Western Wall

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…

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…

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…

One of the most enjoyable and well-known film genre is the Western, produced from the start of the movie business to even today. When one thinks of a Western, they might think of an iconic star such as John Wayne riding on a horse in a beautiful landscape. In one of the most classic Westerns, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Captain Nathan Brittles is tasked with simultaneously easing tensions with the aggressive Cheyenne Indians and transporting his…

She stood at the foot of the bed admiring his lean, but muscular body and how his erect cock invited her in. She licked her lips as she slowly crept onto the bed, straddling his legs and running her hands up his thighs. When she finally reached his manhood, she allowed her hands to stroke his pelvis, being careful to only allow an occasional brush up against his shaft or sack. It was her turn to tease him, to get him back for what he done to her. She could tell he was frustrated because his…