Western Hockey League

Many boys growing up playing hockey dreamed of becoming pro hockey players, playing in the National Hockey League (NHL) and eventually winning the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the NHL. Unlike them, girls who grew up playing hockey played to increase their chances on being able to go to college on a scholarship or maybe play in the Olympics, if they were lucky. Many of these girls saw their hockey careers end after they graduated college. A few of the lucky ones, who were skilled…

In the 1870s and 1880s hockey in Canada was blooming. At first, hockey was just the winter version of lacrosse made to keep lacrosse players busy during the winter, but soon it was being played all over the country. After years of being in Canada it eventually moved to the United States. In the 1800s, hockey was a very different sport. There were no ice-making machines, so game were played outside where cold weather froze rivers and ponds that they could play on. Today, what would be called…

On Saturdays, I sometimes go to watch my dad, and his brothers play hockey. It is often competitive and exciting as it is a highly energetic and fast paced sport. I really like to go and see them play. My mom and I watch from the stands while they skate back and forth across the ice trying to score a goal into the other team's net. My dad has taught me about the game. I know that there are five players per team on the ice. The players will run into or hit as they say another player to off set…

Kristaps Porzingis will still be a Knick, for now. The New York Knicks picked up the 2018-2019 team option on the 22-year old power forward/center from Latvia. But words are now spreading that he was almost traded by former Knicks president Phil Jackson for the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NBA draft in order to get point guard Lonzo Ball. The Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis as their fourth overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. Many basketball enthusiasts were in disbelief and even disagree with…

Western’s a genre with a purpose For almost as long as the medium of filmmaking has existed so too has the Western first showcased in Edwin S. Porter film The Great Train Robbery. Though overall a simple film in retrospect the way in which it pushed the medium forward was revolutionary in containing a narrative. Cowboys are the initial American heroes of filmmaking which all others pull from; Westerns as a male focused genre the central genre trope of masculinity have been constructed on a…

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…

this obsession with the past can be seen at the very beginning of the film as we follow a tumbling tumbleweed, an iconic symbol of the old west, as it tumbles through the California desert. An old Gene Autry song evokes nostalgic memories of old westerns as we hear a voice over from narrator Sam Elliot, known as the Stranger, which in tone and word choice is very reminiscent…

Western Film “For over forty years, from 1926 to 1967, Hollywood produced more Westerns than any other kind of film” (pg.243). The western film I chose was one of Sergio Leone’s famous trilogies, which included A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. These are known as Spaghetti Westerns. The film The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly takes place during the American Civil War and follows three men on the hunt for Confederate gold. Many westerns focus…

The Searchers is a “classic” western. It tells the story of Ethan Edwards who is accompanied by his nephew Martin Pawley and their five-year-long search to find his niece after she is captured and her family killed by the Comanche Indians. Little Big Man is a “revisionist” western. It tells the story of Jack Crabbe, a 121-year-old man asked to tell his story about his life, which includes being captured and raised by the Indians and living in a white society with a variety of jobs leading him to…

type of lighting has assessed the impact of high contrast and very deep shadows in many of the indoor/outdoor scenes to establish the western theme. ◦What are the benefits of the style of lighting used? The benefits of the lighting style used to enhance the hardness of life on the Western frontier, therefore, giving the movie viewers a real sense of the western time and its locations. For example, in the scene inside the cabin was dusk outside and little lighting is used as they bolted…