However, as time went on the two countries became increasingly suspicious of one another. Tension between the two countries was so horrible it almost resulted in a nuclear war, especially due to the Yalta Conference, where vague agreements were stated but no real resolve was established. Another important factor that played into the hatred of these two countries was McCarthyism, the passionate hatred of communist. As a result of these factors the…

The Yalta Conference and the Korean War influenced the peacemaking process on American-Soviet relations in the period following World War II. In February 1945, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered together for a peace conference in Yalta, a Soviet city. It was agreed that the Soviet Union should regain some of the Pacific land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War in return for Stalin’s renewed assurance to enter the Pacific war. They also decided on a plan for new…

Yalta Conference in Ukraine which was in February 1945 this was a time were US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill and Russian leader Stalin all sat down for a private meeting and this was done prior to the end of World War II In this meeting,…

Paul Chaat Smith’s essay “The Big Movie,” which appears in The Norton Mix, addresses the question of why western movies portray the American Indian in the manner they do. Smith, who is a member of the Comanche tribe, looks at western films from the perspective of Indians. He provides a brief history of the American western movie, along with historical information about how and why Indians appear as they do in movies. He concludes with the observation that unless they appear within what Smith…

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 bonus points for one of the greatest Western villains of all time. Jack Wilson (Jack Palance) is…

Jarmusch’s film Dead Man (1995) is the departure from a typical western genre turned postmodern shown through cinematic qualities that emphasize a surreal feel and dream-like state throughout. The film is shot in black and white and follows the narrative tale of William Blake (Johnny Depp) a man wanted for the murder of a wealthy mans’ son, after he shot him dead in defense on his first night in the western town named Machine. Blake is met by an out casted Native American who goes by the name…

Zapatistas is a drawing from Jose Clemente Orozco. In this painting all of the of the characters look like they been traveling for a long period of time. It was painted on the year of 1931. All of the characters in the painting look like mexicans on horses. It looks like they are going thru the desert. There are many characters in this painting there are men, women, and horses. There is also a lot of color in this painting also. There is also a lot of dark paints in this painting.…

Over the hill of a small town there is a lone shadow of a man on a horse watching over the town making sure that everything within the town is safe and no bandit is going to raid or rob any of the townsfolks. He is the saver of damsels in distress, the rider of freedom and peace, however this image of the cowboy that so many people have in their minds is not the true cowboy, but an image from popular literature, to films. The real cowboys were the men that would run cattle drives making sure…