Stagecoach Movie Film Analysis

The plot revolves around this back woods, mud filled town in Tennessee at the beginning of the twentieth century. The town is populated by red necked Christians, their preacher, and the overly patriotic

Stagecoach is a western movie that has several features to it. People do things for pride and protection. People can come together at the end and work together. In this film, these two features are portrayed in various parts of the movie. This film touches upon pride. People are prideful of what they do or have done. A shotgun person was needed and Curly took the job. He is a prideful sheriff that decided to take shotgun when no one else wanted to. His role in the film can be portrayed bigger. He represents what the law stands for. People like Curly have great pride for what they stand for. This film also shows how someone stays and protects the people in need. Ringo could have escaped and be free. He noticed that the rest of the group were

The setting of the story is the family is in an old country house back in the day and it´s a very old western style. The characters in the movie are

“You’ve called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it,” shouted Wyatt Earp to the cowboys, in the movie about his life, Tombstone. As you can tell by Wyatt Earp’s famous quote, Tombstone is a violent, interesting, and crazy movie. Tombstone is a movie full of fighting, death, reckless cowboys, guns, and more, in the city of Tombstone. It is attention grabbing, and once you start watching it, you won’t ever want to stop. Although Tombstone is usually upbeat and full of fighting, it does have sad moments. Overall, this movie is about Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday’s crazy experiences and adventures in Tombstone, Arizona.

Lonesome Dove is a story in the western genre written by Larry McMurty. The book was published in 1985 and was the first book of a tetralogy, but third in chronology. The book is about a strenuous cattle drive from Texas to Montana. Lonesome Dove was a wholesome and interesting book that engages your curiosity from the beginning to the end. In the beginning of the story they are in a small south Texas town called lonesome Dove, where the two main characters Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call had settled down and started a livery stable after being famous Texas rangers. The journey starts off after Jake Spoon rides into town talking about Montana and the untapped potential. That is what sets them off on their journey driving cattle from Texas to Montana. As their journey began they had many dilemmas, but I would say their first dilemma was the death of Sean O’Brien a young Irish man found with his brother Allen O’Brien when they collected the cattle for the drive. That part of the story was the first major event of the story driving fear in many of the crew. As the drive went north, so did Jake spoon, who brought along a woman by the name of Lorena Wood. Lorena is a major character in the story as she is a love interest of both Augustus McCrae, Jake Spoon ,and desired by many. The story had an interesting offshoot that involved a sheriff from fort smith, Arkansas by the name of July Johnson. This story begins with Jake Spoon who was in fort smith gambling when he got into a

In 1962, the movie, Ride the High Country directed by, Sam Pechkinpah, Steve Judd takes along one of his partners that he has known for years to a job delivering gold for a bank as a bank guard. His partner insists on taking a friend that, Steve has never met before. This man is young and naïve. During the journey partner, Gill Westrum convinces him to take the money because it’s the most money they have ever had. Steve Judd, never leaves the side of good during the journey to deliver the gold. As many turning points occur tension is created when he discovers that his partner and his friend want the gold for themselves, and man vs man conflict is created as the make their way through, The High Country.

Over the decades there has been an allure to the Western, no matter what form it is enjoyed. A good story about the misunderstood hero winning the day and riding off into the sunset never seems to stop bringing in the audiences. What really was the attraction of the Western in its heyday? From the early nineteenth century into the the 1950s, the Western attracted many readers and viewers to its genre. Sure there was gunfights, cowboys and Indians fighting over what each wanted from this harsh landscape that was the west. People were entranced by the mystery of the land that wanted to be tamed, or not. In all this mixture of heroes saving the town among wagon trains rolling over the plains, there was something else brewing in American minds. There were changes going on in America during the rise of the Western. Industrialization and social changes such as the women’s suffrage movement had citizens looking for a new frontier to get answers from. The west offered the change in scenery, and an untouched society, and the freedom to reinvent oneself. Americans were seeing in the Western a way back to simpler times or a vision of breaking away from society and back to nature.

Everyone has heard, “Remember the Alamo”, but the Alamo remembered today is not reality. Rather than seeing the Alamo as a symbol of Texas independence or American spirit, Richard Flores contends that the resurrection of the Alamo in the 1880s by Anglos was about social class and racial identity. To prove his argument, Flores presents the actual history of the Alamo, compares two women who influenced the Alamo—Clara Driscoll and Adina De Zavala, and analyzes the representations of the Alamo in film. Flores structures his argument by first presenting a social theory to explain why and when this occurred and then presents his evidence. In the greater context, Flores’s work attempts to explain the history of Anglo and Tejano relations in

Every since John Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach, the West has been portrayed in art, entertainment, and literature as a desolate arid landscape of mountains and deserts. The story or movie backdrop was usually set in America’s colonial era and often included small frontier towns with saloons, the local jail, and ranches on the outskirts of town. The main characters were ranchers, handsome gun slinging wayward cowboys donning Stetsons, savage Indians raging havoc against settlers, and outlaw gangs roaming the prairies holding up banks and railroads. Every story pretty much had a similar plot; the pursuit of wrongdoers, lawmen and bounty hunters set on catching that elusive bad guy, guns and gunfights, and the humble settlers protecting his family and land. The heroes that

Let me first begin by saying I am a huge sports fan. I played almost every sport growing up and have always loved watching sports, in particular college basketball and any type of football. I saw Hoosiers a few times growing up and enjoyed it every time. In my opinion it is one of the greatest sports movies of all time. The acting of Gene Hackman is definitely an Oscar winning performance. Even though this is not based on a true story it is very believable to me that this event could have occurred, and for that reason it enhances the emotion I feel when they fight through diversity and win the state championship. All of the above are the reasons I chose this film, I knew I would

The Chandlers farm eighty acres of cotton that they rent, and when the cotton is ready they hire an abundance of Mexicans with an terrifying looking individual called “Cowboy” and also a family from the Ozarks also referred to as “hill people” that included a teenage girl, her

Nebraska is a film about the journey of a spiritually broken old man, who receives a letter from a publishing house stating he has won a million dollars. The film chronicles Woody Grant’s quixotic road trip with his son David as his companion. The main character, Woody Grant embarks on his quest to collect what he believes is a winning prize in Lincoln, Nebraska, but his wife Kate believes he is too old and confused to handle anything anymore, including the truth about his prize. Kate is cynical and crude in her way of expressing affection towards Woody. His son Ross, agrees with his mother and believes his father needs to be placed in an assisted living facility due to his disheveled appearance and unpredictable behavior.

On February 4, 1974, a director by the name of Mel Brooks produce a very entertaining Western film “Blazing Saddles”, starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. The movie took place in a town from the Old West scenery in a town called Rock Ridge. In the town a man by the Hedley Lamarr a shady land speculator need to have a railroad that runs through the town of Rock Ridge, but to have the railroad run through the town he need to figure out a way to get the, residents out of the town.

America in the 1960’s was a time of turbulence and chaos. A nation divided in the midst of the counterculture movement that was sparked by a generational split and fueled by the Vietnam War, America was struggling for change. The New Hollywood took these issues into account and translated them onscreen. Films of the New Hollywood centered around the protagonist, often depicting them as an anti-hero, who suffered from alienation and conflict within society. In the film ‘Easy Rider’ these themes are exemplified through its reinvention of the Western genre. Dennis Hopper uses this film as a way to convey ideas of the Western by placing into a modern setting that embodies the feeling of 1960’s America.

The characteristics, features and conventions of Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) allow this film to fit directly under the title of Classical Hollywood cinema. The film uses a few main characters that the audience members get to know well and create their own feelings for. In Stagecoach, there are nine main characters that the audience gets to know well, Dallas, Ringo Kid, Buck, Hatfield, Doc Boone, Lucy Mallory, Curley, Gatewood and the lieutenant. These characters are consistent throughout the story and the audience members begin to understand them as the story develops.