Western United States

The revisionist western drama begins with cowboys, who look to be “bad”, all meeting up and riding into 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…

it comes to films, I am generally open to almost anything and by almost, I mean, anything with the exception of Westerns. I cannot stand them with everything in my being. None of it makes sense to me, none of it looks real and it just does not appeal to me. Growing up, I seen or should I say, was forced to endure westerns if I wanted to watch television, because my mother was a big western fan. That may be what led to my extreme distaste for them now, having to watch them every day as a child.…

Westerns have come a long way since the silent film days and the original western, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Today, modern technology has allowed westerns to become more thrilling, more daring, and more action packed than ever before, and none of this is more true than for Django Unchained(2012) directed by Quentin Tarantino and the TV show Firefly(2002), created by Joss Whedon. While both embrace new and interesting twists to the genre, both still feature many of the classic themes…

Gizem Kızılcık COMD 322 My Darling Clementine My Darling Clementine (1946), is a Western style of retelling story within shoot-outing at OK Corral. It was directed by John Ford and based on a classic book by Stuart N. Lake. It was transformed from a story by Sam Hellman and it was turned into a screenplay by Samuel G. Engel (also; producer) and Winston Miller. Also, Cyril J. Mockridge made music of the movie. Joseph MacDonald was director of photography and finally,…

The Edge of a Western How does a Western film look when it is written backwards and the themes are put on their head? This is how Jim Jarmusch envisioned his take on the Western when he directed Dead Man. The film is about an ordinary accountant William Blake, played by Johnny Depp, who is traveling to the town of Machine to start a new life. When Blake finds that there is no job for him, a set of unfortunate circumstances forces him into becoming a wanted man. Along with an American Indian…

could be as gripping of a western film as ‘Hell or High Water,’ in today’s pop culture, you would tell me that I was crazy. The stellar performances of two unstoppable bank robbers, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, and a Texas ranger out on his last case before retirement, Jeff Bridges, make this dream a reality. Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, and Chris Pine star in a revolutionary movie that was created to bring back a culture of western films. It is bound to be a classic western heist movie, and might…

One of the greatest myths is; all Cowboys wore cowboy hats, when in reality that isn’t the case. They often wore hats wore hats such as the flat pancake hat or the bowler hat. Another rumor or myth was that all bank robbers such as Black Bart or the Dalton Gang ruled the west. Truth be told is that the towns were so small the Sheriff wouldn’t be very far away, even if the robbers got away with the loot it wouldn’t be but a small fraction of the amount banks today have. More criminals would…

The film, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” directed by Sergio Leone, the father of Spaghetti Westerns, is considered one of the best Westerns of all time. It launched Clint Eastwood into stardom as, “The Man with No Name” also known as Blondie “The Good”, through his interactions with his co-stars Lee Van Cleef, Angel Eyes “The Bad”, and Eli Wallach, Tuco “The Ugly”. The hero here, Blondie, is not the typical hero that you would expect, but through an analysis of several scenes, one begins to…

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…

many characteristics of a classic western. Everything from the horses, bounties, and violence point to this movie being a typical western film. However, because of the abundance of twists and turns it would be considered a revisionist western movie. Despite its few traits of a classic western, everything ranging from the unclear heroes to the absence of typical female roles lead to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly classifying as a revisionist western. A typical western movie has a very distinct…