Seven Men From Now

Throughout our country’s history there have been many examples of fraud and scandal. One of the most well-known scandals of our century is the 1919 Chicago White Sox Scandal. The movie “Eight Men Out” shows us what really happened throughout the 1919 baseball season with the Chicago White Sox. The Chicago White Sox were a Major League Baseball organization who was run by their penny-pinching owner, Charles Comiskey. He has been under -paying his players, despite the fact that they were the clear favorite to win the 1919 World Series. As a result, the players decide to come up with a plan to get back at their cheap owner.

According to the film critic, Phillip French, “The Western has always been about America rewriting and reinterpreting her own past,” if this is indeed the case, then the two most popular Westerns of the early 1990s reveal that many Americans had rejected the traditional interpretation of the Old West. The critically and commercially successful, Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven, repudiated the patriotic frontier myth that had characterised the Western when it was the preeminent genre in American cinema. Informed by new Western historiography, itself an expression of political concerns that had been moving into the American mainstream since the 1960s, the movies display a complex and nuanced understanding of the frontier experience. Dances with Wolves rejected the traditional narrative of the inherent superiority of the Anglo-American hero conquering both Native Americans and the wilderness, and also focused on the environmental destruction that accompanied the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Unforgiven would similarly reject the frontier myth, replacing the democratic, civilised frontier town, with a brutal regime in which white men’s property rights prevail over any sense of justice. The film is noted for its self-reflexive nature, with a writer documenting and embellishing the tales of the Old West before the viewer’s eyes. This self-reflexion indicates that Americans were re-evaluating the myths of the frontier, and seeing them for what they were, creations by the

Clint Eastwood’s, Unforgiven, represents a “new” type of Western that defies the formula previously used to create traditional Western films. Unlike Shane, a film with a clear-cut threat to the community, endangering all homesteaders, a lack of defense, creating an unfair advantage to the threat imposed, and a true hero, one who saves the day and must willingly return to where he came from, Unforgiven is a Western that is told through a different formula. Eastwood tackles this revisionist piece and lacks the three basic components to any classic Western film – a threat, lack of defense, and a hero.

This movie was pleasantly surprising. It was an enjoyable watch and told a story that kept the plot line and details close to the real history of the Sioux Indians’ lives, starting with The Battle at Little Big Horn.

The western movie I pick is John Ford’s movie Stagecoach (1939). The movie is about a group of people traveling together by stagecoach from the town Tonto to Lordsburg. The people traveling together are a diverse group of people. All of them have the specific motivation for going, but they all share the same goal reaching to Lordsburg. The characters are Dallas who’s a prostitute, Mrs. Lucy Mallory who is the wife of the Army Cavalry officer, Ellsworth Henry Gatewood who is a banker, Hatfield who is a gambler, Samuel Peacock who is whiskey salesman, Doc Josiah Boone who is a alcoholic doctor, Buck Rickabaugh who is a stage driver, Marshal Curley Wilcox who is a marshal riding shotgun, and Ringo Kid who is an escaped outlaw.

And by Willie giving the Director position to Adam she did not have to worry about her brother’s unhappiness with his work life because he will be helping the less fortunate. What back fired was that Adam killed himself because he felt as though he was not important and he was not cable of doing things for himself because Annie slept with Willie. Trying to improve on the Stanton families lives with the affair actually did the opposite. Annie’s plan to sleep her way into getting what she wanted pushed her brother over the edge, oppose to talking him off of it as she meant to

Survivors guilt.... An emotion brought on by a traumatic experience. Thing like watching a fellow soldier or close friend die. In the story, “ The Seventh man” The narrator Goes through watching the death of his best friend K. This experience bring on survivor's guilt talked about in the story “The Moral logic of survivor's guilt.” Even though the narrator of the story had watched K die, he should have been able to forgive himself. Although there is a cost to surviving, no matter what he told himself it was not his fault that K had died so tragically.

On average Japan is severely hit with three typhoons a year. In "The Seventh Man" the main character the seventh man was ten years old and living in a seaside town in Japan. The seventh man lost his nine year old best friend to one of these typhoons. He was there and watched as his best friend K. was carried away by a wave. The death of K. was not the seventh man's fault therefore he should not have survivor guilt.

Overall I found the movie to be quite interesting and exciting at times but a bit slow in others. The story itself was very clear to me and didn’t cause any confusion. It had a good flow also, just as you were on the verge of falling into boredom with a scene they switched it up on you to keep you

How would you feel if I told you women had more of a hand in setting the Wild West than you have been lead to believe? How would you feel if you knew many of those women were prostitutes? Like a majority of people my views of the Wild West originally stemmed from the old Westerns I used to watch with my family. I never paid a second glance to the women in those stories for they all seemed the same. Just some saloon girl hussies with a tendency to be damsels in distress but after seeing a video from the Adam Ruins Everything series my views have changed.

The film Seven Samurai is about a village of farmers who have repeatedly suffered yearly raids by a group of merciless bandits. These bandits steal from the farmers and kidnap the women. Unable to protect themselves, the farmers decide to hire a samurai to do the job for them. This changes the course of their lives in numerous ways.

Should the narrator of “The Seventh Man’ forgive himself for his failure of saving K?

Ford’s Stagecoach is an epic and revolutionary approach that displays the desert terrain and western inhabitant’s struggles. Stagecoach follows the lives of seven strangers in their attempt to arrive to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Each of these characters reflects the various types of people found in the western world. The film is laced with many American ideals of the time such as xenophobia, chivalry, the conventional standards of women, and much more. Stagecoach defies the conventional western film because it is no longer just men in a desert terrain with rifles.

All and all, I would state one should read a history book about The West before watching Tombstone, because most movie western make lawmen and outlaws larger than life. Many people love Jesse James for his story, but he was still bank robber, and killed people. Such movies as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid also made the outlaws into heroes. One could say this is a great movie, because he ties in what we learned, and also gives us two major climaxes in the movie. Still today, Tombstone is still a successful movie.

Survivor’s guilt is a terrifying feeling that a survivor can never forget. The feeling in which a person feels horrible for surviving a traumatic event when others, unfortunately, do not. A feeling like this usually takes place in the mind of a soldier, but not always. In this case, survivor’s guilt takes place in the mind of the Seventh Man. The short story “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, the narrator was put in a terrifying situation where a huge wave sweeps away his best friend K. The Seventh Man was in pure shock and frozen with fear. Leaving his friend K behind, he bolted for safety and after this event he lived with the guilt for many years. The Seventh Man should forgive himself for his failure to save K because first of all, his instincts told him to run away from the giant wave heading his way. Second of all, K was not mad at him for doing what he thought was best. Lastly, one of the steps on the road to recovery from a traumatic event is forgiving yourself.